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Ballet and dance

The Vaganova school, Beriozka, Estonian folk dance, and the people who teach it here.

5 masters · 2 guests · 5 schools and studios · 6 evenings ahead

People

Guests of the season

Schools, studios and ensembles

On stage

ESTET pickSaturday, November 14 · 7:00 PMSwan Lake with Live OrchestraWorld Ballet Company brings Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake with a live orchestra: fifty dancers and the Black Swan’s thirty-two fouettés.World Ballet CompanyNewmark Theatrefrom $80.70HeritageSaturday, December 12Dec 12–13The Nutcracker by Sultanov Ballet AcademyThe holiday Nutcracker from Artur Sultanov's ballet academy. A Vaganova graduate, Sultanov danced with the Mariinsky and was a principal at Oregon Ballet Theatre. Recommended for ages four and up; no late seating.Artur SultanovLake Oswego High School Auditorium · Lake Oswego$25–35Saturday, December 12 · 10:00 AMDec 12–13ScanFair: a Nordic Christmas marketThe 42nd ScanFair: lussekatter and cardamom buns, lefse, aquavit, Finnish and Swedish folk music, a choir singing in five Nordic languages, and Lucia.TulehoidjadOregon Convention CenterFriday, February 5 · 7:30 PMuntil February 20Swan Lake at Pacific Northwest BalletPacific Northwest Ballet dances Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in Kent Stowell's version, a company staple since 1981.Pacific Northwest BalletMcCaw Hall · SeattleESTET pickSaturday, December 5 · 2:00 PMuntil December 24George Balanchine's The NutcrackerThe son of a Georgian composer, who danced The Nutcracker as a child on the stage where it was born, Balanchine went on to make it America's Christmas tradition in New York.Keller AuditoriumESTET pickWednesday, December 23 · 10:30 AMStorybook Nutcracker for the YoungestA short Nutcracker to Tchaikovsky, choreographed by Dominic Walsh: a narrator tells the story, sound and light are softened. Danced by OBT2. World premiere.Keller Auditorium

Where it lives

  • Keller Auditorium2 evenings
  • Newmark Theatre1 evening
  • Lake Oswego High School Auditorium1 evening
  • Oregon Convention Center1 evening
  • McCaw Hall1 evening

Stories

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