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Thumbnail for - Top Things to Do This Weekend: May 10–12
May 9, 2013
EVENTS
Interactive ballet, soulful psychedelia, and private dicks in trenchcoats liven up the local landscape.
Thumbnail for - Review: OBT's Swan Lake
Feb 19, 2013
DANCE
OBT’s third showing of Stowell’s take on the 1895 classic marks principal dancer Yuka Iino’s final swan song. Thru Feb. 23
Thumbnail for - Interview+Slideshow: Adam Arnold on Designing for OBT’s Spring Show
Apr 18, 2012
beyond the tutu
Choreographer Matjash Mrozewski takes members of the Oregon Ballet Theatre through the steps of The Lost Dance, which will be one of four dances in OBT’s Chromatic Quartet, April 19–28,...
Thumbnail for - Anne Mueller’s Ballet Memories
Apr 28, 2011
dance
This weekend, Anne Mueller will dance three pieces in Song And Dance: a noir-ish ensemble number with chairs (Left Unsaid ), an agressive hiphop throwdown pas de deux (Speak ) and a lighthearted...
Thumbnail for - Preview: NWDP
Mar 17, 2011
dance
Northwest Dance Project is probably best known for intimate, innovative performances and a steady stream of new work. Looks like their show this weekend, which bears the ambitiously no-nonsense...
Thumbnail for - Stravinsky Slideshow
Feb 28, 2011
dance
Last week, in anticipation of OBT’s Stravinsky Project , we geeked out on some online videos of other ballet companies performing Firebird and Rite of Spring. But now, we can share...
Thumbnail for - Visions of Sugarplums, Part II
Dec 28, 2010
Last weekend, we caught OBT’s Nutcracker at the Keller, complete with large-scale special effects and the rigors of Balanchine tradition. Now we’re in Beaverton, trying to hastily park on a...
Thumbnail for - Visions Of Sugarplums, Part I
Dec 26, 2010
“Dancer…dancer…” my Nutcracker date kept discreetly whispering as we surveyed the audience at the Keller. Here, a child’s head was elegantly aloft; there, a grandmother’s purse flashed a few...
Thumbnail for - NWDP Director Speaks Volumes
Sep 30, 2010
Fall Arts Extra
Culturephile note: Whilst gathering data for our Fall Arts Preview Anne Adams found that she had tons of material leftover from her interviews. Frankly, this stuff was too good to waste, so we...
Thumbnail for - NWDP Dancer Andrea Parson Wins Princess Grace Award
Aug 3, 2010
phile under: dance
Andrea Parson, who has just been named one of six U.S. dancers to receive the prestigious 2010 Princess Grace Award, (founded by Princess Grace of Monaco, aka, Grace Kelly of the silver screen),...
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