Argentine tango dancer, instructor and musician Alex Krebs will be performing with Company Artist Grace Shibley at OBT’s upcoming Gala, Viva la Danza, on April 14th. Brook Manning, OBT Teaching Artist, sat down in Mr. Krebs’ tango studio to talk with him about his background, the process of setting a tango performance on a ballerina… Read More
Listen: The Lost Dance
Electroacoustic music composer Owen Belton likes to make dreamy, eery, often lush soundscapes that mix symphonic orchestrations and instruments with found sounds and more traditional electronic drones and beats. He specializes in commissions for dance, theater and film and has had a fruitful long term working relationship with Kidd Pivot choreographer Crystal Pite (who you… Read More
BACKSTAGE PASS: Draping The Lost Dance, Images from Adam Arnold Studio
Some ties in progress for the men in The Lost Dance. Fabric waiting to be draped. A dress begins to take shape. You can see the results of Adam Arnold‘s work in the world premiere of Matjash Mrozewski’s The Lost Dance , one of 4 short works in Oregon Ballet Theatre’s spring program, Chromatic Quartet,… Read More
Albert Schweitzer: The Humanitarian Who Inspired a Ballet
by OBT historian Linda Besant I’m the ballet historian at OBT, and many people know me as a total ballet geek. When they ask me, as they often do, “What’s your favorite ballet?” I’m stymied, because I love so many. But I do have a “must see list.” If a ballet on this list is… Read More
Listen: Lambarena
Every day at noon, Nobel Peace Prize winning humanitarian doctor Albert Schweitzer would play Bach cantatas on the organ at his home in Lambarene, in what is now Gabon, west Africa. A visitor to the community of Lambarene was likely to hear the drums and traditional polyphonic chants of the townspeople mingle with the organ… Read More
