This season we’re featuring a Eugene Ballet dancer every week to help you get to know these talented artists bringing our season’s ballets to life. Got something you’ve always wanted to ask a professional dancer? Email your questions to [email protected],…
This season we’re featuring a Eugene Ballet dancer every week to help you get to know these talented artists bringing our season’s ballets to life. Got something you’ve always wanted to ask a professional dancer? Email your questions to [email protected],…
Eugene Ballet (EB) and the University of Oregon (UO) Department of Dance are proud to announce an exciting collaboration in Spring of 2019—a new performance event bringing dancers and choreographers from each organization to audiences in the intimate…
Academy students and families! You can be in The EUG Parade on Sunday, July 29! Watch your email for details on how to participate in Eugene Ballet’s parade entry, Not Frozen. Costumes will be provided and students will dance alongside…
Eugene Ballet’s production of Peer Gynt is a showcase of artist collaboration: Toni Pimble, Brian McWhorter, Satoko Motouji and Jessey Zepeda have each played an important role in bringing Peer Gynt to fruition. Yet there is still something, someone, missing.…
By: Anna Herring It’s hard to describe what Jessey Zepeda does because he works on so many different things. At one extreme, his job revolves around custom builds of everything from cabinets, to theater sets, to installations for corporate events.…
Eugene Ballet celebrates our 40th anniversary with a fabulous season of dance infused with theater, passion, and joy, including two full length ballets inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. In October we present a very contemporary Hamlet set to the music of…
By: Anna Herring Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt is not your typical theater play. In the book History of Theatre, Peer Gynt’s 40 scenes are described as “moving uninhibitedly in time and space and between conscious and unconscious, blending folkloric fantasy…
By: Anna Herring When the curtain closes on a Eugene Ballet performance, Orchestra NEXT conductor Brian McWhorter doesn’t want you to remember the score. In fact, he would think it a compliment if you were to say “I didn’t realize…
Now in its seventh year, our annual FUN-raising event, Table Dances, sometimes gets a little side eye on first mention. Previous patrons have described it “the best benefit event we’ve ever attended.” Let’s find out what you can expect on…