"A lot people think ballet is stuffy and boring," said choreographer and producer Candace Brouchard, introducing the second installment of "Uprising," a collaboration between the Oregon Ballet Theater and local pop musicians. "I'm here to show you that it's not."
Brouchard went on to encourage the Sunday evening Aladdin Theater audience to have a beer, and even to shout out when they were feeling it—the dancers feed off that sort of energy, she explained.
So I suppose, in a way, Brouchard was right—Uprising wasn't stuffy. But it wasn't radical either.