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Show 4 I $rm 4 ft-- p t t TW r i Variedy is the spice !rrn Page Continued time (if'ir.m is ore ot h,e children) and Im urad to quilt Mary is a "eo lege profit if. tr..t, amt a.i onlvth.ld From New YoiL My father was m his late 40s and my mother was 42 when I was born, ' Mary explained. My father is from new Yorx and so when he obtained a teaching pusi-uo- n in Washington (state) they left all the relatives far bch.nd We had a small apartment and when they did come to visit they stayed in a hotel L-- l " n pirtfits, more time j'M on the windows! ani a Ion? s vt ifit table Becau they both work. Tufitm fceis li's PJC rptrpnr), j. ti'i.y to help Mary with as much housework a3 possible. tf Av Uhut It bliC ' It HiiUf dastsi, I started shipping up -- i 4L.. t . uuu&si " (ie pointed to an a.mool compete set of the Time-Lif- e ' Foods of the World Lib"and we love the rary vuneiy," he said The first time he ever made a souffle it was "rcat, emphasized V' cur-Ijh- i. (hi-- , fV uic il- cm tains throughout Pattern ,Jf f A It is a fact that Tomm dd net start dancing unt.l he was in college. Drafting Student He studied diafting in high school ("I was drawing parts of airplanes and the like"), he waited tallies" one summer and finally entered the University of Wyoming as a When I drafting student. was a senior un high school) we came to Provo and saw Coppeha I thought it was fantastic. Little did I realize five years later I would be dancing the lead " JI vvuii LlUVC) He recalls hunting and fishing and summer-lon- g U1C carrp-excursio- with all the cousins. We literally moved into the canyon for the sumWe mer," Tomm said. stayed all summer and fished we still go fishing and camping whenever we get a chance. "His family is so different from mine. Mary said He is company oriented and Im just the opposite. Hes used to hav mg people visiting all the TWvriusIf 17, JH34 w-- i v Ifk )i 1 3 t n "The co'tumes helped They are sherbet colors the men m tights and boots and the women in chiffon dresses They look like poetic peasants The movement of the dresses and the softness of the shirts add to the dance A Cerius is a ruzzie" Quintet da"ce, Mary said. Tomm is a genius wth puzzles. Tho e puzzles you can spend horns on trvmg to figure out. Tomm ran lake apart and put toHe gether in minutes thinks m puzzles. He does them m his mind He says it comes from his drafting background but 1 think it was something he was bom with and it came out because of his drafting And his choreography just emphasizes it Tomm said the key to god choreography is to be innovate e as well as creative patriotEvery subject ism, pollution, religion, war, life can be restated, he said. He says he is influenced by Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine, but he added hes glad hes not m New York with Balanchine because the critics would say my dances are a takeoff on Balanchines style. The Future The Ruuds have no definite plans for th future. They touched on "maybe starting a small company, or going to Europe to dance, or teaching and directing. Mary, 28, feels she could teach. But she also would like to have children. 1 well-know- n Tomm did some "dancing" in junior high and high I was in roadshows school and I went to school dances. I guess the girls liked the way I danced in junior high. When we went back to my hometown for a visit one time I bumped into one of the girls I knew m eighth grade She - loinm's sewing ability helped with Quntet's1 costumes wh-r- 1 choreograi h I get a feeling of the costumes as wdl as wnats happening f v dualize what it say s to me. I try to make it come across that way and 1 think Ive t achieved that vth soloist d The Ruuds female cat, Lucifer, said, Hi Tomm! Arc you sldl dancing? I told her. Yeah, I still dance a bit After attending the Umv y of Wyoming fur one year Tomin went to work for a theater company at Jackson Lake Lodge. He had taken a er-sit- modern dance class at ... finds Tomm because she thought it would be ostentatious about having got him " And while they Were on the subject. Tomm explained how he decided upon his name. My family is Norwegian he said I could have spelled it Thoam, Tom or Tomm I can't really say why I selected the double m . . . I ! think it looks more and was encouraged to attend the University of Utah because of its emphasis on dance As a professional, Tomm Extensive Ballet has turned to choreography He enrolled and received to express himself. His latest, modern dance training from Quintet, done to Schuberts Barley Rine and Joan WoodQuintet m A Major, Opus 114 bury (excellent teachers, (nicknamed Trout"), is a he said) and extensive ballet simple dance without a training Back he went for a plot" and pure dance with a summer at Jackson Lake and capital D," Tomm said. then again to the University He wants to leave the of Utah Upon his return he nickname (Trout) out of the found he was a charter because I didnt program member of the newly founded to put visions of fish in want Civic Ballet. Utah peoples heads." The Ruuds find many adFive Couples vantages in working He named it Quintet Especially when were touring, Mary said. I 'because it features five coureally feel for those (dancers) who mus leave their families for weeks at a time And m the studio Tomm and Mary contmue as we did before we were married. Tomm explained, Mary is still my wife Its not like were d.vorced when we go to the studio. Ill go up and ask her Whats lor dinner, or give her a kiss, but were there as dancers first. When criticism is necessary, Mary said, they have a tendency to be more harsh on one another than on others in the company. Married Tomm Wyoming proft-s-ciona- herself ved te m the wrong bu Ill hav e time to do choreogra phy is We have to prog1 feel a direetur I would she said. like both," should show dancers how to ress. keep going. . , Tomm' to cured a company, dance. Tomm said. Ifl can du a step, aaid 1 feel the dancers can leam to He referred to his experiThen Mary interrupted. ences with Eailet West and do them. . . .Sometimes Mr Thats not to soy we don Wiliam Christensen. Gne of C. changes the choreography like it here. People somethe problems Ballet West to make it easier for us, but times assume that every" faced m the past was the not as much as he used to thing outside of Utah is alWrong Business quality of dancers it had. Mr. ways bigger and better That C. recognized their weaknesAre the Ruuds content with isn t necessarily so. W e know ses and choreographed Ballet West and their life in dancers who have come from around them Utah? "Content? Were New York to Utah and fe't it a J Were better now. Some never content . . if we were promotion I m sui e dif-Lcu- ... ... t. ... ... Mary didnt change her name when she married Above it all.. vm tear. j&t tI 5 demi-soioi- Tomm does a lot of sowing He makes his own spins and slacks, her cocktail dresses, blouses skirts and slacks Usually without a pattern In fact thats why we started daung, Mary explained. Tomm evidently had made numerous dresses for "other girls at Ballet West, and "I decided I wanted him lo make one for me Ha agreed They started dating, I and the rest is history. guess you could say our marriage evolved," Mary-saiThey were married shortly after the companys European tour m 1971 Tomm cant really remember when he began sewing I just i member when I nee led something sewn at home I sewed it, either by hand or oil the machine." When he came to the University of Utah he volunteered to help the theater department with costumes Thats how I learned to work without patterns. he explained. Truck Driver Tomms family - his parents and aunts and uncles influenced from Wyoming his life greatly," he said I probably would have been a truck driver or rancher like my grandfather" had not certain events brought him to SuslJUv- pbx. ' "But I started a da. cing class when I was four er.d dancing took," she sad. Mary joined the ballet corps m Bifid, was promoted to m 1971 and then he house were designed and sewn by botn, but mostly by Tomrn. Mary added Without - Lak Tu&uiif, "Ive alwjv., imi a 5 fjuna!i'i w ith the i umber Its my 'ucVy numbe- - K yen is a sirungt number tj r.ie 7 Mary's father play ed violin and her mother piano at d she rcralls early lessons on both Mary. The of the Ruuds' pas de deux Sat sss X "X. 66 -- i? THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THE WORLD MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE! Laieview Terrace offers the world ... mere Mile sunset a special on the Great Salt Lale, the moon rising over the ruggtd Wasatch Mountains, the serene beauty of nature preserved in a mountain environment surrounding your elegant Laieview residence .. and a new perspective in condominium living new of Laieview Terrene rests high in the Bountiful Hills, detached from the hustle and bustle of metropolitan Salt Lale City, used to fcrsf advantage yit it is only minutes away. 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