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Sarasota News Leader February 8, 2013 Page 82 capping this ballet d'occasion with a feeling Windsor were elegant, reflecting Hulland's of delight. regal bearing; and Login Learned was an able partner for Elizabeth Sykes, but his duet with The first surprise of the evening was Jamie Bertoni was the most intense and sexually Carter's reworked ballet, Between Longing suggestive. It reflected changing social attiand Yearning. Set to Bach's Chaconne in D tudes that could accept a sexually charged Minor, his ballet followed the architectural duet between two men, but I felt it became quality and structure of the music with an repetitious and could have been shorter. emphasis on controlled, geometric patterning as the dancers moved in unison or separated The final duet between Ricardo Rhodes and for five different duets. It is an intense ballet Christine Peixto was a pleasant and convenof different couplings set against a changing tional one that gave each of the dancers an backdrop lit to reflect the emotions of the opportunity to show their strengths. convoluted, acrobatic duets that were both There is no question that this ballet proves smooth and inventive. Jamie Carter is talented, but I wonder whethIn the different duets: Rita Duclos was fasci- er the work he is choreographing for the May nating and boneless as a snake, coiled around performances will reveal a developing aesRicki Bertoni; Victoria Hulland and Steven thetic. Logan Learned (left) and Ricki Bertoni perform a sexually charged duet in Between Longing and Yearning. Photo by Frank Atura