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.

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)

Read Feature Articles about Alison Roper

"Roper Reaches Epicenter"
Critical Dance
April 2007

"A Disciplined Soul"
Dance Magazine
June 2006

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