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Moscow’s Nutcracker

Local dancers join world-class dancers for the classic wintertime ballet
Elizabeth Warnimont

The Moscow Ballet returns to Bend Sunday as part of the company’s seventh international Dove of Peace Tour, with back-to-back performances of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” at the Tower Theatre. Dance students from Terpsichorean Dance Studio of Bend have been training under the guidance of an instructor from the Moscow Ballet since early September. They’ll play mice, […]

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Part of Our World

“The Little Mermaid” swims to shore
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

Disney is good at a lot of things: fostering childhoods, making billions, building theme parks, handling lawsuits and turning an existing intellectual property into spun gold again and again. Whether they are turning one of their classic films into a new theme park attraction, making direct-to-video sequels to 50-year-old cartoons or molding beloved animated movies […]

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Way Up High

The Wizard of Oz lifts the curtain
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

For many people, L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz is a collection of firsts. Whether it is the first movie they can ever remember seeing, the first time they remember getting scared (damn flying monkeys) or the first time they ever truly felt the wonder and power of a film. For 75 years, […]

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Generations of Joy

Bend’s dance matriarch passes the torch
Avatar photo Erin Rook

When Carolyn Brant moved to Bend in 1974, it was a sleepy town half the size it is today. There was no Arts and Culture Alliance, no Deschutes Brewery, and Mt. Bachelor didn’t even have a summit chairlift. ”You couldn’t find a dance event to go to,” Brandt recalls. “It just didn’t exist.” To that working […]

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