Artistic Director Donna Marisa Bontrager has studied the eight levels of the internationally-recognized Russian Kirov training syllabus and performance of classical variations with Bernadine DeMike (Royale Dance Theatre New York) and Marvin Askew and Karl Singletary (Buffalo City Ballet). She has also studied extensively with former New Yorker Howard Epstein, previous co-director of the Conservatory of Classical Dance and student of Vaganova expert John Barker. Donna-Marisa's performance résumé embraces work with New York companies, including Empire Ballet, Buffalo City Ballet, Royale Dance Theater, and Festival Choir Ballet. In addition, she was one of ten dancers invited to perform as part of the international Feast of the Tabernacles in Jerusalem , Israel , and has been invited to join the World Congress on Dance. She has staged numerous full-length concerts and original ballets for Ballet Fantastique, including Sleeping Beauty and Cakewalk Ballet ; several Hult Center productions, including Danse Renaissance and Mosaico de Danza ; and innovative collaborations with musicians and organizations, including Eugene Symphony, Traduza Dance Company, the Slavic Festival, and most recently, the Trio Voronezh.

Executive Director Hannah Joy Bontrager has studied the eight levels of the Vaganova Syllabus and Vaganova pedagogy with Donna Marisa Bontrager (Ballet Fantastique) while creating and performing works locally, and instructing classes at Ballet Fantastique for almost ten years. In addition to spending two summers at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. under Artistic Director Oleg Vinogradov (also Artistic Director of the Kirov Ballet in Russia), she was one of five students invited internationally to join renowned Kirov prima ballerina Mme. Alla Sizova's advanced class. Hannah graduated in 2003 from the Academy of Colorado Ballet's professional division under St. Petersburg Vaganova Academy graduate Inessa Pakri-Plekhanova, while concurrently training and performing with the company's apprentices. In Fall 2006 she was invited by internationally-recognized master teacher Oleg Briansky to join the summer staff of his New York summer intensive program as a teacher and student mentor. Hannah graduated summa cum laude and phi beta kappa from the Robert D. Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon, where, as a full scholarship student, she earned concurrent degrees in Dance and English Literature and a minor in Community Arts through the graduate Arts Administration program.  Her honors thesis, Moving Education: Building an Integrated In-School Dance Curriculum for Elementary School Classrooms, explores the challenges and opportunities of dance education under the No Child Left Behind Act, and is on the forefront in the national dialogue on integrated arts education and research.  Hannah has performed as a guest dancer and/or contributing choreographer with a number of companies, including: Co-Art Dance Company, Traduza Dance Company, Rose Children's Theater, and the Staton Foundation. She is also a soloist with the Ballet Fantastique Chamber Performance Ensemble.