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Layne Christensan

News Reporter
layne@nsnews.com
CHAN Hon Goh will
return to the Vancouver
stage Thursday in the
-. National Ballet’s new
interpretation of Swan
‘ Lake. ve
‘For one night only, the .
‘West Vancouverité will dance
_. the dual role of Oderte-Odile
, (the white and the black
* \swan), considered to, be bal-
~.“lev’s most. challenging part.
>. During the Vancouver -
run, the role will also be
anced by National Baller
.dancers Greta Hodgkinson -
(Oct. 6), Xiao Nan Yu. (Oct.
. 8) and ‘Jennifer Fournier ~

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In his new interpretation
of Swan Lake, National Ballet
artistic director James

_ Kudelka pays homage to

prior versions of the century-
old ballet classic.

Yet at the same time, he’s
updated it for modern audi-

. ences with challenging new,

faster-paced choreographi
and Vitalized it with the cle:
ments of chaos, confusion
and uncertainty.’

Kudelka created his
Odette-Odile for
Hodgkinson, who danced the
role at the ballet’s world pre-

-@ances with swans

Kudelka’s muse but Goh —
who left Vancouver and her
parents’ Goh Ballet Academy
11 years ago to join the
National — is surely the
hometown favourite.

Ballet British Columbia
presents the Vancouver pre-
miere of The National Ballet
of Canada’s Swan Lake at the
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Oct. 6 to 9. Performances are
at 8 p.m. Tickets range from
$20 to $59, with discounts
for students and seniors,
available through
Ticketmaster at 280-3311.

GRETA Hodgkinson dances Odette to Aleksandar Antonijevie’s Siegfried (lett

and Rex Harrington's Rothbart in the National Ballet production of

Swan Lake.