Christopher Stowell will be choreographing an all new world-premiere ballet set to the music of Bizet’s Carmen. Will it be set in Spain? He won’t say. Will Carmen be a cigarette factory girl? He won’t say. He will say that he and Nicolo Fonte (choreographing the world premiere Petrouchka that will share the same program… Read More
Top SECRET: In Search of A Few Good Hams
We could use a few good hams willing to look a little silly and fun for a great cause. It’s for a social media project we are doing this summer. Got a few hours to spare tomorrow (Saturday)? Want to earn a pair of tickets to the ballet? Read on. What: Super Top Secret Video… Read More
Your Daily Dance Break: The First Lady Helps Get Kids Moving!
This just in from The Daily Swarm: Michelle Obama teams up with Beyonce to get school kids dancing… and gets caught dancing herself! What a tremendous program and what a brave First Lady! http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf
“People Like a Little Glamour”
Lifelong musical theatre geek Claire Willett interviews Christopher Stowell about her all-time favorite work in the OBT rep: Stowell’s sparkling, sexy, witty Cole Porter ballet Eyes On You. Christopher Stowell. Photo by Joni Kabana. What inspired Eyes On You? How did you come up with the idea? Well, the practical reason was doing something… Read More
Gargouillade and Entrechat: the Filigree Footwork of Square Dance
by Linda Besant“More steps per minute than any other show in town,” said dance writer Nancy Reynolds of Square Dance. For fifty years, audiences have been wowed by this non-stop ballet: “Tempos that could only be called lickety-split.” (Manchester, 1958) “Filigree footwork that requires the most astonishing technical dexterity.” (Kaplan, 1988) “The speed of the… Read More
