Today’s Daily Dance Break is in honor of the thousands of children living with HIV that the Red Cross serves each year. This is a video from a benefit performance for the British Red Cross, featuring community children dancing. You can support the American Red Cross at this Friday’s performance of The Stravinsky Project. Just… Read More
Daily Dance Break: First Position. Harder than it Looks.
In honor of our newest dancers at our school, here is a gentle reminder that first position is not as easy as it looks on stage…
The Stravinsky Project is Open! What Did You Think?
We had a wonderful opening weekend performance for The Stravinsky Project, along with a glowing review from Martha Ullman West at The Oregonian. Here’s an excerpt: Stravinsky rocks, and so does Oregon Ballet Theatre. That was abundantly clear on Saturday night when the company opened its spring concerts at the Keller with an all-Stravinsky program… Read More
Daily Dance Break: Congratulations to Natalie Portman
In honor of Natalie Portman’s best actress Oscar win, here is that beautiful/terrifying moment when she turns into, well, a Black Swan…
Daily Dance Break: Kinetic Sculpture
Do you need the human body for it to be dance? Or could these mesmerizing, shifting steel forms be considered to be “dancing?” Kinetic Art – Dynamic Structure 29117 from Willem van Weeghel on Vimeo.
