Ballet + folk + beer = Uprising.

By KELLY CLARKE
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get over to Mississippi Studios and see Uprising
,
Oregon Ballet Theatre
Horse Feathers.
aims to show the non-tutu crowd that classical dance doesn't have such a stick up its collective butt.
OBT soloist Candace Bouchard
Not everybody wants to sit in a 3,000 seat theater for three hours [to watch a show]
But if "dance education" in the future is going to equal intimate, in your face dancing with live backing from great bands in places where I can drink beer. then, by all means, I will back up the idea that we are still all hopeless, culturally bereft rubes.
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"TRES LEG! We love tres leg. How...how..how do you say foot in Spanish?"
do
GO:
Uprising at
Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm Thursday, Nov. 5. $15. Info at obt.org/uprising.
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