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Article: Eugene Ballet Company, Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, Oregon, April 11-12, 1997.
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- Dance Magazine
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- August 1, 1997
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In the twentieth century, ballets with overt political content more often than not have been destined for failure; Kurt Jooss's The Green Table (1932) is a notable exception.
Still Folls the Rain, however, artistic director Toni Pimble's powerful commentary on the horrors of fundamentalist religion, delivers its message with an aesthetic subtlety that is far more effective than the graphic representations of bloody violence we see daily on the evening news or in movie theaters.
Accompanied by a score with spiritual overtones by contemporary American composer Patricia Van Ness, Rain is based on an incident that took place in Afghanistan when a man was ...
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...SILVA CONCERT HALL, HULT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ... not true of Pimble's Still Falls the Rain, which premiered last season. As far ... Eugene audience, soggy from relentless rain, to a place where ruffles would remain ...
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