Dance United - A Celebration

A year ago, Oregon Ballet Theatre reached out to the Portland community and asked for support to fill a $750,000 funding shortfall. The response came with a community outpouring at the 2009 Dance United. Dancers from around the world came to celebrate OBT and community members gave generously to support one of Portland's great art institution.



Now a year later, OBT has moved into the black and looks at closing their season ahead. We were very excited to be a part of the celebration. Dance United 2010 brought together dance troops from around the globe and Portland Dance Patrons.

A performance was had in celebration with VIP pre and post parties with the dancers. The result was tremendous. Not only did OBT get to show their appreciation but the community responded by giving again and helping to fill the final gap. OBT celebrated the close of their 2009/2010 season with a bang and is now off to tour internationally in Korea.

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Huge thanks to the team at OBT for making this such a fun event to work on. Congratulations to the volunteers who worked so hard to add all the special touches. VIP guests received deluxe goodie bags with spa treatments from Dragontree Spa, chocolates from Couronne Chocolate, and autographed toe shoes from OBT dancers. Steve Talbot took the lead in a small live auction and beautiful special appeal bringing in the needed support to close the final gap.



Special thanks to New Deal Vodka and Organic National Distillery for special liquor tasting during the pre-reception, to Rex Hill and Widmer for providing the beer at wine for guests and to all of the volunteers that worked hard that night, making it a great event.