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Ballet combines classic with modem for vivacious sold-out performance By Kathy Shults Staff Reporter Ballet Eddy Toussaintde Montreal once again captivated audiences with its dynamic yet disciplined dancers in a recent return to Lincoln. The Montreal Company, founded in 1974 by Haitian refugee Eddy Toussaint, performed Monday and Tuesday evening in Kimball Hall. Both shows wore sold out. Dance Review Toussaint’s pioneering attempts to combine classical ballet with modern dance resulted in an unpredictable, vivacious performance. It is no sur prise that he was awarded a gold medal for contemporary choreogra phy at the International BallctCompe tilion in 1984. Each dance illustrated Toussaint’s passion for simple linear beauty, grand group movements and intricate detail in the use of arms. The dancers performed with a graceful intensity. The men often demonstrated their versatility and strength through acro batic lifts and poses, while the women focused more on pointc. The opening selection, “Concerto Pour Sophie,” was created by Tous saint tocclcbrate the growth and talent of one of his principal dancers, Sophie Bissoncttc. The dance was pure and gracetul, as was the violin concerto Toussaint chose to accompany it. I can sec Bissoncttc as one of his star danc ers in a few years. I was especially impressed with Toussaint’s star dancers, Anik Bis sonettc and Louis Robitaille. To gether the couple performed “Ah! Chcrs Couples” (Ah Dear Couples), a scries of pas dc deux representing some of history’s most well-known couples, including Samson and Deli lah, Cleopatra and Marc Antony, and Romeo and Juliet. “Ah! Chers Couples” was the most lighthearted, whimsical dance of the evening. The emotions Bissoncttc and Robitaille displayed made the dance wonderfully intriguing. They demon strated the pushing and pulling rela tionshipsendure through rigid, uncon ventional movements. The dance was almost a farce. As Delilah, Bissonette manipu lated her partner like a puppet, the two often flexing their wrists and ankles in awkward positions. She was proud and cruel as Cleopatra, conquering Antony with physical violence. The most moving pas de deux was their interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. The partners intertwined their bodies with elegance and beauty. Fluid body movement, leg extensions and sensual lifts demonstrated the couple’s strength. Toussaint’s inspirational, religious “Requiem de Mozart” asked why women cannot serve as priests in the Church when in death, people are all alone and sex is irrelevant. The dance docs not follow a story line, nor does it answer the question it poses. It does show women shut out by the Catholic Church. It is the best example of Toussaint’s use of massed movement and bravura dance. The performance was thought provoking, yet more importantly, it was beautiful to look at. Music master s voice recital set for Thursday Marti Baumert, a candidate for a master’s degree in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Schtxil of Music, will present her master’s voice recital at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Sheldon Ari Gallery Auditorium. Baumcrt,of Lincoln, isastudentof Dr. Richard Grace, UNL professor of voice, and has a bachelor of music degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University. In her recital, she will be assisted by Michael Cotton on harpsichord and piano. The recital, open to ihc public without charge, will include among others, secular cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, Nicola Porpora and Antonio Caldara. Station plans to broadcast international TV network MDTV from page 6 ITN and channel 61 carried over cable would ensure students’ access to the foreign-language programming, he said. “They (ITN) indicated that a lot of colleges across the country put them on the cable system or helped them gain access to the system,” he said. 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