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Show COPPELIA RETURNS AS SPRING BALLET OFFERINGBy popular demand the University Ballet did a return engagement of the well-loved ballet Coppelia as its Spring offering. Coppelia was done by the ballet group two years ago and there were many calls for an encore. Written by Leo Delibes and choreographed by the head of the Ballet Department, Mr. William Christensen, the full corps de ballet of over seventy entranced the audience with a full evening of comedy and beautiful dancing.An excellent expression of faith in the department was the fact that Mr. Christensen decided to do the difficult ballet in its entirety without importing any famous stars to dance the leads, giving these parts instead to some of the local dancers, all of whom gave excellent performances.On alternate evenings Barbara Blanchard and Shirley White danced the part of Swanhilda and Coppelia. Phil Keeler and Rocky Spolstra replaced each other in the part of Dr. Coppelius, the toy maker, who makes such lifelike dolls, that one of the local youths, by name Franz, falls in love with one. Swanhilda takes the place of the doll, and wins back her love. The part of Franz was danced by assistant director Gordon Paxman. Other leads were danced by Fred Schwab and Karen Shores, both teaching assistants in the department. |
