Emerald Anniversary Season

 

COMPANY

PRINCIPAL DANCERS
Yuka Iino
Gavin Larsen
Kathi Martuza
Anne Mueller
Alison Roper
Artur Sultanov
Ronnie Underwood

SOLOISTS
Candace Bouchard
Brennan Boyer
Ansa Deguchi
Adrian Fry
Steven Houser
Chauncey Parsons

COMPANY ARTISTS
Leta Biasucci
Martina Chavez
Andrea Cooper
Olga Krochik
Mia Leimkuhler
Matthew Pippin
Julia Rowe
Grace Shibley
Brian Simcoe
Christian Squires
Lucas Threefoot
Javier Ubell
Raychel Weiner



Company Bios
ANNE MUELLER / PRINCIPAL DANCER BACK TO
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Joined OBT in 1996 / Principal Dancer since 2007

Anne Mueller
Photo by Joni Kabana

 

Anne Mueller received her training from the Washington School of Ballet and from Dame Sonia Arova at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She received additional training with The Kirov Academy, Houston Ballet Academy, the Joffrey Workshop and the School of American Ballet. Ms. Mueller joined OBT in 1996 after three seasons with the Alabama Ballet. During her time with the company, she has most recently danced featured roles in works by George Balanchine, Nicolo Fonte, James Kudelka, Trey McIntyre, Yuri Possokhov, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Stowell and Christopher Wheeldon. During the summers of 2005-2007, Ms. Mueller toured nationally with the Trey McIntyre Project, also serving as the ensemble’s Managing Director from 2004 - 2006. Ms. Mueller's choreography was selected for Ballet Builders 2009 and has been performed by Arova Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Victoria and will be included in the Alabama Ballet's 2009-2010 season. Ms. Mueller holds the position of Artistic Coordinator at OBT and teaches in the School of Oregon Ballet Theatre.

Since joining OBT, Ms. Mueller has danced featured roles in:

Julia Adam’s

  • Angelo (Young Girl)
  • il nodo

Sir Frederick Ashton’s

  • Façade (Scotch Rhapsody)

George Balanchine’s

  • Agon (First Pas de Trois)
  • Apollo (Calliope)
  • Concerto Barocco (Second Violin)
  • Divertimento No. 15 (First Variation)
  • Duo Concertant
  • The Four Temperaments (Theme)
  • The Nutcracker (Dew Drop, Lead Marzipan)
  • Serenade (Dark Angel)
  • Who Cares? (I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise, Who Cares?)

James Canfield’s

  • Charmed Quark
  • Degas Impressions
  • Go Ask Alice
  • Jungle
  • Up

Charles Czarny’s

  • Concerto Grosso (Warm-Up, Tight Rope)

Nicolo Fonte’s

  • Bolero
  • Left Unsaid

James Kudelka’s

  • Hush (II)

Lar Lubovitch’s

  • Concerto Six Twenty-Two (Allegro, Rondo Soloist)

Peter Martins’

  • Calcium Light Night

Trey McIntyre’s

  • Aliss
  • Curipira
  • High Lonesome
  • Just
  • The Reassuring Effects of Form and Poetry

Bebe Miller’s

  • A Certain Depth of Heart, Also Love

Charles Moulton’s

  • Five (created role)
  • Chickens (Fred, the Duck)

Yuri Possokhov’s

  • La Valse
  • Raymonda (Third Variation)

Jerome Robbins’s

  • The Cage (The Novice)
  • The Concert (Angry Girl)

Christopher Stowell’s

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia)
  • Adin
  • Eyes On You (De-Lovely, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, I Get a Kick Out of You)
  • Opus 50
  • The Rite Of Spring
  • The Sleeping Beauty, Act III (Princess Florine, Pas de Quatre)
  • Swan Lake (Act I Pas de Trois, Two Swans, Act III Pas de Trois, Neopolitan)
  • Tolstoy’s Waltz

Kent Stowell’s

  • Duo Fantasy
  • Through Eden’s Gates (Nocturne)

Paul Taylor’s

  • Company B (Pennsylvania Polka)

Helgi Tomasson’s

  • Blue Rose (Blue Rose)

Christopher Wheeldon’s

  • RUSH (Demi-Soloist)
  • There Where She Loved (There Where She Loves, Surabaya Johnny & Merry-Making)


Read Feature Articles about Anne Mueller

"Ballerina in the Dell"
Critical Dance
March 2007

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