Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Ballet, Dance, Education
Mission: Ballet Fantastique, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, keeps classical ballet vibrantly alive through unique, community-centered, world-class training, educational, and performance experiences for young artists and audiences. As our area’s first non-profit ballet academy and only chamber ballet company, Ballet Fantastique is dedicated to offering scholarships to young artists, training and coaching of the highest artistic caliber to young dancers, performance opportunities to young professionals, and free tickets to young audiences. As an elite ensemble of soloists dedicated to building Eugene’s reputation for world-class performing art, Ballet Fantastique is also uniquely qualified to build performance partnerships with our area’s nationally-renowned musicians.
Target demographics: -Young artists (student and professional dancers ages 4-27) from all sectors of our community, and especially the Northwest-Young audiences, especially low-income children, in the Eugene-Springfield area-New, nontraditional, and existing audiences for dance across the Northwest
Programs: Dance education: 1) continued to teach classes and instruct dancers at the ballet fantastique city center for dance and annex studios in downtown eugene, offering year-round dance classes and workshops for youth aged 4-18, with a separate drop-in community adult ballet education program. Each class is taught by a college-educated dance professional, and limited in size to ensure personal attention and facilitate accelerated learning. 2) brought in thousands of dollars of financial assistance and work study trades for talented young pre-professional ballet students who completed a comprehensive application to demonstrate financial need, talent, and commitment to dance. 3) offered workshops and seminars in dance nutrition, ballet history, contemporary dance and choreography, performance preparation, and more to add depth and enrichment to the student curriculum. 4) expanded enrollment in the academy of ballet fantastique from 73 class registrations and 31 individual pupils to 136 class registrations from 75 different students, more than doubling our academy base.
contemporary ballet performance: 1) created and premiered 3 new original full-length contemporary narrative ballets: cirque de la lune, casanova, and pride and prejudice: a parisian jazz ballet. 2) completed a tour of the company's critically acclaimed original ballet cinderella: a rock opera ballet, with performances in florence on the oregon coast, rural noti, and in downtown portland. 3) engaged in successful cross-disciplinary collaborations with a variety of local and national artists. These collaborations included working with musical groups shelley & cal and the agents of unity for the cinderella tour, betty and the boy, mood area 52 and troupe carnivale for cirque de la lune, and the gerry rempel jazz syndicate for pride and prejudice. The company also worked with numerous photographers, videographers, costume designers, visual artists, actors and dancers, set designers and circus artists in its productions, forging innovative new cross-disciplinary partnerships to build new audience for dance. 4) engaged in a job search for the company's first full time male dancer, attracting numerous domestic and international company's first full time male dancer, attracting numerous domestic and international applications, and hired an award-winning dancer/choreographer from portugal for the start of the current ballet season. 5) grew the audience for company performances, selling out four of six total engagements for the company's original works, while raising both season ticket subscriptions and general ticket revenue over the previous year. 6) received overwhelmingly positive critical reception for all the company's productions, both in patron surveys in numerous media reviews and features across the northwest.
educational outreach: 1) conducted educational outreach work both in schools and in theater through the initiatives experience dance project and passport to dance. 2) completed quarter-length teaching residencies in two lane county schools, offering dance arts instruction and physical education to underserved populations and in rural school districts. 3) arranged an outreach matinee performance of pride and prejudice: a parisian jazz ballet, bringing in over 400 school children from throughout lane county and other areas of oregon to see a full professional ballet production at a highly subsidized rate, with scholarships for students who could not afford the 5 ticket, and subsidized bus transportation for at least one rural participating school. 4) attracted unprecedented attendance at the company's three open barre events, which aimed to help break down barriers to experiencing ballet performances and bring new audiences to ballet. 5) performed original ballet fantastique repertoire free or at low cost at a variety of community events throughout the year. 6) maintained a 100% debt-free budget while continuing to expand outreach and program operations. Grew budget and continued to diversify and grow the ballet fantastique board of directors to strengthen the company's connections with the broader eugene community.
Mission: Ballet Fantastique, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, keeps classical ballet vibrantly alive through unique, community-centered, world-class training, educational, and performance experiences for young artists and audiences. As our area’s first non-profit ballet academy and only chamber ballet company, Ballet Fantastique is dedicated to offering scholarships to young artists, training and coaching of the highest artistic caliber to young dancers, performance opportunities to young professionals, and free tickets to young audiences. As an elite ensemble of soloists dedicated to building Eugene’s reputation for world-class performing art, Ballet Fantastique is also uniquely qualified to build performance partnerships with our area’s nationally-renowned musicians.
Target demographics: -Young artists (student and professional dancers ages 4-27) from all sectors of our community, and especially the Northwest-Young audiences, especially low-income children, in the Eugene-Springfield area-New, nontraditional, and existing audiences for dance across the Northwest
Programs: Dance education: 1) continued to teach classes and instruct dancers at the ballet fantastique city center for dance and annex studios in downtown eugene, offering year-round dance classes and workshops for youth aged 4-18, with a separate drop-in community adult ballet education program. Each class is taught by a college-educated dance professional, and limited in size to ensure personal attention and facilitate accelerated learning. 2) brought in thousands of dollars of financial assistance and work study trades for talented young pre-professional ballet students who completed a comprehensive application to demonstrate financial need, talent, and commitment to dance. 3) offered workshops and seminars in dance nutrition, ballet history, contemporary dance and choreography, performance preparation, and more to add depth and enrichment to the student curriculum. 4) expanded enrollment in the academy of ballet fantastique from 73 class registrations and 31 individual pupils to 136 class registrations from 75 different students, more than doubling our academy base.
contemporary ballet performance: 1) created and premiered 3 new original full-length contemporary narrative ballets: cirque de la lune, casanova, and pride and prejudice: a parisian jazz ballet. 2) completed a tour of the company's critically acclaimed original ballet cinderella: a rock opera ballet, with performances in florence on the oregon coast, rural noti, and in downtown portland. 3) engaged in successful cross-disciplinary collaborations with a variety of local and national artists. These collaborations included working with musical groups shelley & cal and the agents of unity for the cinderella tour, betty and the boy, mood area 52 and troupe carnivale for cirque de la lune, and the gerry rempel jazz syndicate for pride and prejudice. The company also worked with numerous photographers, videographers, costume designers, visual artists, actors and dancers, set designers and circus artists in its productions, forging innovative new cross-disciplinary partnerships to build new audience for dance. 4) engaged in a job search for the company's first full time male dancer, attracting numerous domestic and international company's first full time male dancer, attracting numerous domestic and international applications, and hired an award-winning dancer/choreographer from portugal for the start of the current ballet season. 5) grew the audience for company performances, selling out four of six total engagements for the company's original works, while raising both season ticket subscriptions and general ticket revenue over the previous year. 6) received overwhelmingly positive critical reception for all the company's productions, both in patron surveys in numerous media reviews and features across the northwest.
educational outreach: 1) conducted educational outreach work both in schools and in theater through the initiatives experience dance project and passport to dance. 2) completed quarter-length teaching residencies in two lane county schools, offering dance arts instruction and physical education to underserved populations and in rural school districts. 3) arranged an outreach matinee performance of pride and prejudice: a parisian jazz ballet, bringing in over 400 school children from throughout lane county and other areas of oregon to see a full professional ballet production at a highly subsidized rate, with scholarships for students who could not afford the 5 ticket, and subsidized bus transportation for at least one rural participating school. 4) attracted unprecedented attendance at the company's three open barre events, which aimed to help break down barriers to experiencing ballet performances and bring new audiences to ballet. 5) performed original ballet fantastique repertoire free or at low cost at a variety of community events throughout the year. 6) maintained a 100% debt-free budget while continuing to expand outreach and program operations. Grew budget and continued to diversify and grow the ballet fantastique board of directors to strengthen the company's connections with the broader eugene community.
60 E. 10th Ave., Eugene, OR 97401
541-342-4611
Arts & Culture
Eugene
