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2010/2011 Season

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ALISON ROPER / PRINCIPAL DANCER
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Joined OBT in 1996 / Principal Dancer since rankings established

Alison Roper
Photo by Joni Kabana

Alison Roper received her formal dance training from Boston Ballet School and the School of Oregon Ballet Theatre. She joined OBT in 1996 and was honored by Dance Magazine in 2002 as one of “25 to Watch.” She has spent her summers performing with the Trey McIntyre Project since 2005.

Featured Roles

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FEATURES:

"Roper Reaches Epicenter"
Critical Dance
April 2007

"A Disciplined Soul"
Dance Magazine
June 2006

PHOTO GALLERY
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Emerald Retrospective 4 George Balanchine's The Nutcracker - 4 George Balanchine's The Nutcracker - 5 A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream
Known By Heart Duet Known By Heart Duet Like a  Samba Raymonda_1 Raymonda_2
Bolero_1 Bolero_3 Bolero_4 Bolero_5 Dance_United_5
Oregon Ballet Theatre Lambarena The Concert - 2 RUSH - 2 RUSH - 4
RUSH - 5 07-08 Season - 1 07-08 Season - 3 07-08 Season - 6 Underwood
Underwood Zais - 2 Just - 1 Just - 2 Raymonda - 1
Raymonda - 2 Raymonda - 3 The Four Temperaments - 4 The Concert - 1 The Concert - 2
The Concert - 4 Nutcracker 06 - 4 Winter - 1 Winter - 7 Winter - 8
Underwood Underwood Underwood Underwood Summer - 5
Angelo - 1 Nutcracker 05 - 2 Just - 1 Almost Mozart - 2 Swan Lake - 1
Swan Lake - 2 Swan Lake - 3 Swan Lake - 4 Swan Lake - 8 Swan Lake - 9
Swan Lake - 12 Swan Lake - 13 Nutcracker 04 - 9 Impending Hour - 1 In The Night - 2
La Valse - 1 La Valse - 2 Duo Fantasy - 1 Duo Fantasy - 2 Rubies - 1
Rubies - 2 Serenade - 1 il nodo - 2

 

FEATURED ROLES
Since joining OBT, Ms. Roper has danced featured roles in:

Julia Adam’s

  • Angelo (Mother)
  • il nodo

Sir Frederick Ashton’s

  • Façade (Polka, Tango-Pasodoble)

George Balanchine’s

  • Apollo (Terpischore)
  • Concerto Barocco
  • Divertimento No. 15 (Third Variation)
  • The Four Temperaments (Choleric)
  • The Nutcracker (The Sugarplum Fairy, Dew Drop, Arabian)
  • Rubies
  • Serenade
  • Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Striptease Girl)
  • Who Cares? (I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise, Who Cares?)

Nicolo Fonte’s

  • Bolero

James Kudelka’s

  • Almost Mozart (Trio, Solo)

Peter Martins’

  • Ash

 

 

 

Trey McIntyre’s

  • Just

Yuri Possokhov’s

  • Firebird
  • La Valse (I, II)
  • Raymonda (Seventh Variation)

Jerome Robbins’s

  • The Concert (Ballerina)
  • In the Night (2nd Couple)

Christopher Stowell’s

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hippolyta/Titania)
  • Adin
  • Eyes On You (In the Still of the Night, Begin the Beguine, So In Love)
  • The Impending Hour (II)
  • The Sleeping Beauty, Act III (Princess Aurora, The Lilac Fairy)
  • Swan Lake (Odette/Odile, Russian)
  • Zaïs

Kent Stowell’s

  • Through Eden’s Gates (Paseo)

Paul Taylor’s

  • Company B (There Will Never Be Another You)

Christopher Wheeldon’s

  • RUSH (Central Pas de Deux)
  • There Where She Loved (Je Ne T’Aime Pas)

 

 

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