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Sarasota News Leader February 22, 2013 Page 123 SARASOTA BALLET TO SHOWCASE DIVERSITY OF BALLET Sarasota Ballet Director Iain Webb ���is reprising three unique and beautiful pieces��� from the past for the company���s fifth performance of the 2012-2013 season, the Ballet has announced. young people meet, flirt and part, this classic was intended to showcase the chemistry and technical virtuosity of those who dance within the solos and pas de deux, the release notes. Staged by Margaret Barbieri, Les Rendezvous is set to the interlude of a popular French opThis program ��� Ashton, Tudor, Walsh ��� will offer audience members three different styles era, L���Enfant Prodigue. of ballet, a news release notes. Highlighting Following the cheery choreography of Les classical ballet through Sir Frederick Ashton���s Rendezvous will be Tudor���s Lilac Garden. Les Rendezvous, storytelling ballet with Ant- ���With a straightforward but emotionally poony Tudor���s Lilac Garden and a contempo- tent plot, this ballet follows the story of a rary ballet with Dominic Walsh���s I Napoletani, young woman who attends a lilac-scented parProgram Five ���is sure to have something for ty on the evening before her marriage of coneveryone,��� the release adds. venience,��� the release continues. With her bePresented at the Florida State University Cen- trothed, her lover and a mystery woman also ter for the Performing Arts, Ashton, Tudor, at the social gathering, the quartet of crossed Walsh will open on March 1 and run until lovers passes among the guests ���in a series of brief encounters of passion and frustration March 3. that are displayed in dramatic lines and lifts,��� Originally performed by The Sarasota Ballet it points out. in 2010, Les Rendezvous will be the first ballet danced during Program Five, the release ���Tudor���s works always favor a deeply felt husays. ���A light-hearted suite of dances in which man and psychological truth,��� says Webb in The Sarasota Ballet will perform Les Rendezvous as part of its Ashton, Tudor, Walsh performances March 1-3. Photo by Frank Atura