Extended interview: OBT dancer Alison Roper
In this wide-ranging interview, veteran dancer Alison Roper discusses her impending retirement from the Oregon Ballet Theater.
She talks openly about the transition from stage to office (she’ll be taking on an administrative and teaching role at OBT) and the awkwardness of now not being able to “punch people in the face” at work, as well as weight and body image issues that haunt those in her profession.
Click below to hear this charming, thoughtful and articulate woman discuss what lies ahead for her –after 18 seasons with OBT– as she prepares to take her final bow on April 26.
