“Rightly or wrongly, Baltimore has a reputation as being inhospitable to dance. … Troupes with national profiles have tried and failed to find a large enough audience here to support them. So when [Cem and Elysabeth Catbas] arrived in town in the summer of 2000 and announced plans to found a professional dance company, and said that they were going to do it on a budget about as big as a sequin, many observers were skeptical.”