Oregon Ballet Theatre Damara Bennett, a former dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and founder of the City Ballet School in San Francisco. It is now directed by Anthony Jones, a former dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet. Oregon Ballet Theatre Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT) is a ballet company in Portland, Oregon, United States. The company performs an annual five-program season at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts and conducts regional and national tours. It was featured in the October/November 2007 issue of "Pointe" magazine, with principal dancer Kathi Martuza on the cover. The company is the result of the 1989 merger of
Ballet San Jose Ballet San Jose Ballet San Jose was a ballet company based in San Jose, California, US, operating from 1985 to 2016. The company was founded in 1985 as the "San Jose Cleveland Ballet," a co-venture with the ten-year-old Cleveland Ballet which offered to the dancers added performing exposure, and each city a ballet company for a moderate, shared investment. In 2000, the Cleveland Ballet ceased operations, and over half the dancers, the headquarters, and artistic director/choreographer Dennis Nahat moved to San Jose to continue operations there. The company was originally known as Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley, but in July