Body Beautiful
October 13–20, 2012 / Keller Auditorium
Onsale 9/5/12
Apollo
Igor Stravinsky / George Balanchine
Orpheus Portrait
Franz Liszt / Kent Stowell
A World Premiere Work
TBD / Christopher Stowell
Second Detail
Company Premiere
Thom Willems / William Forsythe
The season opens with a program created in concert with the Portland Art Museum’s Fall 2012 Body Beautiful Exhibit, which explores the human form through exquisite objects from the British Museum’s famed collection of Greek and Roman sculptures. Balanchine’s 1928 neoclassical ode to godlike forms, Apollo, begins the program, followed by Kent Stowell’s re-imagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth as an intimate pas de deux in Orpheus Portrait. The evening continues with the second work of choreographic titan William Forsythe to enter OBT’s rep, Second Detail, which explores the dancer as superhuman. The evening culminates with a thrilling world premiere collaboration between Artistic Director Christopher Stowell and a NW visual artist selected with Portland Art Museum curator Bruce Guenther.
About the Exhibit: Premiering at the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Body Beautiful Exhibit makes its US Premiere in Portland, September through November at the Portland Art Museum. Subscribe by March 16th and receive a complimentary admission* to the exhibit.
*With purchase of 1 adult admission. One per household.
