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Sarasota News Leader May 10, 2013 using academic ballet and jazz. More specifically, the same academic variation was danced by different groups then repeated with different music, varying and interchanging dancers and music like a game of checkers. The duet between Jamie Carter and Rita Duclos was the highlight of the ballet for me. Carter not only was an attentive partner, but he also danced with a rare abandonment in a series of solo leaps that crisscrossed the stage, while Duclos' authority added a dash of sophistication. Jamie Carter/Contributed photo Page 96 Honea used many younger and newer members of the company in the full cast of 14 dancers, and they responded with energy and easy smiles in a ballet that was clearly an exploration of movement that did not rely on a narrative story. This was a new direction for Honea in her development as a choreographer. The most ambitious ballet, Jamie Carter's Consortium, used 24 dancers in four movements; it was an audience favorite, but not mine. Set to a challenging quartet — George Rochbert's String Quartet No. 5 — and performed by Sean O'Neil on violin, Anne Chadra on violin, Nathan Frantz on viola and Nadine