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Urban punk ballet
BalletMet will bring its unconventional mix of ballet and modern dance to the Topeka Performing Arts Center.
By James J. Reece
common staff writer
Kansan staff writer
eople who think the ballet is too refined for their tastes should go see the eccentric ballet production of Ballet Met Thursday night. Ballet Met is a Columbus, Ohio professional ballet company that blends traditional ballet with modern and jazz dance. The company is under the artistic direction of John McFall. whose latest choreographed
piece, "Underbelly," will be part of the performance. The troupe will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Toukea Performing
piece, "Underbelly," with
mance. The troupe will perforat
at the Topeka Performing
Arts Center, 214 S.E. Eighth
St.
“It’s kind of an urban punk ballet,” said David Stover, who dances in "Underbelly." "John just threw it at us and let us interpret it as we wanted. We play around a lot with our makeup. The girls do some pretty harsh things. They let their hair down and let it fly around."
Stover studied ballet in Helsinki, Finland for a year. He then went to dance for the Houston Ballet, which has visited Hoch Auditorium.
Stover said he thought the piece appealed to younger audiences because it blended ballet with modern dance and because it showed the youthful, wild creativity of the dancers.
"Basically, if it's an older audience, they don't like it too much because it's not pretty," he said. Stover has danced for 13 years and has been with BalletMet for three years.
McFall, who has headed BalletMet for six years, danced with the San Francisco Ballet from 1965 to 1983 and began his choreographed two commissioned works for Mikhail Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre and created 11 works for the 24-member BalletMet.
Besides "Underbelly," which premiered in April 1991 at the
Ohio Theatre, Thursday's performance also will include three other pieces. These pieces will be "There, Below," by James Kudelka, "Great Galloping Gottschalk," by Lyne Taylor-Corbett, and "Divertimento No. 15," by George Balanchine. "Divertimento No. 15" is based on a work of the same name by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and will feature a solo by Marianna Tcherkassky, and a soloist Susan Jaffe.
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