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Evelyn Hart and David Peregrine
are featured In.the. Royal Win-

. rlpeg Ballet.

- Ballet dancers -
here March. 43°

“This is the beginning - a
way of opening up op-
* portunities to develop what
I've begun,” says Evelyn
Hart of her recent triumph, a
gold medal for her per-
formance, at the 10th In-
ternational Ballet Com-

_ Petitions in Varna, Bulgaria. .

‘David Peregrine, her

for Vesak's choreography.

These two principal
dancers with Canada's
Royal Winnipeg Ballet will
be featured in their award
winning dance at the REM
Lee Theatre on Friday,
March 13 along with the live
15-piece orchestra. Tickets
‘are on sale at Baron
Jewellers in- the Skeena
A member of the Royal

Winnipeg ‘Ballet since 1979,

Hart trained for three years

with David Moroni in the’

company's Professional
Programme. Beginning asa
member of the corps de

ballet, Hart's rise within the |

company was rapid. In the
1978-79 season she was
_ promoted to soloist and in
the following season she
bécame a principal dancer.

Hart has received coaching ©

from such famous names as
Zoloteva, Ludmilla
Bogomolova of the Bolshoi,
‘Jorge Garcia and Dame
Alicia Markova.

» “It was just amazing, the
reception from the crowd at
Varna," -continued Hart, °

“They just went cheering on

and on, and called ‘us back

, again and again, It wenton
.donger than any ovation we
_ have ever. received in
” Canada. ” .

‘Hart was speaking In (he :
rehearsal room of the Queen
Elizabeth Theatre, during a

‘break in her . warm-up
’ exercises just before her
performance with Peregrine

’ of Belong in David ¥.H. Liu's
gala ballet tour ‘Dance,
‘Dance, . Dance’ (a

celebration of the 75th an-

" giversary of the founding of
of Alberta).
Hart's face was ‘made up

“‘ooked - - every inch a
ballerina, But things bave

not always been 50 bright lor

“y seared. ballet rather

» late,’ abe confessed. “J took
“may frat ballet lessons at the

age of 14 at the Dorothy

Carter Dance School in

London, Ontario where 1

grew up. At that age many

ballet students, especially

girls, ‘have reached: a very

‘advanced stage and there I
was, just a beginner. When I

received a full scholarship to

.the National: Ballet School

two -years later I was, of
course, ‘delighted. Yet
somehow, although I tried, 1
did not really fit in there.

“T Jeff after only three
. months a.nd carried on with
"my high school education but
devoted ov" moment .
“of hig tat dance. 1

wasn't reacly to a

own) at thet stage, I needed
more personal en-
coiragement to stand . the
pace of all te hard work. It
Was & very * rdelicate balance
at that time: and I found I |
could beat get the support 1!
needed from|\my own family
who helped me in every way,

“Of things don’t
necessarily get any easier
when you become a better
dancer,” stoiléd Hart.
“There is.a lot of physical
and emotional fatigue. I find
it easier to cope: with the-
physical pain we as dancers
experience, than with the
mental strain.

“There is always the fear
of injury. Ever" time. dan-
cers go cut on. stage we feel
this could be thie day we
might have a fall which
could result in: an injury
ruinous to our career.

‘However, every dancer

Jearns to live with this idea.
but it never becomes’ any
easier, It is always there
with the added pressures of
rehearsals, performances,

touring schedules and, worst .

of all, the pressures you put
on yourself. .] am never
satisiled with my own
performance as 1 always
want to do better.
“Choreographers ‘create.
pressure: »Whea an per-
formance ‘goes . well
everything is fine but it's
very hard if it doeun’t.

That’s why 1 think dencera_

peed & responsive audience
aa every time we go out on
stage we are uncertain .us to
the reception we will have.
An unresponsive audhence
‘erentes a barrier which
anakes our work that much
harder but an audience that

Ԥa with us and makes. it

evident it is, allows us to get
on with our dancing. 7

“In Europe,” Hart con-
tinued, ‘we found it quite ©
common for an enthusiastic
audience to fill the stage with

‘S6e BALLET *

Page 9.

‘Peggy s Cove fisherman told
his wife he was salling for ..
Newfoundland and would
cali her on artiving.

the Rescue Co-ordination
Centre in Halifax. The
centre's commanding officer

roaring into the alr, trying to

. They found him two days
later, happily anchored in.
Halifax harbor with. his girl
friend.

Capt. D. K. (Kip) Powick,”

rescue centre’ in -
plex here, waa the man who
launched the search just
after assuming.command in
by the outcome.

Understandablyn he still
does not like it when he ‘and

stride.
with fishermen not leaving
tions of their vessels with the

authorities,” Powick said in
an interview.

- HALIFAX (CP) “the

When she didn’t hear trom
‘him, the frantic wife notified

sent ships to sea and aircraft -

locate the unfortunate chap.

officet-in-charge of the .
the.
Maritime Command’ com-

1977. He wasn't at all amused

his people are sent on wild-.

goose chases, but he has _

since learned to take them in
“Our biggest complaint is”

clear and concise descrip-

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Then there is the “massive
‘abuse’. of", ‘CB‘ -radio
frequencies atnong. boaters -

who" become: belligerent
when, rescue: personnel in-*

terrupt their chats to receive

and transmit potential tife-
Saving messages.
Powick © bristles ‘when :

someone mentions boats
lacking ‘adequate safety
equipment and Transport
Canada's apparent inability
to come up with a proper
battery for emergency
locator transmitters for light
sircraft, = * -

’ Use of the little devices has
been optional since the mid-

“1970s when it was learned the

batteries then used could ex-
plode in mid-air. The
government has not yet

. approved a replacement _

battery. wtqhis “relaxed
attitudé encourages airplane -

‘owners, to fy. without the.

transmitters.

"We are - spending

thousands of dollars locking -

for lost “planes,” Powick
said. ““Meanwhile, those
devices are mandatory in all
U.S. - elvil and : niilitary
sircrafi

Working “in. a craimped
dfice. festooned with ° huge
maps of the East Coast and
North Atlantic, Powick and
" his 16 men staff the centre in
“shifts 24 hours a day. Their
-area of responsibility is
huge, stretching from. the
high “Arctic . islands down
through ‘Riviere-du Loup,

Que., to Cape Cod-and about .
90 nautical miles into the marine emergencies. It also -frequent violators who keep

Atlantic. :

In all, the ceitre is respan-
- sihke. for more than 49,000
kilometres of coast line, -

-- When distress calli: ‘come’

‘Im, they maybe about a
small, or a vessel of some

“sort. No two distress calls

are the same.

“Saving - lives | is a
said = |,

" judgment . call,”
Powick. “In fact, 90 per cent

based on people's. personal
jodgment, known conditions,
‘topography and. geography
‘and:their own personal x

.”

perience.
" Tn 1980, the centre was re-

" sponsible for saving at least
250 lives and took. part in’
“more than 450 sir and £,200°

._ Soubled asa a “fying doctor’”

”: Newfoundland to
missing aircraft, big or..

many of them provoked b

“of all (the centre's), work ix :{uelor they catch a netin Uy

. when the temptation must be

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service: ‘by. crrdinating e
medical qian to the end
the end a
The " centre's, thrust,
however, still Hes at sea wi
two-thirds of all em se
being the marine variety ~}

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propeller, and we can't just a
leave them out. there,"! }

‘There are times, however,

strong to do just that with
people who constantly abuse ‘
the rescue centre's facilities,
‘ “We keep cards on the =:

needing, a tow,” he sald, vo

r real brag

$0 many of these ir inj uries.
could have been avoided: |
by'the tse of proper

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: whenever eye

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