Instead, this small and ambitious troupe commissions pieces from outside dance makers, often little-known, and helps those artists develop by inviting them back.
But "Wendy and Lucy," released by Oscilloscope Laboratories, a small and ambitious new distributor started by Adam Yauch, a member of the Beastie Boys, would have looked a little awkward alongside the other Academy Award nominees.
Now, however, all that is changing, and rapidly.The big six British and foreign companies (alongside the former state monopoly, British Gas) that bought up the retail energy business after liberalisation in the late 1990s are being challenged by a wave of small, nimble and ambitious new companies.
Small and swarthy, ambitious and devious, but a leader of the moderate Roman Catholic faction called the Politiques, he secured in the general Treaty of Beaulieu (May 6 , 1576 a group of territories that made him duc d'Anjou.
They seem small and not ambitious".
But the kitchen is caught in a different sort of warp, between big and small, between ambitious and wedding-supper ordinary.
A more intriguing story can be found in the smaller and less ambitious Jeanne d'Arc, a hand-held strategy role-playing game that fancifully reinvents the Joan of Arc story.
His greatest book, a monumental Oxford Lectern Bible of 1935, is the noblest edition of the Bible ever issued in English; his smaller and less ambitious efforts, often decorated with the typographic ornament at which he was a master, possess enormous wit and charm.
What is not clear to me is whether Mr Henley thinks that the ENO can offer a programme of the same (or better) artistic quality as it has in the past with a significantly reduced subsidy, or whether he accepts that ENO's programme will be smaller and less ambitious.
And in a final blow, a representative from Japan, until now the project's staunchest supporter, floated designs for a smaller and less ambitious machine--a roughly half-price version that has been dubbed an "ITER Lite".
This is a small but thought-provoking and ambitious show.
