Kasandra Gruener, OBT’s Director of Education and Outreach, is celebrating her 40th year of teaching dance. She sat down with OBT teaching artist Brook Manning to discuss a career that has touched over 20,000 students. Read More
Maintaining Your Instrument
How do you maintain your instrument? Do you dust it every once in a while? Do you tune it? Do you replace mallets, old strings? We dancers do all of these things in order to maintain our body (although the less replacing we have to do, the better), and for all of us, maintenance is… Read More
And the Land of the Sweets Winner is…
…Allie Maki Maya with this Oregon inspired coffee laced recipe: Coffee Toffee with Oregon Hazelnuts 1 cup (2 sticks or 8 ounces) butter 1/2 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons molasses (can swap corn syrup or honey) 1/4 teaspoon salt (or a heaping 1/4 teaspoon flaky sea salt) 1 1/2… Read More
Welcome To the Land of Sweets
Welcome To the Land of Sweets A Menu of Delectable Confections Inspired by George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker Tickets are on sale now for George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at OBT. Grab yours early to get the best seats and beat the holiday rush! It’s November, which means the season of holiday feasting is upon us with… Read More
Enjoy Family Day at the Portland Art Museum Nov 4th with OBT
Here’s all the details on this fantastic interactive art experience around The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece Exhibition that will feature opportunities for kids to “kinesthetically explore” the exhibition’s artworks with the assistance of OBT’s teaching artists.