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Leann Underwood: Oregon Ballet Theatre's 16-year-old prodigy heads to New York. Destination: ABT's Studio Company.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-AUG-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Leann Underwood: Oregon Ballet Theatre's 16-year-old prodigy heads to New York. Destination: ABT's Studio Company.(On the Rise)

Article Excerpt
Leann Underwood flashes through Concerto Barocco's second movement, dancing with such lyrical, fine-tuned musicality that Balanchine might have made the role on her this morning, instead of in 1941. If she looks divinely inspired, in a way she is. Deeply religious, Underwood says she "feels we are all on earth with a purpose. Part of my purpose is dancing."

Underwood was a 15-year-old apprentice with Portland's Oregon Ballet Theatre when she danced the Barocco solo in the company's annual school performance last year and a full company member when she performed in the ballet's corps in the fall. Next month she takes her long-limbed, streamlined, perfectly proportioned body...

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