Articles
‘The Little Mermaid’: Bringing the Sea to Stage
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
Preview: Eugene Ballet poised to present 'BOLD: Beyond Our Love of Dance'
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 classic 'Petrushka' ballet re-imagined comes to Eugene
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
Aspirants and educators: Orchestra Next’s decade of dance music
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
‘Synonymous with the holidays:’ Eugene Ballet brings magic to ‘The Nutcracker’
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
Making Space: How Dance Businesses Are Creating Their Own Arts Hubs
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
Eugene Ballet gives a Shakespeare classic a feminist twist
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
Heaven and Earth
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
Eugene Ballet moves Heaven and Earth
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
Celebrating new visionaries of dance
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
Eugene Ballet gives fresh take on holiday 'Nutcracker' at Hult Center
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 Ballet: The Nutcracker
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
Eugene Ballet returns with full production of 'Cinderella' at the Hult Center
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
Back in Character
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
Realizing the Impossible Dream: Eugene’s Midtown Arts Center
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
Mixed-use marvel: Eugene's new Midtown Arts Center a marriage of public arts and private development
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
CAFE 541: Beings of Eugene: Sara Stockwell — professional dancer and foodie
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
Eugene Ballet’s Toni Pimble receives Governor’s Arts Award
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
Realizing the Impossible Dream: Eugene’s Midtown Arts Center
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
Toni Pimble's patterns part of Eugene Ballet's vision
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
Eugene's unique loan program sustains municipal art
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
Path began with love of arts
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
CAFE 541: The pointe of family
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
Suzanne Haag plays with fire
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 Ballet to the Rescue
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
40 years on pointe
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
Eugene Ballet preview: dance of the mountain king
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
“Great Gatsby” at Eugene Ballet Company, April 10, 2016
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
Eugene Ballet takes trip back to extravagant ’20s
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
Bridging town and gown through dance
Bridging town and gown through dance By Gary Ferrington There has often been a social and cultural distance between an institution of higher education and the city that surrounds it. This detachment between town and gown dates back to the European Middle Ages when academic and non-academic worlds often eyed each other with some sense…
A Graceful Transition
A Graceful Transition Where others have stumbled, Eugene Ballet takes a lighter approach to the challenge of succession By Bob Keefer 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 Eugene was full of hope and aspiration. Lifemagazine had…
Love Hurts
Love Hurts EBC and Orchestra Next collaborate on a first-rate Romeo & Juliet By Rachael Carnes 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 Philharmonic in Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. “That’s a duck made of music!” I…
‘Romeo & Juliet’: Eugene Ballet moves to a flaming score
‘Romeo & Juliet’: Eugene Ballet moves to a flaming score By Matthew Denis The Eugene Ballet’s interpretation of “Romeo & Juliet” may not include Shakespeare’s quintessential wordplay, but there are real-life sword fights aplenty. Artistic Director Toni Pimble brought on Master Fencer William Hulings to train dancers in sword work. “They do appear to be…
Magic is in the details for Eugene Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’
Magic is in the details for Eugene Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ The holiday classic runs Friday through Sunday at the Hult Center By Emily Goodykoontz Eugene Ballet has traded in its horse-drawn sleigh for a hot air balloon and pirouetting snowflakes for skating ballerinas in its current iteration of the Christmas classic ballet, “The Nutcracker.” These are…
Stitches in Time
STITCHES IN TIME THE FASHION ARTISTRY OF JONNA HAYDEN By Mikael Krummel | Published December 2018 Jonna Hayden designs and builds costumes—incredible costumes! Her costumes aren’t the ones you might find at Halloween parties or those you might see at special social events. Hayden does have an affinity for science fiction and fantasy fashion, including…
Videos
Swan Lake Rehearsals
We’re working hard to perfect our upcoming production of Swan Lake! Here’s a sneak peek of rehearsals from yesterday, October 7. Learn more: eugeneballet.org/swan-lake/
We Train To Dance
Where is the line drawn between sports and the arts? Between stadiums and performance halls? Between conditioning for a game and practice for a show? And what measures an athlete? Is it strength? Is it precision? Pushing through fatigue, injury, failure… Wherever the line is drawn, we will cross it. #WeTrainToDance Read more on our…
Why Ballet?
Why ballet? We feel that ballet has something for everyone. That it speaks in many languages and tells stories in vibrant color, bright lights, and powerful music. Ballet can simultaneously help us escape and lure us in. Either way, it’s an experience like no other.
Principal Dancer Danielle Tolmie Discusses Dancing the Role of Juliet
Principal Dancer Danielle Tolmie discusses what she’s looking forward to as she rehearses to dance the role of Juliet. Video by Katherine Williams
Dancers of Eugene Ballet: Yamil Maldonado
Check out this short clip of Eugene Ballet Company Dancer Yamil Maldonado and learn more about this talented dancer! Read Yamil’s full bio: https://eugeneballet.org/staff-member… Follow Yamil on Instagram at instagram.com/@yamsdancerman Video by Colton West Photography
Eugene Ballet Turns 40
As we prepare for our 40th Anniversary Season we’re thrilled to give you a glimpse into the many movements that have brought us here. We’re honored to be a part of the communities we perform in and we look forward to continuing our vision to nurture the love of dance.