Oregon Ballet Theatre has posted its 2008-9 season to its website (thanks to printcess for the heads up!):

http://www.obt.org/season_08-09.htm

Swan Lake

OCTOBER
11 - 18 2008

Christopher Stowell
after Petipa
(Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker"

DECEMBER
12 - 24 2008

George Balanchine
(Tchaikovsky)

Lamberena

FEBRUARY
21 - 28 2009

ASH
Peter Martins
(Michael Torke)

THE RITE OF SPRING
World Premiere
Christopher Stowell
(Igor Stravinsky)

LAMBARENA
Company Premiere
Val Caniparoli
(Johann Sebastian Bach and Traditional African Music)

Left Unsaid

APRIL
17 - 26 2009

THE VERTIGINOUS THRILL OF EXACTITUDE
William Forsythe
(Franz Schubert)

LEFT UNSAID
Company Premiere
Nicolo Fonte
(Johann Sebastian Bach)

TARANTELLA
Company Premiere
George Balanchine
(Louis Moreau Gottschalk)

WORLD PREMIERE
by James Kudelka

Rush and Robbins

JUNE
5 - 7 2009

RUSH
Christopher Wheeldon
(Bohuslav Martinu)

AFTERNOON
OF A FAUN
Jerome Robbins
(Claude Debussy)

THE CAGE
Company Premiere
Jerome Robbins
(Igor Stravinsky)

THE CONCERT
Jerome Robbins
(Frederic Chopin)

Have you noticed that everyone on the west coast is doing Swan Lake next year? Is it something in the stars?

No, it is probably something in the water!!!!

Unlike many places in the country, at least we have lots of water!

Sandy,
Same on my coast as well.

An interesting balance of programs. What do you all think of it?

of the top of my head, the one I'd most like to see is "Rush and Robbins."

What do you all think of the season offerings?

Printscess. Lots of water" isn't true of my end of the East Coast (Florida). Huge Lake Okeechobee, connected with the Everglades, is near a historic low point. My Florida Audobon Field Guide doesn't include any native swans. I have, however, seen a few gliding around in artificial lakes and, in one case, in a hotel lobby.

Rush and Robbins looks good, but I'm going to make a big effort to get to the April rep with the Forsythe (I missed it this year) and the Kudelka premiere. I don't always love his work, but Almost Mozart (for OBT a couple years ago) is wonderful, and perhaps he'll pull something similar off!

Sandik

Perhaps we will meet up in PDX in April. I am making in out to see Swan Lake in October (it's that water thing) I am specifically going out to see Tarantella. I saw the Forstythe piece this past October, I enjoyed but I had never seen anything like Almost Mozart. That piece took my breath away.