4 The Daily Tar HeelTuesday. November 25, 1980
Dy LUCY HOOD
Staff Wriler
The New York City Ballet, The American
Ballet Theater, The Jeffrey Ballet, the Houston
Ballet The Houston Ballet? Yes, the Houston
Ballet, which performed in Reynolds Coliseum at
North Carolina State University this past
weekend, ranks among the best ballet companies
in the nation. .
Although the Houston Ballet may not be able
io compete with the ABT or the NYCB in
technical virtuosity, the company's choreography
emphasizes the dancers' strong points.
The Houston Ballet began as a strong local
company in Houston, Texas, in 1955. In 1969, the
company was made professional by its Board of
Trustees. The company grew and became a major
touring company in the Southwestern regions of
the United States. In 1976, the new artistic
director, Ben Stevenson, established an academy
to train students for the company, and he began
to build a strong cbssical repertoire for the
Houston Ballet. This season marks the 25th
anniversary of the Houston Ballet Foundation.
This makes a nice success story, and the
Houston Ballet's performance Friday night
continued to build upon the success story.
The program opened with Bartok Concerto,
a percussive piece performed to music by Beta
Bartok, an early 20th-century composer known
for his energetic pieces with strong rhythms.
As the curtain opened, seven couples were
spaced evenly on the stage. Each couple danced
within its own circle using a combination of well
synchronized arm movements, pirouettes and
arabesques. The dancers moved with beautiful
precision in this movement and throughout the
entire piece.
The second movement began with the dancers
in a huddle on center stage holding their arms high
and swaying them. One couple after another spun
off, making the cluster look like a, dandelion
blown apart by the wind.
Andrea Vodehnal and Dennis Poole performed
a more slowly paced pos de deux. The percussive
movements remained but they were given a softer
touch with lifts that melted into another position.
The ensemble returned and the movement ended
just as it began with the cluster of waving arms.
The third movement ended the entire piece in
the same way it started.
This was a brilliantly performed piece as was
the second, Three Preludes. Danced by Dennis
Poole and another principal dancer, Janie Parker,
this romantic piece consisted of three movements,
each one becoming progressively shorter.
For the second and third parts of the dance,
Parker and Poole moved through a series of leaps
and beautifully executed pirouettes. Her strength
and control when holding positions were
excellent;
A small comical number was added to the
program, Pie are Squared, and performed by
Steven Brule, Thomas Boyd and Rosemary Miles.
The dancers.dressed in a simple costume of black
leotards and tights, mocked the classical form cf
dance by attempting different lifts and leaps that
ended in contorted positions. This short dance
was hilarious and broke the somber mood created
by the previous two pieces.
The program ended with Raynwnda Act III.
The first section, called the Czardas, was a fun
character dance performed by the corps. The
second section, PasDe Trots, offered only a slight
character flavor to the traditional classical style.
The section Pas Hongroise maintained the
classical structure of a pas de deux: The dancers
alternated solos to show off for each other and
danced together at the end. Everyone finally
gathered together at the end just as the music
reached its peak of intensity.
Raymonda Act HI was a nice classical ballet
with a unique character tw ist. How ever, being the
last peice on the program, it failed to maintain
interest and respect for those dancers who left
most of the audience awe-struck before the first
and second intermissions.
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Arts Editor
In an unprecedented move last Wednesday United Artists
pulled Heaven's Gate, one of the most expensive films ever
made, after one day of release in New York.
An analysis
The decision was made to call back and re-edit the film when
Heaven's Gate, which runs nearly four hours and costs somewhere
between $36 million and $45 million, received totally
disastrous reviews. Vincent Canby of The New York Times
said that watching the western directed by Micheal Cimino, the
director of The Deer Hunter, "is like taking a force four-hour
walking tour of one's own living room."
Though critics said the biggest problem with Heaven's Gate
was that scenes went on ad nauseam it will be difficult, even
with successful re-editing, to overcome the terrible stigma it
has been saddled with.
For the movie to make a profit it has to gross somewhere
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U.S. vs. Paramount et cl decision where the studios were
ordered to relinquish their ownership of theater chains. With
fewer releases the studios pinpoint their desires on the idea that
people go to the movies a couple of times a year to see those
super-colossal-media-hyped-must-see-blockbuster flicks. In
competition with other such movies, the studios pump as much
money as possible into their productions to ensure that their
pictures will be the ones to clean up at the box office.
The studios, mostly run by men who never made
movies lawyers, businessmen and former agents don't
know when to say no to the directors. Thirty years ago when
studios were run by men like David O. Selznick, a director like
Micheal Cimino would not have been allowed to escalate the
budget Heaven's Gate was originally budgeted for $12
million) nor would he have been given time to turn the film
into a major financial travesty. He would have been fired
quickly. This old policy sometimes hinders art but never puts a
major studio on the line. In the long run, the movies were
protected, which isn't the case today.
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