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Show "Daily Utah Chronicle Monday, March 21, 2005 BURNING DOWN THE CALENDAR March 21 Monday Calendar's Spring Break ended on highest of low notes—literally. The fuselage on our private charter flight home from Kingston burst into flames just as we stepped off our ride onto American soil, and with it, enough high-grade Jamaican agriculture to turn Star Jones-Reynolds into the scourge of every cookiecracker isle this side of Hershey, Pa. The U's ballet department performs one of six pieces as part of the U's Spring Break Ballet Ensemble, held March 12 at the Marriott Center for Dance. Spring cleaning U ballet students can't clear out all the dust bunnies in their Spring Dance recital John Boyack A&E Writer A celebration of the changing of the seasons typically reflects the natural metamorphosis that is spring: a breaking from frost's decisive grip, as life is propelled anew. However, the ballet department could only mildly reflect this wonderment with their recently concluded Spring Dance recital. For the performance, department faculty steered creative control back into the hands of students, only recently after students finished directing themselves a month ago in this semester's Ballet Showcase. Things started off well for the ballet students, with an impressive night-opening "Etudes Avec Six Filles." A proper etude rightly demonstrates a point of technique, but choreographer Gilles Maidon seemed bent on simplicity, even while Chopin's musical accompaniment to the piece proved decidedly intricate. Choreographer Conrad Ludlow followed the etude oddly with a lackluster, stale piece dedicated to a hero of a marchij| band's songbook, John'Philip Soiisa. The music used for the performance eked an eerie, antique mask of Sousa's intentions, wrenching dancers back into a ridiculous pomp of salutes and smiling faces costumed in leotards of stars and stripes. Before breaking momentarily, audience members were then graced with "A Court Without Women Is A Year Without Spring, and Spring Without Rose," Originating from a quote given by King Francis I, choreographer Sharee Lane organized an intelligent insight to the efforts of King Francis' time. Dancer Meredith Wahlstrom opened with a solo on the Harp, before masked dancers, keen to the traditions of the Renaissance, displayed an encouraging glimpse of representation of the times. The night still lacked depth, however, and connection, moving haphazardly into "Valse," another piece choreographed by Ludlow. After intermission, a brief, predictable gift of French influence from Maidon's second piece of the evening, "Mon Pre," provided a sense of emotion rare to the evening. The saving grace of the otherwise bland and lacking recital was the anticipated debut of guest choreographer Eloy Barragan's, "Vuela Conmigo." Already an improvisation, ICE continued from page 4 berg and Panettiere are cute and engaging. "Ice Princess" doesn't break the mold, but it has a good, girlpower message for the tweens (The Spice Girls would be so proud...) and enough spunk from the cast to keep parents moderately engaged. Now all we need is a knockdown, drag-out, cat-fight between Hilary Duff and Hilary Duff look-a-like Hayden Panettiere. I'd pay $7.50 to see that. On ice. aallen@chronicle.utah.edu rhi; drrenldte Ap^oy In O n t o %*®. Barragan, with the help of faculty member Steve Rasmussen and the Marriott Center for Dance Costume Shop, brought modernity to an otherwise antiquated evening of dance. Amongst dancers clad uniformly in black spandex, female soloist Hannah Beach stood out in brilliant red and effectively moved to the interpretations of Barragan's recent exposure to the exotic lands of Costa Rica and Panama, with particular observations of the nature of that region's elegant birds. In an evening that meandered the blase territory of outdated attitudes of dance, perhaps Barragan was right in thinking that ballet needs to expand its technique to further move into modernity, working to connect with today's younger dancers and audiences. jboyack@chronicle.utah.edu And if that whole "what goes up..." thing is true, then it's only appropriate that Sub Pop Records' 145th battalion of my-parade-is-officially-drenched-rock Low will be playing The Velvet Room at Shaggy's (155 West 2 0 0 South) tonight. Doors open at 7 : 3 0 p.m., tickets are $14 and available from Smith'sTlx outlets wherev- er. But there's a catch: not only do you have to be 21 and older to go to the Low show, but "at the artists' request," there'll be no drinking or smoking inside The Velvet Room tonight. So Low's supposed to be a natural high? That's like taking the "mean" out of amphetamine-just a downer. And this week, on the ever-indiscriminate " 2 4 , " CTU Agent Jack Bauer has to deal with not having power within a 5-mile radius of Disneyland or something, which raises the greater question: Mow small of a world is it, after all? Small enough so that Bauer will always have a loaded gun, bathroom or fullygassed Expedition ready for him at all hours of the day. Like 50 Cent, just..uh.,.less color, fewer groupies, fewer hits, fewer hype-man shout-outs ("Murdoch! You my boy! Droppin' it hot!"), and less "chronic bu-bubbly-bonic." FOX ruins everyone's fun tonight at 8 p.m. What's a mono-Bono-wanna-be do when he realizes that he's 43 and not the guy behind "The Joshua Tree?" Throw the Faux-No a bone... o: as long as he can count to four, chances are, he's "even better than the real thing." And you wonder why we get paid for this? Pssh. Elevation, a U 2 tribute band, plays Ego's ( 6 6 8 South State St.) tonight at 9 p.m. Tickets are $ 8 from Smith'sTix; 21 and up; proceeds from this show will go to The Ledge's bar-tab, because a U2 tribute band, unlike the legit U2, really couldn't care less about developing nations' debt. Really. They just want to get drunk. At least the Irish is authentic. WWW.DA1LYUTAHCHRONICLE.COM The Chrony is looking for senior staff editors for 2005-2006. Applications are due tomorrow in Union 240. NEED MONEY? WE NEED YOU! You could qualify for a special blood program, if you have recently been diagnosed with any of the following: 801.487.2602 3362 S. Main Street, Suite B Massive Student Discounts Lowest Prices in America - Herpes Simplex t/ii - Mononudeosis - Chicken Pox/ Shingles - Epstein Ban Virus - Chlamydia - Other conditions may bo suitable, call for details. 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