Pointe Magazine
October 28, 2024

One of the most challenging, but fascinating, jobs artistic directors undertake is planning their company’s repertoire each year. Programming is a task that requires insight, forethought, and creativity. Here, four artistic directors share how they approach designing a season… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
October 28, 2024

An extraordinary amount of unseen work goes into turning an idea into a dance and bringing it to life on stage… Read More

KEZI
October 24, 2024

The Eugene Ballet is getting ready for opening night of “Mowgli: The Jungle Book Ballet,” an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s renowned story of “The Jungle Book.”… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
October 24, 2024

Eugene Ballet’s Toni Pimble might be the most prolific ballet choreographer Oregon has ever known. In her 46-year tenure in Eugene, she has choreographed more than 60 works and has been instrumental in growing EB from a small ballet school into an internationally respected ballet company… Read More

Oregon Family Magazine
September 30, 2024

At Eugene Ballet, the Artistic staff is always thrilled to see young faces light up during a performance. We believe that theater should be accessible to everyone, especially children. If you’re thinking of bringing your child to a ballet performance, we have some great tips to help you prepare for a fantastic experience… Read More

50 Plus Magazine
September 26, 2024

Once upon a time, a child in England donned ballet shoes, opening the way to the stuff of fairy tales. Years later, that little girl would form a small-town ballet company that would grow to pirouette onto the world stage… Read More

KLCC NPR
September 3, 2024

In September 1982, a performance of the Firebird ballet took place at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene. The dance was only the second act to take the stage at the newly opened theater, and it marked the beginning of a decades-long partnership between the Hult Center and the Eugene Ballet… Read More

Eugene Magazine
Summer 2024

Eugene Ballet’s Toni Pimble retires with a rich architectural and creative legacy… Read More

People Magazine
June 14, 2024

How Tracy Bonham’s Divorce and Breast Cancer Diagnoses Became an ‘Opportunity to Turn Inward’: ‘It’s a Gift’ … Read More

KEZI
May 19, 2024

This weekend’s shows promised stunning choreography, re-imagined costumes and a custom-commissioned score played by a live orchestra… Read More

Eugene Weekly
April 4, 2024

Alt-rock trailblazer and classically trained musician Tracy Bonham’s commercial success first came when she was 27, when the track “Mother Mother” erupted and topped the Modern-Rock Billboard charts in 1996…. Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
February 6, 2024

This weekend two classic works of 20th century American literature come to life in the form of 21st century ballet. Eugene Ballet begins the second half of its 2023-2024 dance season with two dance performances both inspired by masterpieces of American literature… Read More

Eugene Weekly
December 21, 2023

The storyline and characters are well known. There is the “Party Scene,” “The Transformation,” “The Battle Scene” and the “Snow Scene.” And that’s just Act I… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
December 16, 2023

Every year, the holiday classic provides aspiring young dancers from the Willamette Valley to Alaska with their first experience of the world of professional ballet…. Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
October 20, 2023

Eugene Ballet opens its fall season with a revival of artistic director Toni Pimble’s Snow Queen at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, October 27-29. The company premiered the popular ballet adventure… Read More

Third Coast Review
September 27, 2023

The Joffrey Ballet took up residence in Chicago in 1996. After nearly four decades in New York and the death of Robert Joffrey, Gerald Arpino, his partner in life and in dance… Read More

KLCC
August 18, 2023

On this edition of Oregon On The Record, we talked with leaders at some of our most prominent performance organizations, the Eugene Ballet, the Oregon Bach Festival and the Eugene Symphony and hear how they are recovering after enduring the existential crisis of the Pandemic… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
May 16, 2023

The captivating magic of Danish author Hans Christan Anderson’s tale of “The Little Mermaid” is alive and well… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
April 3, 2023

A meandering adventure through an array of moods, music, and scenarios, Eugene Ballet’s upcoming production, “BOLD: Beyond Our Love of Dance,” is a daring exploration of movement styles in dance… Read More

The Register-Guard
February 9, 2023

Dancers with the Eugene Ballet rehearsed Wednesday for their world premiere of Petrushka at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
December 20, 2022

A decade ago, Brian McWhorter’s kids were reaching the age when it was time to introduce them to that essential childhood ritual, The Nutcracker… Read More

The Register-Guard
December 17, 2022

The iconic sounds of Tchaikovsky fill the Hult Center as dancers from Eugene Ballet Co. prepare for another year of mischievous mice and dancing sparkling snowflakes in the company’s production of “The Nutcracker”… Read More

DanceTeacher
December 7, 2022

For many years, Eugene Ballet was nomadic, bouncing between studios and office spaces throughout the small Oregon city and beyond… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
May 9, 2022

Some people find The Taming of the Shrew to be one of Shakespeare’s most compelling comedies. Others find it sexist, or at least offensive in the way it depicts women and how they should behave… Read More

Eugene Weekly
April 14, 2022

It took two years of moving Heaven and Earth through the tangled mess of rescheduling brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, but Eugene Ballet will finally land on stage this weekend with two performances of Heaven and Earth… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
April 11, 2022

Headlining the final performance of Eugene Ballet Company’s 41st season in 2020 was to be the world premiere of Heaven and Earth, an original work choreographed by EBC’s Suzanne Haag, set to a powerful and passionate score for percussion by internationally renowned musician/composer Pius Cheung and performed by OrchestraNext’s percussion ensemble… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
February 8, 2022

A young ballerina, yearning to be a choreographer, has had few female role models to look up to for hope and inspiration… Read More

The Register-Guard
December 17, 2021

The Eugene Ballet company returns to the stage with its seasonal run of “The Nutcracker” at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts… Read More

Eugene Weekly
December 16, 2021

Enraptured ballerinas-to-be, along with their adult handlers, will flock to Silva Concert Hall at the Hult Center starting Dec. 17 for the seven-performance run of Eugene Ballet: The Nutcracker… Read More

The Register-Guard
November 5, 2021

After years of twists and turns — the bad kind — the Eugene Ballet is finally set to debut “Cinderella” this weekend, making a triumphant return of big-production drama, glam and, of course, many spins and pirouettes — the good kind… Read More

Eugene Weekly
November 4, 2021

Mark Tucker lingers in the air for a moment after launching into the first jump in his solo as Prince Charming… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
September 22, 2021

Curious neighbors watched as bulldozers quickly leveled two aging buildings and a paved parking lot following the groundbreaking ceremony on May 10, 2018 for a multi-million dollar, seven story,128,000 square foot mixed use building designed to house Eugene’s Midtown Arts Center and a 40-unit luxury condo complex known as The Midtown… Read More

The Register-Guard
August 9, 2021

The Midtown Arts Center, at 16th Avenue and Pearl Street, is open and functional. The seven-story mixed-use structure, called The Midtown, opened at the beginning of the year… Read More

The Register-Guard
August 28, 2020

Sara Stockwell, 27, was born in “Rochester, Minnesooota! Oh yeah, you betcha,” she said with a smile. Her dance training lead her to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School in Canada and Ellison Ballet in New York City. She moved to Eugene in 2011 to dance with the Eugene Ballet Company… Read More

The Register-Guard
August 3, 2020

Eugene Ballet’s founding artistic director Toni Pimble was among four artists and one organization Gov. Kate Brown announced Friday as winners of the 2020 Governor’s Arts Awards… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
February 3, 2020

The Eugene Ballet Company continues its 41st season on February 8 and 9 with a revival of Alice In Wonderland, last performed in 2010, and the introduction of an exciting new work, The Large Rock and The Little Yew… Read More

The Register-Guard
January 24, 2020

Not only does artistic director Toni Pimble oversee all aspects of the Eugene Ballet, she also puts her own hands to work to assemble performances… Read More

The Register-Guard
November 13, 2019

Thanks to local support, world-class dance will remain healthy and kicking in Eugene. Art Loan, bridge loan financing from the city of Eugene and the Arts and Business Alliance of Eugene, will support two of Eugene Ballet’s 2019-20 season productions… Read More

The Register-Guard
November 15, 2019

From the time Toni Pimble was 8 years old, ballet has been her life. As a child Pimble, now the art director of Eugene Ballet, grew up in Camberley in Surry, England, near London and developed a love of music from her parents, who enjoyed playing classical music… Read More

The Register-Guard
October 24, 2019

Dancing the lead dual role of Odette and Odile in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is one of the most difficult, challenging and coveted roles for a ballerina… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
April 1, 2019

On a recent flight home to Eugene, former Eugene Ballet dancer Suzanne Haag struck up a casual conversation with the man seated next to her… Read More

Eugene Weekly
January 17, 2019

Eugene Ballet Company recently stepped up to rescue a small northern California ballet company’s annual production of The Nutcracker, which was canceled after last year’s lethal Camp Fire…. Read More

The Register-Guard
September 12, 2018

When Choreographer Suzanne Haag brings her rendition of “The Firebird” to Eugene Ballet audiences in April, it won’t be the first time it’s been performed by the ballet… Read More

Oregon ArtsWatch
April 8, 2018

When Eugene Ballet artistic director Toni Pimble decided to stage Peer Gynt, she faced a daunting challenge: transforming poetry into dance… Read More

Eugene Weekly
April 11, 2016

Eugene audiences were treated to two world premieres yesterday, as the Eugene Ballet Company presented Suzanne Haag’s Look and Toni Pimble’s The Great Gatsby... Read More

The Register-Guard
April 7, 2016

It’s a trip back to the extravagant 1920s when the Eugene Ballet Company presents the world premiere of Artistic Director Toni Pimble’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ on Saturday with a second performance on Sunday…. Read More