Tick, tock… Final studio rehearsals today and tomorrow, and then tomorrow night we move to the theater to begin tech-ing for Saturday’s opening. The production crew has been there since yesterday, loading in, laying the floor, and setting cues. This show is going to keep everyone backstage on alert all night long since there are… Read More
Can it be?
Can it be? Four weeks back into the season already?? I can hardly remember that I was on layoff a month ago. We finished learning Emeralds on Friday. Elyse Borne has been here for the past week and a half staging the ballet (how fantastic to have her here again! Elyse staged Nutcracker for… Read More
Not a pointe shoe in sight
At least not for part of the day. Rehearsals have begun for Trey McIntyre’s Speak (1998), where us dancers get to ditch our ballet slippers/pointe shoes for sneakers and take a break from classical music to groove to the Bloodhound Gang. I am very excited to be a part of this work and very excited… Read More
Week Two
“Summer vacation” (if you can call it that!) has already faded into the distance as we plunge into the heady work of putting together the program for our first performances next month. Since this is a retrospective program, there are several excerpts from different ballets that need to be taught, learned, and rehearsed. I have… Read More
Summer Vacation? Not at OBT!
This summer seemed to be especially busy for all of our dancers. Artur and his wife had their first child, a very dedicated and generous group of dancers performed for FREE in locations all around Portland – from Washington Park with the Portland Cello Project, to a live art installation on Alberta for Last Thursday… Read More
