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Show Section D The Salt Lake Tribune RTS @ JACK GOODMAN/D-3 BOOK REVIEWS/D.s ARTSLISTINGS/D-10-13 en = SUNDANCE KID xend eatre/D-14 ue Bab Y, AUGUST 30, 1998 Aspen Ballet hits its stride BY HELEN FORSBERC And ("ve come {a pat my fat daw, tu cram my (eet dawn tke Unreats manyyears Ballet Wes! Ss taken its danc to Aspen, Colo. Now Aspen ist ringing its dance Fo. Salt Lake and beyond © ail creaps, thieves, hypecriles, gessips, | | | | | | Stiffers of waitresses, in throngs of obeaximusness, The Aspen Ballet Company which performed Park City in February — returns to Utah in aber for performances in Salt | ( den and Provo. (Ballet West performe mid-August legians of madiacre seii-tlest, TheSalt Lake-Aspenballet connection to 1970. Ballet West founder Willam F. cme te stamp ay feet in their gals ad trem about tke ta breaking in new boats. Christe sen took the troupeto the trendy Colorado toy and founded a summer residency that came knownas Ballet West at Aspen, then DanceAspe That groupis gone, but the Ballet West-Asp elationship continues. Stand warned: ve been diagaesed Aspe ‘predispesed, meaning likely not te pul up wit crag, The Aspen Ballet Company debutedin 1996, t brainchild of Aspen’s Bebe Schweppe and Ma 3 and Tom Mossbruck both dancers with th f frey Ballet in New York. Schweppe, a former dar er, founded the Aspen Ballet School in 1990. The three met at an international danceevent hers’ conference in Vail, Colo., in 19% and te x Schweppe wanted to start a professional ballet spaierializing a5 a Stetsae with 2 diazing | | Silvan Nat Bana, troupe, and the dancers, who weren't planning on weil, it shewida't take 2 saupdtrask of was leaving New York, found the Aspen offer too goodto turn down. The opportunity of starting a ballet company saloga's dead siigace fromscratch doesn't happenvery often,” said Me laty via phone from Boulder, Colo., where he was ta spell out whal's abeat le happea aeal. ching. “It's very exciting to have a blank Wehave complete artistic freedom ‘rest 3 poaan by Aisd Garwey pag Malaty and Mossbrucker, also co-artistic dir¢ tor. envisioned a versatile company small in size, contemporary in nature. It wouldreflect the See ASPEN, Page D-6 City, slams are part of the menu at A Cup of Joe at 353 W. 200 South. BY MATE SARTWELL HE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE What is new and happening is that Salt Poetry is power Nothing conveys the depth and song of human experience faster or harder than Lake, maybethecultural hub of the state but certainly not of the country, sent a team of intrepid slamm fingered dawn,” ry Slam Competition in Austin, Texas, in mid August. Here they competed with the power houses of poetry, like Los Angeles, New York, home-team Austin and — you better the common manis believeit ing poetics once again. where poets performoriginal works onstage ind in your face, With a timelimit and no tition at A Cupof Joe. The national competition wor props, poets baretheir skills, not in a theater or amarble forum, but at thehearth of a local tavern or coffee house. Here in Salt Lake Albuquerque, N. M Salt Lake's team of Melissa Bond, Rob Car ney, Dave Stevenson and Tom H. ris was compe: culled from hopefuls at a monthlo: And fromthat comes the poetry slam. Slams are now a well-known cultural event | hevig dance,the Super Bowl of blank verse, the 1998 National Poet verse. Not even the best Metallica power chords rival the words of John Donne, Oh baby, it tolls for thee. You bet it does. So at the end of the 20th century, some 3,000 years after Homerfirst penned his Forty-five teams from around the meet at venues throughout the city. e this country They compete one member at atimein rotation, Poetry slammers Rob Carney, left, Tom Harris, Melissa Bond, David Stevenson. with three minutes to pull off an original memorized piece. Points are lost for going over the time limit The piececan bein an ensembleas long as the writer participates. Poets are scored indi- vidually on ascale of 1 to 10, to the second decimal place Thereare five judges, but here's the rub, The judging panel canbea singleperson or a group, as long asthere arefive sets of num bers, This makesplayingto individual judges impossible As in some athletic events like igureskat See S.L. SLAMMERS, Page D-2 The Aspen Ballet Company comes to the Wasatch Front next month. Jt comes ‘round but once every hundred years... | Be ReCC ee Ue SEPTEMBER 16-OCTOBER 3 we ‘ Great Music, Patriotic Fun And someof history's most colorful characters made 1776 a Broadway hit! Join John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and the entire Continental Congress as they sing, dance and arguetheir way to aJuly 4th date with destiny TICKATS ON SALE AUGUST 24 Bs Call 581-6961 R COPY aes SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE GRANDTHEATRE ¢ 1575 South State PLONEER THEATRE COMPANY From the Hampton Collection for men and women Masterfully crafted 1 stainless steel with yeciswon quarlz Movement Water-resistant to 99feet, (enn J for detail) Phone 957-3322 | |