tuesday. September 29. 1931
daily nebraskan
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Houston director. . .
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Stevenson said he is working on some new material,,
including a rock ballet with music by Robert Prince, with
whom he's worked on several original ballet scores.
Stevenson also said his work is influenced by Eastern
dance traditions because of his yearly cultural exchanges
with Peking. Last year he rehearsed two ballets with Chi
nese repertory groups: "Three Preludes," and "L," both
of which Stevenson choreographed.
-The Chinese are very receptive to Westernized dance
forms.' he said. "They're extremely eager to learn and
very disciplined at the same time.""
Although Stevenson originally went to China to teach
the Chinese Western dance, he found he too was influ
enced in the process.
While in Lincoln, the Houston Ballet will perform two
original Ballets by Stevenson: "Three Preludes'" and "Bar
tok Concerto."
"Three Preludes' premiered with the American Ballet
and eventually won first prize foe Modem Choregraphy at
the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria.
"Bartok. Concerto"' is a classic ballet in a modem setting,
set to Bartok's Third Piaru Concerto
Walter Terry, a dancer with one of Stevenson's com
panies, commented on Stevenson the director. Ben Ste
venson always accomplishes his task in an unorthodox
way. He has a devastating, sardonic wit. He's a terrible
taskmaster while being a terrific clown. 1 remember when
he was rehearsing me in Bartok Concerto he wanted me
to be more gutsy and more rhythmic and still retain clas
sic disclipine, so while 1 was dancing to Bartok he made
me sing when you're a jet, you're a jet alt the way, from
your first cigarette to your last dying day." 1 dont know
what Sondheim and Bernstein have to do with Bartok,
but it did and it worked and . . . well, that's Ben.
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entertainment notes
TAFY, the Theater Arts for Youth board
of the Lincoln Community Playhouse, will
present a Young Peopled Performance of
the Houston Ballet at Kimball Recital Hall
at 4:00 p.m. on Oct. 2. The performance is
specially planned for students of high
school age and under.
Tickets are available for students, and
adults accompanying them, at the Kimball
Hall Box Office. They may also be ordered
by mail, when a self-addressed stamped en
velope accompanies the order and payment.
For ticket information, call 472-3375 be
tween 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
The program is sponsored in part by
funding from the Nebraska Arts Council
and the National Endowment for the Arts
Dance Touring Program, as coordinated by
the Mid-America Arts Alliance.
The 1981-82 season of I he from the
Met premieres on the Nebraska Educa
tional Television Network with a new pub
lic television performance of Giuseppe
Verdi's La Tfttviata. Sept. 30, at 8 p.m.
The two-and-a-half-hour production
which features Ileana Cotrubas as Yioletta,
Placido Domingo as Alfredo and Cornell
MacNeU as Germont, was videotaped in
performance at the Metropolitan Opera on
March 28, 1981. The conductor is James
Levipe, tie Metropolitan's music director.
The plot of the opera follows; a tragic
young courtesan, Yioletta who leaves her
wealthy benefactor for the true love of Al
fredo. ,
la Traviata was first performed in Venice
in 1853. t
Live from the Met is produced by the
Metropolitan Opera Association and pre
sented by public television station WNET
New York and the Metropolitan Opera.
Research projects at NU which bring
greater returns than the original investment
are explored in this week's What's NU? pro
gram at 8 p,m., repeating Oct. 3, at 1 p.m.
on the Nebraska Educational Television
Network.
Jim Raglin, NU director of public affairs,
will host the 30-minute program which will
present segments from each of the campuses
of the university system. The segments wiU
vary in content from stress medicine to so
lar heating. A
The NU system includes the UNL and
its Institute of Agriculture and Natural Re
sources, UNO, and the NU Medical Center
located in Omaha,
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