Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 94

K4 lf-XINGTON HI' RAID-LEADER LFXINGTON KY SUNDAY AUGUST 2 1992 From the ArtsEntertainment front Herald-Leader Charles Bertram Above: Dancers get instruction from a videotape Kirt Hathaway the artistic director is at left Left: Rebecca Rodriguez a native of the Philippines joined the Cincinnati Ballet in 1988 Meridith Benson a member of the Cincinnati Ballet is originally from Richmond BALLET: Local company missing from showcase From Page K1 SHOW: Ballet Under Stars begins Thursday on Woodland Park stage From Pago K1 ticket buyers has slipped out of its grasp Beginning with the 1989-90 season the Lexington Ballet began building its own company Despite hopes that Lexington would have its own Bolshoi overnight the results have been mixed Some of the ballet's best dancers have gone to other companies But given the size and resources of the local company being a steppingstone to brtter work is something the Lexington Ballet is always going to have to deal with Since the 1991-92 season ended the performance company has undergone a near-complete turnover The 1992-93 company will be new to Lexington except for the talented Mikelle Bruzina who has been with the Lexington Ballet before and is returning from studying dance in Japan The Lexington Ballet has filled slot quickly by hiring a new ballet mistress in English-born Rosemary Miles But ballet lovers will have to wait until the Lexington preview performance Sept 12 at die University of Kentucky Singletary Center for the Arts to get an idea of what this new personnel can accomplish Most signs indicate a reawakening at the Lexington Ballet perhaps in time to keep the momentum going even without a free event to kick off the year that Hathaway with whom they had just parted company had been hired by the paries department to produce Ballet Under the Stars they withdrew from what might have developed into an awkward situation Most of the people Hathaway has assembled are seasoned young or up-and-coming artists who have embraced dance as a profession For those unfamiliar with the quality of the dancers in the Cincinnati Ballet this program should be an eye-opener Five of the Cincinnati dancers are in this ensemble This will be last dance task in Lexington He has been hired as artistic director of Ballet Arkansas in Little Rock His wife Linda will become a principal dancer there and will teach ironic that at a time when the Lexington Ballet should be in the spotlight with a new season a new ballet mistress a new troupe of company members and four nights of free performances to show off it isn't a frustrating situation for the Lexington Ballet A summer program the group conceived to tease a big audience of potential Miller is a former member of the Lexington Ballet company Hathaway was the company's ballet master and associate artistic director Hathaway and Allen will dance the remaining pas de deux Other dancers on this program include Peter Suarez and Lance Hendrix formerly with the Lexington Ballet and Delilah Smyth a former Lexington Ballet member who will join the Louisville Ballet in the fall Also: David Cessler originally from Louisville and now a member of the Oregon Ballet Theatre Kara Bruzina Christy Campbell Jennifer Hummer and Kristen Cox of Lexington and Leslie LeBreck of Day-ton a guest dancer last year with the Lexington Ballet graduate of the Cincinnati School of the Performing and Creative Arts Allen is in her fourth season with the ballet Benson Rodriguez and Fu are soloists with the Cincinnati Ballet Allen and De La Nuez are in the ballet asps Benson and De La Nuez will dance a pas de deux by Tchaikovsky Allen and Jacob Sparso from Ballet Dallas in Texas will dance the Festival" pas de deux Dancing No a pas de deux by Vincent Falardo ballet master of the Louisville Ballet will be Kirt Hathaway artistic director of the Ballet Under the Stars program and his wife Linda Miller lav Herald-LeaderChartes Bertram Kristen Cox of Lexington will join a potpourri of dancers for Ballet Under the Stars 'CHESS'bZShet'tfZT'm'jn NEWYORKITIMES CROSSWORD No7 07261 SOLVE-IT AFTER 21 K02 Tal CORNER 8 Si i 7 6 HL 5 1 £1S I acaoss 1 Satellite launched in 1966 4 Antarctic cape Stairway post 14 Command to Fido IB Wrangler 21 Director Logan from Tex 22 Copyright violator 23 CAN NOW BE TOLD 2S Marketplaces 2B Old terms of BY NAHCY ATKINSONEDITED BY EUGENE MALESKA BS Copycat S3 Exemplar 84 Control buttom BS Jackie of The Paleface 87 Too fervent 1BI Aconcagua's location IBS Emit like Etna 184 Kurosawa epic IBS The the Golden West' 1938111m 197 THEY SPIED AN GUARDING A GROUP 119 BUT WITH THEY SNEAKED UP 112 Marathoner Markova a WWTE WINS THE QUEEN a Fischer BLACK TO PLAY Solution to Cor nen 1 Rh6ch! 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