A Legacy in Dance
Meet the Bontragers of Ballet Fantastique
Hannah and Ashley Bontrager were practically born into the arts, dancing before they could walk. “Not a lot of girls get to grow up … Continue reading
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Keeping Score
OrchestraNext’s Brian McWhorter has re-orchestrated Eugene Ballet’s Swan Lake from a mystery recording
When Eugene Ballet performs Swan Lake Nov. 9 and 10, live music will come from OrchestraNext, a student-professional orchestra conducted by Eugene musician Brian McWhorter. … Continue reading
Dance Macabre
Ballet Fantastique dances a horror show in Nevermore
Ballet Fantastique thrills and chills with another world premiere, this time in the spirit of the spooky. Nevermore, which ran at the Hult Center Oct. … Continue reading
Latinx Voices
In its second season of existence, the dance ensemble Company Movimiento has sharpened its focus to take on the broad topics of social justice for … Continue reading
A Pharaoh for All Seasons
Beats Antique trades belly dancers for ballerinas in Ballet Fantastique’s Cleopatra
Cleopatra was immortalized in popular culture long before Elizabeth Taylor sported winged eyeliner and Monica Geller cornrows. Yet I’m willing to bet that not too … Continue reading
A Futuristic Dance With The Past
Eugene Ballet’s Firebird is A haunting blend of Russian folklore
I love life’s little synchronicities, like how a man named Igor created one of the most recognizably creepy compositions in music history. In a dystopian … Continue reading
Split Personality
Eugene Ballet’s new Firebird sets traditional Slavic myth in dark, dystopian future
When Suzanne Haag was asked to choreograph a new production of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird for Eugene Ballet Company this season, she was given … Continue reading
A Graceful Transition
Where others have stumbled, Eugene Ballet takes a lighter approach to the challenge of succession
Four decades ago, Toni Pimble came to Eugene with her then-husband, Riley Grannan, to start a ballet company. It was the 1970s, a time when … Continue reading
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Anatomy in Motion, for a Cause
flex Studio’s dance performance “FLEX*A*TOM*I*CAL” to benefit CSS
Promising to take the audience on “an interactive, physical and metaphysical ride through the human body,” Eugene’s flex Studios will host its sixth-annual benefit dance … Continue reading
Bodies in Motion
Lane Dance blossoms with Collaborations 2019: A Collective Exhibition of Movement
Chronically lagging patrons of the arts might have felt a rush of dread walking into Lane Community College’s performance hall this past weekend, on March … Continue reading
Dancing Far From Home
Ballet Fantastique presents The Odyssey with a beatboxing feminine twist
The Hult Center hosted Eugene’s Ballet Fantastique this past weekend — a warm reprieve from the bitter snowpocalypse that left many of us without hot … Continue reading
Dancing Duet
Eugene Ballet and UO Dance collaborate on Interplay
Interplay, which runs March 8-10 at the Hult Center, features seven new dances choreographed by University of Oregon dance faculty and Eugene Ballet Company artists, … Continue reading
Love Hurts
EBC and Orchestra Next collaborate on a first-rate Romeo & Juliet
As a little kid in the ’70s, I wore a groove in my parent’s vinyl record of Leonard Bernstein conducting and narrating the New York … Continue reading
Star Dancers
New York dance troupe brings Bowie tribute to Eugene
Like a one-man artistic movement, David Bowie’s creativity knew no boundaries. He touched everything from rock and pop music to film and theater. So why … Continue reading