Out-of-the-ordinary CT Valentine events from a slasher film to Surrealist games

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Out-of-the-ordinary CT Valentine events from a slasher film to Surrealist games

Connecticut Ballet has been presenting its “Be My Valentine” dance concerts nearly every February for over a decade. This year, the company’s founder and artistic director Brett Raphael decided that the event felt too hoity-toity and he wanted it to be more intimate. “It felt overproduced, overformal,” Raphael said. “We wanted a different vibe, something more approachable, where people didn’t feel they had to dress up. It’s a younger audience we…