WEEK FIVE: “E Is For Energy” (Thursday)

September 8, 2011

Coffee Break With the Ballet

WEEK #5: Thursday

One more day until the weekend!  On today’s Coffee Break With the Ballet we’ve got another installment of “Stars of OBT” and another “Random Thursday Question” to entertain you and give your brain a little end-of-the-week mini-vacation.

Stars of OBT: “Deportment of Energy” *

When a dancer’s performance has you sitting on the edge of your seat, energy is what makes the difference.  Check out these breathtaking leaps from four of OBT’s most energetic artists – they know how to put on a show!

Javier Ubell in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at OBT  (Photo: Blaine Covert)

Candace Bouchard in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at OBT  (Photo: Blaine Covert)

Chauncey Parsons in Firebird at OBT  (Photo: Blaine Covert)

Julia Rowe & Olga Krochik in Square Dance at OBT  (Photo: Blaine Covert)

Random Thursday Question

If you could take a break in the middle of the work day to do absolutely anything you wanted for five minutes, in order to recharge yourself, what would you do?  (Keep it clean, people, this is a family blog.)

*I know, you guys.  WORST PUN EVER.  I couldn’t help myself.

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About Claire

Writer Claire Willett is the Grants & Content Manager for Oregon Ballet Theatre. She is the 2011 Oregon Literary Fellow for Drama and was the Summer 2011 Writer-in-Residence at the I-Park Artists Colony in East Haddam, CT. Three of her plays have been produced as staged readings in Portland’s annual Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. Her fourth, entitled "Dear Galileo," will be produced as a staged reading in January 2012 by Artists Repertory Theatre, funded by a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission. Her next project is a chamber opera based on Norse mythology co-written with Los Angeles composer Evan Lewis. Claire has a B.A. in Theatre from Whitman College in Washington and attended the Paul A. Kaplan Theatre Management Program at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City. She is obsessed with coffee, Watergate, vintage dishes, English mystery novels, Leonard Cohen, "Star Wars," afternoon naps, obscure Catholic saint lore, dinosaurs and Christmas.

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