Dragon & the Night Queen // photo: stephanie urso + bob williams

PRESENTING SPONSOR:

 

Dr. Eliot Grasso is an award-winning, internationally recognized performer and recording artist. Grasso has performed extensively at venues including Constitution Hall, the Library of Congress, the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, National Geographic, and the Kennedy Center. He has collaborated with actor Russell Crowe, Grammy-winning conductor David Sabee, and Garrison Keillor. Contemporaries claim that Grasso’s “intuitive sense of melodic and technical variation make him one of the most creative and dynamic musicians in the contemporary world of Irish traditional music,” and call him “one of the finest uilleann pipers in the history of Irish music in America.”

Ballet Fantastique Resident Composer, guitarist, educator and music director Gerry Rempel has composed for and directed music ensembles for many Ballet Fantastique original productions, including Dragon and the Night Queen, The Book of Esther, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Pride and Prejudice: A Parisian Jazz Ballet, and String Theory.  He is a busy session recording artist and performs throughout the Northwest with numerous jazz fusion, blues, rock, soul/funk and fusion collectives, including Gerry Rempel Jazz Syndicate.

Ballet Fantastique's all-original full-length ballet

“a bold, defiant new telling of ancient Irish and Celtic legends—a vivid exploration of new borders, filled with elemental powers and riotous spirit.”
— Siuslaw News

Dragon & the Night Queen

EUGENE, OR: HULT CENTER
One Eugene Center, Eugene OR 97401
Hult Center Box Office: 541-682-5000

LIVE MUSIC: Gerry Rempel Ensemble
+ award-winning guest Eliot Grasso (uilleann pipes) fuse new music, Celtic rock, and ancient Irish traditional.

Performance Dates/Times:
Friday, Mar. 6 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, Mar. 7 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, Mar. 8 at 2:30 pm

All-Original Choreography: Donna + Hannah Bontrager, choreographer-producers
Music Directors: Gerry Rempel + John Polese

Fierce movement. Riotous live music. Dragons, goddesses, treasure.

Ancient Ireland is a mesmerizing world driven by elemental powers and dragons, gatekeepers to other worlds and guardians of the treasures of the universe. Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle to battle Stoorwyrm begins.

LIVE BROADCAST: This concert will be live broadcast to international audiences (Sunday, Mar. 8 @ 2:30 pm PST)—see link below.

LIVE CELTIC MUSIC:

  • Gerry Rempel (Music Director, electric/acoustic guitars, bouzouki)

  • John Polese (Music Director, keyboards, accordion, recorder)

  • Eliot Grasso (uilleann pipes, flute, whistle, fiddle)

  • Oscar Watson (acoustic/electric percussion)

  • Rick Carter (acoustic/electric bass)

  • Cindy Kenny and Emma Rose Lynn (vocalists)