Carlu Carter - Clippings

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Carlu Carter - Clippings

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re this WINNIPEG FREE PRESS , SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 13 , 1954 Two Canadian Troupes Show Interest In Ballet Increasing la junior company of fine promise and great charm into an adult dance organization capable of sharing the burdens , the duties and the joys of the major ballet groups of the new world . SO V2 COP BY WALTER TERRY The opening night program in terror of the unfamiliar prairie NEW YORK , ( Special - NYHT ) Washington contained two new emptiness was clearly and touch -Canadians , these days , are busy ballet attractions - or shall we call ingly conveyed to the point that with ballet . them non - narrative compositions ? | her ultimate madness and death In recent years , major cities choreographed by Arnold Spohr , / seemed inevitable . from one coast to the other have the company's chief ( although Incidentally , this piece was es established ballet companies , some his technique is limited ' male pecially well danced by the com M of them professional , others semi - dancer and two works on indi - pany with Carlu Carter giving a F professional and still others of genous themes by Gweneth Lloyd plendid performance as the hero amatuer status . There have been artistic director of the Royal Win - line and Gordon Wales excellent ballet festivals also through which nipeg Ballet . as the husband . the citizens have come to recog . MORE IMPRESSIVE Lots of fun was Miss Lloyd's nize more fully their national ac complishments in dance . Miss Lloyd's offerings were the rough and gawdy treatment of n The Shooting of Dan McGrew , a d Last summer , the National Bal- / more impressive not only because work which has its thin moments V mature choreo let Company of Canada travelled of their more but which also boasts passages to the nUited States to give a graphy , but also because the somewhat inexperienced ( but series of successful performances of inspired comedy and of lusty s action . Everyone , including the in the Jacob's Pillow dance festi- that is not to say undisciplined ) handsome and spirited Eva Von val at Lee , Mass . , and this week dancers were on the safer ground Genesy , Roger Fisher , Bill Mc the Royal Winnipeg Ballet dis- with lusty , dramatic activities than with assignments demanding Grath and Mr. Spohr , danced it у played its special dance gifts at with the National theatre in Washing - movement exactitude and stylis- | which is one of this youthful com- 10 that communicable vigor tic precision . ton , D.C. pany's happiest characteristics . I BOTH MODEST Miss Lloyd's Shadow on the CLEAR IMAGINATIVE 0 Neither company is the equal Prairie , with a striking score And this brings us to Mr. Spohrd of England's Sadler's Wells bal- by Robert Fleming , was almost in his capacity as choreographer , let or of the American Ballet consistently successful in its fus- His two ballets , Intermede and theatre or the New York City ing of folk dance movement with Ballet Premier , are clearly the ballet , nor is such equality pre- a kind of free style ballet . work of a fine craftsman , for tended . Both are modest , junior Particularly eloquent was their abstract designs are seq organizations with ambition , taste extended solo designed for the uentially clear and imaginative and a desire to contribute to the young bride in which her growing in movement detail . But crafts international art of ballet the dis manship is not neccessarily , nor tinctive colors , in performing and often artistry . in choreography , of Canadian Mr. Spohr makes stage pictures , dance skills . and they are good ones , but be The two are rivals , and their cause he tends toward photo rivalry is said to be exceedingly graphic moments of such sharp sharp , but they are different in ness a series of abrupt finales many respects . ensue , his ballets lose their pot - 1 ) The National Company of Can ential sweep and their exploita ada which has , I think , the strong р tion of a given movement pat er dancers , is concerned almost tern is obscured . Mr. Spohr's exclusively with what might be А choreographic gift , however , is a called a standard repertory com genuine one , modeled ( by coinci- | h posed of traditional ballets , clas dence and not by direct training ) | d sical pas de deux and such mod after that of George Balanchine , ern masterworks as Lilac Garden . the master of pure movement The Royal Winnipeg Ballet , on h sensitized through music . the other hand , is not as much The young Canadian choreogra b interested in traditional ballets pher will , without question , de- o other than a few pas de deux and velop into an imaginative , sensi longer excerpts from the classics tive and tasteful dance creator -as it is in building a repertory of which Canada may be proud , of new creations , several of them just as the omens indicate that treating with Canadian themes the Royal Winnipeg Ballet itself and materials . may , in all likelihood , grow from an a 2 그 2 e a . YA -