Events

Onstage & Backstage with Ballet Fantastique
Sunday, Sept. 6th, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Sustainable Causeway, located near 8th Avenue and Oak Street

The performance will feature season vignettes from the 2009-2010 season, and a free 20-minute mini-ballet class for youth. Based in Eugene, Ballet Fantastique's season preview will include company dancers joined by youth dancers from The Academy of Ballet Fantastique. 

Families and individuals will be invited to enter a drawing for a free month of ballet lessons. For more information about Ballet Fantastique, please visit http://www.balletfantastique.org.

About Ballet Fantastique Co-directed by mother-daughter team Donna and Hannah Bontrager, the Eugene-based Ballet Fantastique dazzles audiences with vibrant classical purity, and intrigues through innovative collaborations with some of the most renowned artists in the Pacific Northwest, and enchants through delightful re-imaginings of all the ballet favorites.

Called "impressive and spectacular" by The Register-Guard, the critically-lauded dance company performs across Oregon and balances artistry, dynamism, and intimacy to offer performance experiences that truly connect the dancers with audience members.

Ballet Fantastique has been asked to collaborate with and to perform for audiences of the Eugene Symphony (Carnival of the Animals, Silva Concert Hall), the Trio Voronezh (Tchaikovsky to Tango and Danse en Rouge, Soreng Theater), and the Oregon Mozart Players (A Novel Experience, Wildish Theater), and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland (Don Quixote, Ashland OR), and has performed as featured artists at the Umpqua Dance Festival and Ballet in the Park, the University of Oregon Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the international Slavic Festival (Star-Filled Russian Nights, Silva Concert Hall).