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JANUARY 28, 2013 Volume 46, Issue 1396 www.thecurrent-online.com ‘Moulin Rouge’ ballet high kicks at Touhill ERIC NIPP AND AMANDA GREEN IN ‘MOULIN ROUGE - THE BALLET.’ PHOTO: BRUCE MONK CATE MARQUIS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF What do you think of when you version of Edith Piaf’s signature usually fats and backdrops at the Toulouse-Lautrec’s Moulin Rouge seductive “Claire de Lune” by hear the words “Moulin Rouge?” “La Vie En Rose,” revealing a screen edge of the stage, leaving it clear for posters, danced on Friday with Dovgoselets and Sundermeier on a Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings and depicting a turn-of-the-century the dancers’ athletic pyrotechnics, energy and style by Sophie Lee. set that included a bridge and steps posters? Dancing the can-can? Te Paris street scene. Tis screen was but “Moulin Rouge” calls on its Te frst half of the ballet is comic before the nighttime Paris sky and a 2001 Baz Luhrmann movie? then backlit and rose, revealing a dancers to dance on and around and romantic, while the second light-bedecked Eifel Tower. “Moulin Rouge - Te Ballet” set of a Parisian sidewalk cafe and stairs, tables, moving easels and half becomes dramatic, with a love Tere is an emphasis on has all that, plus graceful ballet skyline as the dancers came onstage. garret towers. triangle between Matthew, Nathalie the acting as well, with Oleskii dancers, gorgeous sets and costumes Te audience was immediately Te ballet tells the romantic and Zidler. Potomkin’s jealous Zidler being a and classical music favorites. Dance charmed. tale of two young people set in the Te frst act features a wonderful particular stand-out. In both acts, St. Louis, the dance presenting “Moulin Rouge” combines Parisian world of Toulouse-Lautrec, “dueling painters” dance by Mino the dance pieces worked as well organization, brought Canada’s elements of theater with the grace the can-can and the famed Moulin and Dovgoselets that used large, as theatrical scenes as they did as Royal Winnipeg Ballet dance and beauty of ballet. Te sets rival Rouge nightclub. Matthew (danced rolling easels and an artist’s model impressive dance performances. troupe’s high-kicking, colorful Broadway and ballet’s usual tights by Dmitri Dovgoselets at the Friday draped around a coat rack. Mino’s Much as Opera Teater’s and highly entertaining dance and tutus are replaced by something evening performance), a young artist dancing consistently astounded theatrical approach has drawn new extravaganza to the Blanche M. more like lush period costumes. But just arrived in Paris, is befriended by throughout the ballet as he launched audiences to that art form, “Moulin Touhill Performing Arts Center’s the dancing is ballet artistry, with Toulouse-Lautrec (Yosuke Mino). himself high for lightning-fast twirls Rouge - Te Ballet” electrifes Anheuser Busch Performance Hall the RWB dancers on their toes to Te young artist meets Nathalie and lifted ballerinas taller than new audiences while bringing for three performances Jan. 25 - 26. popular selections of classical music (Jo-Ann Sundermeier), a young himself. them to the art of ballet. Jorden At the nearly sold-out Friday from composers such as Debussy, laundress whose dancing has just Te scene inside the Moulin Morris’s choreography has charmed night performance, Dance St. Ravel, Straus, Shostakovich and landed her a spot in impresario Rouge contains an energetic can-can audiences around the world and the Louis put the audience in the mood Ofenbach. Tese dancers astound Zidler’s (Oleskii Potomkin) Moulin to Ofenbach’s music but also some RWB dancers’ high-quality artistry by playing audio clips from the with their leaps, spins and graceful Rouge can-can revue. of the most impressive high-kicks cast a similar spell at the Touhill for Luhrmann flm before the dancers dance steps, which seem somehow Te ballet’s cast of characters and lifts in the ballet. Te frst act a delightful night of entertaining took the stage. Te curtain rose more impressive when danced also includes La Goulue, the ends with a romantic pas de deux, magic through dance. to the sounds of an instrumental in Victorian attire. Ballet sets are top-knotted redhead featured in beautifully danced to Debussy’s NEWS FEATURES A&E SPORTS INSIDE: PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 6 2 Volume 46, Issue 1396 www.thecurrent-online.com CALENDAR What’s Current EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief .................................... Cate Marquis “What’s Current” is the weekly calendar of UMSL campus events and is a free service for student organizations. Submissions must be turned in by 5 p.m. the Managing Editor ................................. Sharon Pruitt Thursday before publication; frst-come, frst-served. Listings may be edited for length and style. E-mail event listings to [email protected], with the News Editor ........................................ Sharon Pruitt subject “What’s Current.” No phone or written submissions. Features Editor ................................. Anya Glushko Sports Editor .................................... Leon Devance A&E Editor ............................ David Von Nordheim MONDAY, JANUARY 28 Pack the Stands Opinions Editor ..................................... Hali Flintrop 5th annual “Pack the Stands” features free food, door prizes, and face Copy Editor ........................................ Sarah Novak What Would You Do for a Subway Sandwich? painting, or sign up your student organization for a chance to win a $500 Casey Rogers programming co-sponsorship during the Spirit Competition, in Mark What people will do for a Subway Sandwich? Find out at this University Twain Gymnasium. Activities begin during the UMSL Women’s game at Staff Writers ............ Sean Cristea, Carolyn Hoang Program Board event, 11 a.m. on the Nosh stage, lower level of the 5:30 p.m. and continue through the UMSL Men’s game at 7:30 p.m. as the Albert Nall, Hung Nguyen Millennium Student Center. For information: Katie Green or other UPB Tritons take on Quincy. FREE to all UMSL students, faculty, staff and Paul Peanick, Matt Poposky member at 314-516-5531 or facebook.com/umslUPB. children under 6. For information: Offce of Student Life at 314-516-5291 DESIGN STAFF Town Hall: The Academic Array or www.umsl.edu/studentlife. Designer .................................................. Jenny Lin and Innovative Teaching AIGA Student Group: Carlos Zamora Lecture Photo Editor .............................................. Jenny Lin The frst of three town hall meetings, 2-4 p.m. in Boeing Auditorium, Carlos Zamora, an illustrator and designer who works for Kiku Obata, Web Editor ......................................... Cate Marquis Marillac Hall, which are an opportunity for the campus to speak directly to gives a lecture for UMSL AIGA student group members, 7-8 p.m. in Fine Staff Photographers ....................... Leon Devance the chancellor and provost about setting priorities for the university’s Arts Building, Room 220. For information: Katherine McPeak at 314-516- strategic plan. 6967 or www.facebook.com/groups/aigaumsl. BUSINESS STAFF For information: Patricia Dolan at 314-516-5303 or www.umsl.edu/ services/academic. Business Manager ............................ John Wallace FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Advertising Director .......................... Sarah O’Brien Welcome Back Dinner and Ping Pong Tourney Distribution Manager ........................... Mavis Hollis UMSL’s 50th Anniversary Jubilee Kickoff The free spaghetti dinner will begin at 6 p.m. followed by Ping Pong Adviser ............................................. Charlotte Petty UMSL will celebrate its 50th anniversary throughout 2013. Kick off our Tournament at Catholic Newman Center. yearlong celebration is 6:30- 10 p.m. in Blanche M. Touhill Performing For information: Rachelle Simon at 314-385-3455 or www.cncumsl.org. CONTACT US Arts Center, with a spectacular evening of entertainment and fun featuring a presentation by bestselling author and critically acclaimed motivational Mailing Address ..................................... 388 MSC WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30 speaker Shep Hyken, a champagne reception, music by The Fabulous 1 University Blvd Motown Review and a freworks display. Frank Cusumano, sports anchor St. Louis, MO 63121-4400 Compliment Day at KSDK (Channel 5) in St. Louis and a UMSL alumnus, serves as master of ceremonies. This is a free, but ticketed event. Pick up tickets at Touhill Newsroom ....................................... 314-516-5174 Keep an eye out for compliments from UPB, posted on sticky notes [email protected] around campus, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Watch for “ask me for a compliment ticket offce. Limit four tickets. For information: Cindy R. Vantine at t-shirts” and don’t hesitate to ask for a compliment, because you deserve it. 314-516-5442 or www.umsl.edu/kickoff and http://Logs.UMSL.edu/ Business/Advertising ................... 314-516-5316 For information: Scott Morrissey or other UPB member at 314-516-5531