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Sarasota News Leader May 10, 2013 Page 95 Kristen Kemp at the piano — was an inspired, the others. Overall, kudos to Bertoni, who has a light touch and a sense of humor (playing entertaining choice. with the hats, for example) and is interested The opening shoulder rolls, the nonchalant atin exploring the possibility of blending two titude, the black bowler hats and white gloves dance vocabularies: classical ballet and jazz. were obviously Bertoni's nod to Bob Fosse's However, Ragtop needed editing and more fohip-swirling, fast-moving, detailed choreogracus to be entirely successful. phy — but only a nod. Though there was a cast of 12 dancers, there was not much indi- Kate Honea's Baroque and Blues, set to viduality in the ballet until the five boys com- Claude Bolling's music of the same name — peted in a traditional dance-off with a series of and played on stage by Betsy Traba on flute, acrobatic turns, each of them adding another Kirsten Kemp on piano, John Miller on bass twist and another turn in an attempt to outdo and Tihda Vonghoth on drums — flirted with Kate Honea/Contributed photo