“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...
Nell Shipman, Annie Kloppenberg and Caitlin Scholl huddled over their notes in the studio at Portland Ballet. More than two dozen dancers mingled and stretched on the floor. Four musicians waited with ...