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A Roundabout Way to Ballet: 'Sawdust Palace'

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Photo by Rosalie O'Connor/TWP
CHOREOGRAPHER SUSAN MARSHALL designed this 90-minute ballet, "Sawdust Palace," to be performed inside a Spiegeltent, which is a large mirrored tent popular in turn-of-the-century Belgian carnivals.

It may surprise you that the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center doesn't just have a Spiegeltent lying around. However, this series of short pieces inspired by vaudeville and cabaret is performed in the round, as a concession to its origins. It performs Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with a Saturday matinee at 3 p.m.

»Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University Boulevard and Stadium Drive, College Park; 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.; $7-$35; (301) 405-2787. (College Park).

Photo by Rosalie O'Connor/The Washington Post

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