Edmonton Journal from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • 15

THE EDMONTON JOURNAL, Thursday, No. 2, 1967 5 103 STREET AND JASPER. STORE OPEN DAILY 9.30 TO 6 EXCEPT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY -'j -v V'- 4 19 V' 1 ROLAND PETIT BALLET IN ACTION Ballet More Might A CURL'S BEST FRIEND IS SETSrtiiUhi At iome in gymnasium Gy ences, it stands as an adventure some and even intriguing art form but one that a good many people will be hard-pressed to comprehend. NEW DIALOGUE FOR OLD MOVIES Your favorite hair style will last longer with Rilling Setsation even if your hair is fine colour-treated oily or dry. Setsation is not a permanent wave it's a curly pattern that revives with each shampoo and set for 6 to 8 weeks.

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ACTIVE The Machine, a series of connected dancers in robot style, is appealingly active, and Bestonso and Blaszka trade strongly in good and evil in The Interrogation. The ballet succeeds without heavily involving us. The evening similarly stands as a choreographic exercise, a technical adventure in odd angles and calisthenics at floor level. Here, in effect, is a clinical showcase of an ultra modern dance company hi ultra-modern trappings. Whatever our personal prefer bare stage with colorful props intruding from time to time.

But in the main the choreog-raphv is static. Petit is a man of gestures. is musical director Marius Constant. The ballets seem to have very little dancing in them. The dancers might be more at home in a gymnasium.

ONLY ONE L'Eloge de la Folie is the only work worth noting. In a series of nine brief dances Petit evokes concepts of modern-day madness welded loosely into an over-all comment on the world's present unhappy state. His dancers gyrate through interludes of Love, War, The Machine, The Interrogation, The Pi'ls (sleeping kind), Advertising, and the inevitable Count Down. At the same time they generate a certain air of immediacy, a character that commends the work. It is at least a poetic comment on the times, if a disjointed and uninvolving work of dance.

The Pills offers a very sweet routine by Ghislaine Thesmar and Jacques Dombrowski, and a strong classical interlude by Robert Bestonso. Drugs and tranquillizers to make this existence bearable are included in the dance. Therse Thoreux adds rare emotion as the bored woman chained to her man in Love, and the music brings on a heavy "Thanksl And hert't my impersonation of Bobby Kennedy." Introducing After enjoying the show-relax in the attractive BRITISH STERLING Elegantly Male By B.4RRY WESTGATE Of The Journal The Roland Petit Ballet (Jubilee Auditorium) Modern inclinations in art are generally difficult to penetrate. In theatre, music, the graph-ks, even the film, the contemporary form involves by extraneous suggestion alone or it doesn't involve at all. And so it is with the colors of ballet offered by the acclaimed French dancerchoreographer Roland Petit.

For the most part meticulously modern and clinical, Petit's dance is strongly of the times. It might bore, and then just as easily become unaccountably exciting. SHARP, COMPACT To an accompaniment of musk in dots and dashes, the Roland Petit Ballet presented Itself in Edmonton Wednesday night. If the result was ail evening less-tban-classically involving, it wag also an experience with a sharp, compact company, and a choreographer whose expressiveness seems to be limited to the avant-garde school of thought. Petit works with small, compact ballets, and this is how the program went for more than 2,000 people in Jubilee Auditorium.

EVEN SING He makes his performers dance, contort, mime, sometimes even sing. He is notably melodramatic, a man of imagery, and suggestiveness. A sensual air creeps into some of his dances, usually offset by a mien of absolute expressionless-Bess in the dancers. For this tour he has utilized a corps of six men and seven women and five leading dancers. For them he has programmed two meaningiess ventures into calisthenics Ociandre by Felix Blaszka, and an elongated exercise, Formes, by himself.

The major work is his L'Eloge de la Folie (In Praise Of Madness), a ballet of nine dances around a central theme. ABSTRACTION The evening is relatively brief (two hours in all) and evoives in an air of almost total abstraction. The major impression from It is that this Is a company of young and exuberant talent. Every dancer moves sharply. The work is clean, given on a STARLIT DINING ROOM at THLVLr t-r, i HOTEL SOMETHING DIFFBRENTl SOMETHING NEWI "SPEED DAWSON BALLADEERS" in rh DEBONNAIRE LOUNOI Tues.f Wed af p.m.

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