Jewels: New Vintage Vignettes from BFAN
An actual audience! Performances in front of people! Ballet Fantastique is among the first local art groups to give it a go this weekend when … Continue reading
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Ballet On The Green — Preview Night
They will have to avoid the rough, the sand traps and water hazards, but if the dancers of Ballet Fantastique stay on the green, they … Continue reading
A Steampunk Shrew
Eugene artist Joseph Mross designs the look for a Eugene Ballet production next year of Taming of the Shrew
Leave it to Eugene Ballet to pull off a steampunk adaptation of Shakespeare’s most controversial play, Taming of the Shrew. That’s right, you read that … Continue reading
Ballet Fantastique’s Alice in Wonderland Watch Party
It starts with the troubling and recurring dream as well as the mourning of the loss of her father. She attends a stifling high-society garden … Continue reading
Celtic Nintendo Ballet
Dragon and the Night Queen takes flight despite injuries
Ballet Fantastique danced with multi-mythological ambitions on wounded wings in Dragon and the Night Queen, an original ballet that pairs nicely with a Guinness. With … Continue reading
Poised for Wonder
Eugene Ballet offers both a classic and a brand-new work
Eugene Ballet is putting on a whimsical double feature Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 8 and 9, with its oft-performed Alice in Wonderland and an all-new … Continue reading
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
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