BACKSTAGE PASS: More Designing with Dancers

A second gorgeous pair of images from Adam Arnold as he investigates how to get his tailored, forward-thinking streetwear dance ready for Matjash’s piece in Chromatic Quartet. Lucas Threefoot puts Adam Arnold‘s clothes through their paces in the OBT Studios.  You can see Adam Arnold’s completed designs in the world premiere of Matjash Mrozewski’s The… Read More

BACKSTAGE PASS: Adam Arnold Prepares to Dress Dancers

Recently, respected Portland fashion designer Adam Arnold was commissioned to design the costumes for the world premiere work by Matjash Mrozewski that will be part of our upcoming Chromatic Quartet program. To begin the design process, Adam brought in some of his clothing samples from his line and asked Alison Roper and Lucas Threefoot to… Read More

Daily Dance Break: Misericordes (Elsinore)

Wrapping up Wheeldon Week is his work Misericordes (Elsinore) which he created at the Bolshoi Ballet based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In this article which describes a documentary film that was made while he created Misericordes (Elsinore) Wheeldon talks about some of his creative challenges during the process of making the ballet, and the difficulty he had… Read More

Daily Dance Break: Wheeldon Week “Carnival of the Animals”

Today we have Christopher Wheeldon’s Carnival of the Animals which he sets as a child’s dream of spending a night in the Museum of Natural History.  If you had to guess the order in which he created Polyphonia, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Carnival of the Animals which do you think came first and last… Read More