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By: Kazia Jankowski

Category: Panorama

Posted: February 13, 2009 4:23 PM

Tags: ENTERTAINMENT & NIGHTLIFE, drinking

Best Weekend Bet: <i>Love. A Joint Venture</i>

The child of a true artistic marriage (Ballet Nouveau Colorado joins with Lighthouse Writers Workshop), Love. A Joint Venture blends words and movement in a performance piece that's part modern ballet and part poetry reading. Both Lighthouse founder Michael Henry and Denver poet laureate Chris Ransick contributed writings, and BNC artistic director Garrett Ammon and Mark Godden, an internationally renowned Canadian choreographer, set them to leaps, twists, and fast-paced violin music. Fri-Sat 8 p.m., Sun 2 p.m. Pinnacle Events Center, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Federal Heights 303-999-1709, $26

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It was indeed an interesting performance. However, I think Michael Henry's poems worked a lot better than Chris Ransick's, partly because Henry's were integrated into the dance and told more specific stories that could be more easily acted (danced) out. Ransick's two poems, by contrast, were read while the curtain was down, and I kept wondering when the dancing was going to start. Finally, Mark Godden's choreography to David Rothman's poems was the weakest of the three. At times it seemed he was deliberately trying to oppose the dance to the poetry, and at other times the two seemed completely unrelated. It was an interesting experiment in combining poetry and ballet, but some of the choreographers had a better idea of what to do with the poetry than others.

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