BY RACHAEL CARNES
Mosaica De Danza
at the Hult
B
VIDEO GAMES & THE FUTURE
OF EDUCATION
How are video games affecting students, and how will they impact the work-
place of the future? Want to know why researchers believe that games can be
good for kids?
Come to a public forum for answers to these and other questions about how
games are changing the way our kids learn.
6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13
Center for Meeting and Learning at Lane
Community College, 4000 East 30th Ave., Eugene.
Park in lot D.
No prior registration is required.
For more information visit www.bluemountainschool.com
Presented by:
allet Fantastique, under the artis-
tic direction of Donna Marisa
Bontrager, recently received a
grant through the Lane Arts Council to pro-
duce a collaborative Hult Center perform-
ance with Traduza Dance Company, a mod-
ern group based in Roseburg. Coupling
classical ballet with a Spanish flair and the
bossa nova beats of Truduza director
Valéria Ball’s native Brazil, Mosaico de
Danza, looks for a new rhythm that hovers
between the traditionally lyrical and the
rambunctiously sexy. Performance is at 7
pm on 10/15 in the Hult Center’s Soreng
Theater.
Spanish-inspired ballet variations
bridge the evening’s work.
Ballet
Fantastique shows off its plumage with ex-
cerpts from Don Quixote, one of the most
famous works of ballet great Marius
Petipa. Originally billed as a farce, Don
Quixote receives a fresh treatment by this
company, even as they lovingly emulate the
Kirov’s artistry.
Ballet Fantastique shows off its plumage with
excerpts from Don Quixote, one of the most
famous works of ballet great Marius Petipa.
Threading among the classical pieces,
Traduza Dance Company’s brand of
Brazilian modern dance enlivens with ac-
cessible sensuality and verve. The com-
pany’s choreography falls short of heavy-
weights like Petipa, but it’s likeable
nonetheless.
Gia Kourlas, The New York Times dance
critic, recently (7/12/05) lamented that con-
temporary ballet serves no one, that it sim-
ply combines the hubris of both modern
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dance and ballet. Shocking many but pleas-
ing some, too, Ms. Kourlas wrote, “As re-
gressive as it sounds, choreography might
be in a healthier place if the ballet world
went back to despising modern dance.”
Ballet Fantastique and Traduza Dance
shimmy around this roadblock by offering
a new perspective: allow audiences to find
the connections between the old and the
new, by showing ballet and modern in stark
relief.
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