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Show Granite Arts Assn. Presents Ballet The newest company on the - American dance horizon, the Robert Joffrey Theatre Ballet," will be seen here on Thursday, Marsh 6th at 8:15 p.m., in the Granite High Sshool Auditorium. Auditor-ium. It offers many fresh ideas in theatre ballet. With accent on entertainment, the production product-ion promisjts a combination dance and the best tradition of of romantic ballet, the dramatic lively musical Americana. Versatility is the keynote for the performers, for each member of the company participates par-ticipates in the full range of production styles. Two of the company's leading lead-ing dancers serve as examples of that versatility. Dark haired ballerina Beatrice Tompkins is famous for exquisite technique in pure ballet style. But she is, as well, an all-round performer per-former - a dancer who is also an actress. On stage she is, by turns, regal, classically precise - or dramatically intense in-tense - or delightfully satiric. Similarly, Gerald Arpino can draw on training in either classical ballet or modern dance. He has scored successes as soloist with the Nana Gollner - Paul Petroff Ballet Russe - and, at the other extreme, in a number of Broadway Broad-way musicals. This kind of many-faceted background, from which is created to-" day's new kind of theatre dancer, is found in all members of the Joffrey Ballett. Seattle born Robert Joffrey (Continued on page 7) (Continued from page 4) has produced the program. His ballet productions for The American Ballet Theatre, for the Ballet Rambert of London, And his choreography for the productions of the NBC Television Tel-evision Opera Theatre, have marked him as one of the leading newcomers to the dance. With equal ease he has staged the dances for a TV spectacular spectacu-lar on baseball, with Gene Nelson and Nanette Fabray; for Stella AdlerB Cairnegie Playhouse production of Kurt Weill's "Johny Johnson"; and for grand opera ballet, as done "live" on the road or on the air by the NBC Company, or as done by the New York City Opera Company, on the huge City Center stage. Being added to last year's list of ballets by Mr. Joffrey are new works by such significant sig-nificant American Choreographers Choreogra-phers as " Todd Bolender and Job Sanders. The repertoire is being further enriched by the (Continued oa page 7) (Continued from page 6) addition of two outstanding works by George Balanchine, the distinguished Artistic Director of the New York City Ballet One of Mr. Joffreys special successes, the romantic ballet "Pas des Deesses," will be a highlight of the program here. This work is also in the repertoire of The American Theatre, and England's Ballet Rambert has recently been performing it with great success suc-cess in far-off China. (The work is the first American ballet to be danced behind the Iron Curtoln.) |