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B18 THE RECORD, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1085 "'Entertainment Modern steps, Caribbean style WHT may expand By Jottph H. Mazo Special to Tin RKWd Garth Fagan'i Bucket Dance Theatre describes Its style as "modem dance with Afro-Caribbean roots," a phrase that Is both precise and accurate. Another apt description would be "virtuoslc." The troupe of 11 sleekly muscular dancers, which opened at the Joyce Tuesday night, displays a technique that blends the sinuous Caribbean style with the weighted power of American modern dance. The opening work on the program, "Prelude," begins with a series of showy solos, all of which look seriously painful to perform, and reaches a climax with spins so rapid that one sees multiple Images of the dancers as they whirl across the stage. Fagan, who began his career touring with the Jamaican National Dance Company founded the troupe in 1970, when he arrived in Rochester, N.Y., to join the faculty of the nearby State University of New ris counties subscribe to WHT.

The fare they view, the SelecTV movie channel transmitted from California, largely parallels the offerings of HBO and other pay services seen on cable, although WHT sometimes preempts SelecTV with sports events from Sportschannel. Meanwhile, WWHT the West Orange commercial television station that lets WHT take over its signal after 9 a.m. every weekday may decide to "kick out" the pay channel and run commercial programming all day long. Until last year, the commercial station and the pay channel were jointly owned by Wometco Enterprises, a publicly owned company based in Miami. Then a leveraged buyout put the commercial station in the hands of the privately held Wometco Broadcasting Company and the pay channel in the hands of Pay TV of Greater New York.

The pay channel still uses WHT as its call signal but says those letters no longer stand for Wometco Home Theatre. It would have to find another frequency for broadcasting were Channel 68 to go commercial all day. By Joel Pltetxner Ttltvltlon Writ West Orange-based WHT, one of the country's last satclllte-TV pay channels, plans to expand into a six-channel service. "We don't have an exact date; we're trying to look at May 1 or June 1, but you know how projections are," says Brian DeCourt, marketing director for Pay TV of Greater New York, the company that purchased WHT last year. Currently WHT provides a bled signal over Channel 68; subscribers lease "unscrambler" boxes which they attach to their television sets.

The advantage of this system is that it does not require cable; the disadvantage is that it offers only one channel instead of the two dozen or so that a typical cable carrier provides. Satellite TV systems similar to WHT have gone out of business throughout the country, unable to sustain themselves in a shrinking noncable market. DeCourt says tentative plans call for WHT to offer its present selection of SelecTV movies on one channel, Home Box Office and another premium service on two other channels, either Atlanta station TBS or all-sports station ESPN on a fourth, plus a cultural channel and a local sports channel. Viewers would change channels using a switch attachment to their unscramblers. Approximately 7,500 viewers in Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, and Mor York College at Brockport.

Working with students who bad little or no previous dance training, be created a company that has been widely applauded throughout the country. There can be no questioning Fa gan's skill as a teacher or the excitement of the unusual technique be has developed. The dancers strong, disciplined, and dedicated are a pleasure to watch, and the steps they perform are filled with surprises. Fagan's choreography, however, is less remarkable. He seems more interested in body shapes than in stage patterns, and more skilled at creating arresting moments than at linking them into an inevitable choreographic progression.

REVIEW The world premiere on Tuesday night's program, "Never Top 40 (Juke Box)," showed both the range and the limitations of the choreographer's imagination. It is made to five pieces of music, all of which are greatly admired, and none of which is going to earn a golden record. One weakness of "Never Top 40" is that the choreography does not always seem appropriate to the music. The first section is a parody of courtly dancing set to a recording of the late Jussi Bjoerling singing "Ne-sun dorma" from Puccini's "Turan-dot." The surprising spins and lunges of the formally arranged quartet were amusing, but the action seemed unrelated to either the text or the structure of the aria. Similarly, the sharp steps, the rolls on the floor, the turns, and the angled extensions of the second section made little comment on Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett's version of "Over The Rainbow." Steve Humphrey, looking like the Eighth Dwarf In his knitted hat, gave a fine performance of a measured solo to "Rivers of Babylon," baed on Psalm 137 and sung by the reggae group The Melodlans.

A companion solo, danced by Shelly Tapin, was performed to the 17th Century "Exaudi Me Domine," sung by countertenor Alfred Deller. The final section, "Walking in the Moonlight" by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, suggests the jazz of the 1920's, and in this case the choreography does respond logically, evoking images of romantic ballroom dancing and of showy, whirling steps as well. As daring as Fagan's steps often are, and as beautifuly as the dancers execute them, the piece fails to satisfy. A theme is stated in each episode, but steps tend to be repeated, rather than altered and developed into a larger pattern. All in all, the Bucket's dancing is a lot more interesting than its dances.

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