OREGON BALLET THEATRE
2011-2012 Season

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GRACE SHIBLEY / COMPANY ARTIST
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Joined OBT in 2006

Grace Shibley
Photo by Joni Kabana

A native Oregonian, Grace Shibley received her training at the School of Oregon Ballet Theatre and Portland Metro Performing Arts. She joined OBT in 2006 as an apprentice and was promoted to the company in 2007. Shibley has performed lead roles in Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Afternoon of a Faun, and The Rite of Spring, as well as the Sugar Plum Fairy in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.

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FEATURES:

"Home Grown Charmer: OBT's Grace Shibley makes it look natural."
Pointe Magazine
December 2009

"A young Sugar Plum Fairy floats to fore"
The Portland Tribune, December 11, 2008

PHOTO GALLERY
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Rite of Spring Bolero 4 The Rite of Spring - 1 The Rite of Spring -3 Underwood
Underwood

 

FEATURED ROLES

George Balanchine’s
* Apollo
(Handmaiden)
* The Four Temperaments
(Third Theme)
* The Nutcracker
(Sugar Plum Fairy, Arabian)
* Rubies
* Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
(Striptease Girl)
* Who Cares?

Val Caniparoli’s
* Lambarena

Nicolo Fonte’s
* Left Unsaid

James Kudelka’s
* Hush

Peter Martins’
* Ash

Yuri Possokhov’s
* Firebird
* Raymonda
(Second Variation)

 

 

Jerome Robbins’
* Afternoon of a Faun
* The Cage
* The Concert
(Ballerina)

Christopher Stowell’s
* A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Helena)
* Eyes On You
* The Rite Of Spring
(Principal role)
* The Sleeping Beauty, Act III
(Pas de Quatre)
* Swan Lake
(Russian Girl, Big Swans)
* Zaïs

Kent Stowell’s
* Through Eden’s Gates

Christopher Wheeldon’s
* RUSH

 

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