Live Review: Oregon Ballet Theatre's Left Unsaid.

By KELLY CLARKE
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Nicolo Fonte.
Left Unsaid, a truly wonderful 2003 work for six dancers that
Oregon Ballet Theatre
Left Unsaid
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
Tarantella
Hush
Bolero
His contemporary take on ballet is silky and muscular, and he delights in finding new ways to use people as launch pads.
Left Unsaid
Artur Sultanov
Brian Simcoe
Steven Houser
pas de
four
Anne Mueller
Daniela DeLoe
Yuka Iino
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Unsaid
Slowly each one stretches up and back, their heads and arms lolling over the edge of their chair, legs splayed out in front of them like a pair of drunk starfish.
Left Unsaid
Stowell
and
Vertiginous
Tarantella
frenzied Italian peasant dance.
Ansa DeGuchi
Chauncey Parsons
Left Unsaid
Hush.
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Javier Ubell
Rodney Sharman
Left Unsaid
looked oddly like the sirens from the '80s video game Kid Icarus
pas de deux
Hush
Hush
Almost Mozart
here
In terms of growing sophistication and artistry, the company is only getting better and better, even as its budget shrinks
Oregon Ballet Theatre performs their spring program,
at the
Newmark Theatre
, 1111 SW Broadway., 248-4335. 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, April 25-26. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, April 23-26. $15-$122. All ages. Visit obt.org or ticketmaster.com for tickets.
Images of OBT's spring program by Blaine Truitt Covert courtesy of OBT.

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