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Article: Ballet West rediscovered: holding onto its Utah roots while looking toward the future.
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- Dance Magazine
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- February 1, 2002
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Artistic Director Jonas Kage is revitalizing Ballet West's image and outlook while maintaining legacy of the Salt Lake City company's founder, the late Willam Christensen. While honoring the ballet classics, Kage is devoted to presenting the best of today's choreographers as well as the modern masterworks he once danced with a succession of top-rank companies. "I sometimes say, `It should not always be safe to go to the ballet,'" he says. * In this way, Kage follows the lead of Christensen, who shaped and guided Ballet West for fifteen years before he retired in 1978 (see Transitions, page 74). The artistic directorship passed from him to Bruce Marks, John Hart, and most ...
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