The challenge of staging the ballet "Miss Julie" is transforming the play's dialogue into dance.

"The play is not a very long play, so the piece isn't so long," said Britt Friberg, just before rehearsal last week. "But the contents are all dialogue. And it is difficult to do dialogue in dance unless you mime, and that is a little boring."Brigit Cullberg's "Miss Julie" will be the final segment of Ballet West's season closer, "Evening of Ballets II." The performances will begin on Friday, April 7, in the Capitol Theatre. Curtain is 7:30 p.m.

Other works will include another Utah premiere -- Hans van Manen's "Solo" -- and Balanchine's "The Four Temperaments."

Friberg, who staged "Miss Julie" for Ballet West, said she is fond of this ballet because it was created 50 years ago but still has the flavor of a classical, contemporary ballet.

"It also has a naive style that tells the story of social class that can still be seen today," said Friberg, ballet mistress and assistant to the director of the Norwegian National Ballet in Oslo, Norway.

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"Miss Julie," based on August Strindberg's play of the same name, was choreographed by Cullberg in 1950. The world premiere was March 1, 1950, by Riksteatern, in Vaster

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