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Article: Ballet with a twist.(Arts and Literature)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2007
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Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard
Smaller is better.
That's the message that Eugene's tiny Ballet Fantastique wants audiences to get this weekend when the chamber ballet company - more on that term later - takes to the stage at the Hult Center.
"Ballet" so often means big: big stage, big production, lots of dancers, a full orchestra in the pit.
Ballet Fantastique, which opened a studio here in 2001 and became a nonprofit two years ago, is a company of six. They'll be performing in the little Soreng Theater instead of the giant Silva Concert Hall on Saturday and Sunday.
And, instead of having an orchestra in the pit, the ...