Your Daily Dance Break: Singing in the Rain

A true classic that proves that all these rainy days we’ve had in Portland don’t have to be gloomy.

Your Daily Dance Break: A Contotionist Does a Yoga Inspired Dance

A quick survey of other dances inspired by yoga (like Nicolo Fonte’s Left Unsaid in our upcoming Song & Dance program) reveals the following: We think she must be made out of rubber. Don’t you?

The Life and Times of Anne Mueller Part Four: Anne on Christopher

OBT staffer Claire Willett sits down with Anne Mueller to talk all things Christopher Stowell – how she met him, how she would describe him in three words (HINT: she can’t), her favorite Stowell role, how she’s grown as a dancer over the past few years, and the one time she got to dance with […]

Your Daily Dance Break: Tanaquil LeClercq & Nicholas Magallanes | Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive

Today’s Daily Dance Break comes from the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Video Archive, an amazing online resource for historical dance video. It’s a Balanchine piece filmed at the Festival in the ’40s and well worth a look. The only downside? The archive doesn’t let you embed video so you’ll need to click on the link to […]

Your Daily Dance Break: In Honor of Spring, a Chinese Acrobat Butterfly Ballet

Send Anne Off With A Smile!

All week long, we’ve been sharing stories from Anne about her career, from her start at Washington Ballet to her work with the Trey McIntyre Project and her relationship with Christopher Stowell. Now it’s your turn to share. What was the first time you saw Anne dance? What’s your favorite Anne role? A memory from […]

Daily Dance Break: Fred and Ginger dance to Cole Porter

Our dancers are in studio this week rehearsing Christopher’s inspired Cole Porter romp “Eyes on You.” In honor of their hard work, here’s a look back at another pair of dancers taking on Cole Porter- in this case, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers!

Balanchine’s First Square Dance Caller

Gents go ‘round, come right back, Make your feet go wickety-wack . . . Crackerjack square dance caller Elisha Keeler was profiled in The New York Times and The New Yorker in 1957. Next thing you know, George Balanchine was making a new dance to the music of Baroque composers, prancing his City Ballet dancers […]

Your Daily Dance Break: Square Dance, the Lawrence Welk Version

We’ll be presenting Balanchine’s idea of a Square Dance as part of our Song & Dance program in April. So we thought you might enjoy a peek at traditional square dance (as interpreted by the dancers on the Lawrence Welk Show in 1968) Did you learn square dancing in P.E. as a kid?

The Life and Times of Anne Mueller Part Three: Fred the Duck

OBT staff members Linda Besant and Claire Willett sat down with Principal Dancer Anne Mueller (who retires from the stage and transitions to our artistic staff in May) to interview her about her life and career. Over the next few days we’ll be sharing with you some of her stories and anecdotes – from her […]