Did you see Chromatic Quartet on opening weekend? We want to hear what you think in the comments below! Which piece was your favorite? Do you want one of those dresses from Chromatic Quartet? Did the Stravinsky Violin Concerto make you feel closer to Balanchine? Interested in seeing more from Christopher Wheeldon? Do tell. Here’s […]
April 18, 2012
The costumes for The Lost Dance are loaded in to The Newmark for tomorrow night’s opening night of Chromatic Quartet. Before he sent them off, Adam Arnold shared a few final pictures of the costumes coming together. Here’s a peek:
April 12, 2012
The Newmark Theatre is a wonderful venue for dance and the box seats make you feel like the whole performance is being given just for you. There’s a reason they used to be reserved exclusively for titled nobility. They’re THAT good. Score your own VIP experience and win a pair of box seats for the […]
April 6, 2012
Company Artist Makino Hayashi takes the spotlight. Choreographer Matjash Mrozewski with soloist Brian Simcoe. Soloist Javier Ubell leaps into action. Company Artist Grace Shibley and Soloist Lucas Threefoot find the balance point in a pas de deux. Intense focus is required to synthesize new elements of choreography while also staying committed to the current moment. […]
April 4, 2012
Electroacoustic music composer Owen Belton likes to make dreamy, eery, often lush soundscapes that mix symphonic orchestrations and instruments with found sounds and more traditional electronic drones and beats. He specializes in commissions for dance, theater and film and has had a fruitful long term working relationship with Kidd Pivot choreographer Crystal Pite (who you […]
April 3, 2012
Some ties in progress for the men in The Lost Dance. Fabric waiting to be draped. A dress begins to take shape. You can see the results of Adam Arnold‘s work in the world premiere of Matjash Mrozewski’s The Lost Dance , one of 4 short works in Oregon Ballet Theatre’s spring program, Chromatic Quartet, […]
April 2, 2012
by OBT historian Linda Besant I’m the ballet historian at OBT, and many people know me as a total ballet geek. When they ask me, as they often do, “What’s your favorite ballet?” I’m stymied, because I love so many. But I do have a “must see list.” If a ballet on this list is […]
March 30, 2012
Every day at noon, Nobel Peace Prize winning humanitarian doctor Albert Schweitzer would play Bach cantatas on the organ at his home in Lambarene, in what is now Gabon, west Africa. A visitor to the community of Lambarene was likely to hear the drums and traditional polyphonic chants of the townspeople mingle with the organ […]
March 28, 2012
Every once in a while, a dancer and a choreographer just hit it off. A creative spark occurs that can turn into years of inspired partnership. Christopher Wheeldon describes it like this: “There are times in your life,” says Wheeldon, “when you find dancers who speak your language. They start to turn your language into […]
March 28, 2012
On the cusp of his career as a professional ballet dancer, Christopher Wheeldon scored a cheap ticket to New York City that came with the purchase of a Hoover vacuum cleaner. He headed straight for the New York City Ballet. He explains, ”I walked into Peter Martins’s office with a videotape and said, ‘And by […]
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April 20, 2012
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