OBT'S 2010/2011 SEASON GOES ON SALE THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH!

We'll email all the details about next season Friday morning, at which time season tickets will also be available for the first time. Subscribe early for the best seats!

IN THIS ISSUE:

• 2010/2011 SEASON ON SALE FRIDAY!
• FIRST THURSDAY AT THE PCPA
• DANCE TALKS

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
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FIRST THURSDAY AND A SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE 2010/2011 SEASON!

Stop in at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA) rotunda this Thursday, February 4, for a sneak peek at the 2010-2011 Season plus complimentary wine and light appetizers! Christopher Stowell will announce next season's program line-up and you'll be treated to a live performance featuring exceprts from A Midsummer Night's Dream and next season!

And while you're in the building, take a look around at OBT's 20th Anniversary art exhibit featuring photography and paintings inspired by the dancers of Oregon Ballet Theatre.

SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 4th / 6:00pm - 7:30pm
PCPA Rotunda & Art Bar / 1111 SW Broadway (at SW Main)

ABOUT THE ART EXHIBIT
An Emerald Anniversary Exhibit: Photography and Paintings Inspired by the Dancers of Oregon Ballet Theatre

Oregon Ballet Theatre welcomes the opportunity to showcase visual art inspired by our dancers. This exhibition includes twenty-one photographs and four paintings by seven artists.

Blaine Truitt Covert has photographed OBT from its founding to the present, and painter Mona Jones Cordell has followed the company for over a decade. Andy Batt and Alicia J. Rose have contributed their unique perspectives for several years, while Randall L. Milstein and James McGrew discovered OBT more recently. The earliest images included here are from 1995, though most of the photographs reflect the last few seasons.

Abigail Kaufman’s Tendu represents OBT’s Photo/Art Encounter program, an education outreach opportunity for high school and college visual arts students to draw and photograph the dancers as they take their daily company class.

All seven of the artists whose work appears here are uniquely sparked by the ephemeral splendor of dance to create in their own respective art forms.

DANCE TALKS

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Monday, February 22, 2010 / 7pm / Location TBD

Special guest Allen Nause, Artistic Director of Artists Repertory Theatre, will join Christopher Stowell to discuss Shakespeare's masterpiece from the differing perspectives of spoken and danced drama. Nause directed A Midsummer Night's Dream for Artists Rep, and co-directed a bilingual, bicultural production in Vietnam in 2000. Stowell condensed Shakespeare's complex narrative into his 55 minute danced version in 2007. They will enrich their discussion with comparative video excerpts of several scenes. OBT is delighted to offer this singular opportunity for dialogue across disciplines.

Photo: Alison Roper and Ronnie Underwood in Christopher Stowell's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Photo by Blaine Truitt Covert.