Carlu Carter - Clippings

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Carlu Carter - Clippings

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14 THE HERALD , MONTREAL , TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 16 , * Pat Pearce STAGE , SCREEN , RADIO . TV HER MAJESTY'S 1 ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET OF CANADA Von Gencsy and Jean Stoneham ( until Saturday ) . With Arnold Spohr , Eva The lively Royal Winnipeg Ballet came to Her Majesty's last night to provide a stimulating opening evening . It has come a long way since those not - so - long - ago days of the early tours . It is now a thoroughly accontplished company , well dressed , set and trained , and full of the vigor and intriging suggestion of fresh innocence that has always distinguished this western company . There is no trace , now , of glossing over amateurism ; no sign of any need to " write down " to the dancers . The ensemble is both charming and able , and the soloists all have authority and verve . Indeed I would rather think the problem now facing the com pany is less the limitations of its dancers than of its choreographers . Two were represented last night , Arnold Spohr with Ballet Premier and Intermede ; Gweneth Lloyd with Chapter 13. The fourth work was the Don Quixote pas de deux , danced with great sparkle and eclat by Bill McGrath and Carlu Carter . Ballet Premier is in classic style ; Intermede modern abstract . Both show Spohr's strong sense of line , and rare knack with choreographic pattern . He uses the ensemble with skill and has , particularly in the Ballet Premier , devised some quite beautiful passages and at least one that is rather distressing ) for both individual dancers and groups . Following one after the other , however , the general effect of these two ballets was a little chilly , completely unemotional and not quite intellectually exciting enough to compensate . The repertoire does not in clude Spohr's new ballet , Children of Men , this visit , so we will not have the chance to discover if he has begun to develop and exploit the inten sity which seems to be the one quality still lacking in the Winnipeg dancers . As young Spohr is the leading male dancer ( he danced in all three ballets last night ) the wonder is , of course , that he has enough time and energy left over to create new works at all , let alone such admirable one . He is obviously much too good a choreographer for the company or the country to lose , as it were , by default . Miss Lloyd's splashy Chapter 13 concluded the performance . This New York street scene , with burlesque queen , gangster and murdered cop , is gay with gum - chewing dolls and assorted types . Its hurly burly is skilled , very diverting and rather superficial . Murder and tragedy are written into the work , along with the cynicism of the feckless crowd , but any suggestion of real fear or distress varying the mood by beating against indifferent Manhattan seems to have got lost in the shuffle . Though a very versatile dancer , Eva von Gencsy last night proved much more interesting as Chapter 13's tough circuit charmer than in the more constrained activities of Intermede a ballet whose costumes , by the way , look fine en masse but are no help at all to the dancer --- close up . The company's other prima ballerina , Jean Stoneham , has a lovely , lyric style , admirably displayed in Ballet Premier . The corps and half a dozen accomplished young soloists all performed with spirit and ease . Eric Wild masterful on the conductor's podium , and the whole thing very encouraging .