Tracy Bonham

SATURDAY

April 6, 2024 | 7:30pm

SUNDAY

April 7, 2024 | 2:00pm

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Two-time GRAMMY® nominee and New York-based musician Tracy Bonham joins Eugene Ballet in song, sound and story. This exciting collaboration with Resident Choreographer Suzanne Haag is a tribute to the soundscapes of Haag’s youth.
The program opens with Gerald Arpino’s Reflections and Toni Pimble’s Slipstream before Tracy rocks the Silva Concert Hall stage.

Curious how a unique collaboration like this comes to life? Learn more in ‘Behind the Barre’, a rock and roll spin on our usual ‘Ballet Insider’. 

Official Set List

The set list ranges from songs from Tracy’s first, groundbreaking album The Burdens of Being Upright and samples from many of her albums since. She is still composing and a few of the selections are treats for the audience as they have not yet been recorded. Tracy is in the process of recording a new album using many of the tracks that we chose for this ballet and will be releasing the first single from this album, Damn The Sky (For Being Too Wide) in March!

1. Give Us Something to Feel
2. Don’t Dick Around with my Heart (NEW release!)
3. Naked
4. Mother Mother
5. Damn The Sky (For Being Too Wide) (NEW release!)
6. Oh McKenzie Silver Water
7. The Indelible Man (NEW release!)
8. Jumping Bean
9. Whether You Fall
10. Second Wind
11. Shine

Listen Ahead Here

An extra special bonus to look forward is that Damn the Sky (For Being Too Wide) is a collaboration with #instaballet (co-founded by Suzanne Haag). The choreography will be created by the audience in attendance at the March 1st First Friday ArtWalk #instaballet workshop. Learn more HERE.

Reflections, set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was performed by Eugene Ballet dancers earlier this season in Chicago, IL at the prestigious Arpino Centennial Celebration. Dancers celebrated the world-famous co-founder and choreographer of The Joffrey Ballet alongside other prominent ballet companies from across the country such as American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, and Ballet West.
Learn More about Reflections Here
Slipstream premiered at the Hult Center in 1999 and is a pure dance piece choreographed to the music of British composer Michael Nyman.
“A slipstream is defined as a region behind a moving object in which a wake of fluid is moving at velocities comparable to that of the moving object, relative to the ambient fluid through which the object is moving. In this instance, dancers follow one another on stage at the beginning of the ballet, following in the first dancers wake. The music has complex rhythms, many based on classical Indian dance, but also movement of great pathos.” -Toni Pimble, Artistic Director

A multi-talented singer, songwriter, violinist, and guitarist, Tracy will play from her broad catalogue of music – alternative rock to jazz and everything in between. Her raw, intimate lyrics paint pictures of her life as an artist and her native Oregonian roots.

A multi-talented singer, songwriter, violinist, and guitarist, Tracy will play from her broad catalogue of music – alternative rock to jazz and everything in between. Her raw, intimate lyrics paint pictures of her life as an artist and her native Oregonian roots.

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