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Show London Tour fa Local girls join USU donee troupe Amy Price of Farmington and Tara Petersen of Layton are among 12 members of Utah State University's Univer-sity's Danceworks performing company leaving June 16 for a two-week two-week London tour, announced Donna Gordon, Danceworks director direc-tor and USU assistant professor of dance. Some of the stops on their England tour include the Centre for the Performing Arts, Creative Arts six months refining the program to appeal to school-age children and young dance students, Gordon said. They presented the program to 14 schools in Utah and Idaho. "We found out from our young patrons that we needed to add more props to make the pieces more exciting ex-citing and stimulating," she said. "We shortened the program to 45 minutes, added more athletic movement and made sure nothing was too abstract or frightening." Price, daughter of Cynthia G. Heiny of Farmington and Tony Price of West Bountiful, is a senior at USU majoring in dance with a minor in health. She has performed for two years in Danceworks and choreographed for the 1990 and 1991 Spring Forum. She received the 1990-91 Marie Eccles Caine Scholarship. Petersen, dauphfer of Christian and Hilkka Petersen, is a 1989 graduate of Layton High School, where she was captain of the LHS colorguard and member of LHS Dance Company and National Honor Society. She is a junior majoring in liberal arts and sciences and minoring in dance at USU. She choreographs and performs for USU colorguard and is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society. Centre, Dance Inspector, Dance Studies at the University of Surrey and Dance Division of the Froebel Institute, all in London. They will take masters classes at nearby studios, including Pineapple Studio, Urdang Academy, Hobum Centre for Performing Arts and the London Contemporary Theatre. The masters classes are part of a cooperative arrangement worked out with the studios in which Gordon Gor-don and another USU dance instructor, instruc-tor, Fiona Reilly, will teach masters classes in return. Dubbed "The Young Audiences Tour," Danceworks spent the past |