Presenting our world premiere of Murder at the Ballet, the world’s first interactive murder mystery ballet! Set in London, 1888 with international-award-winning film, television, and game composer Juan Luquí in his first-ever ballet score.


Ballet Fantastique invites you to experience the Halloween season like never before with a world premiere performance of groundbreaking, immersive theatrical adventure. Get ready for the world’s first interactive murder mystery ballet!

It’s a dark and stormy night, London, 1888. Amidst the flickering theater footlights, a shocking murder has occurred in the Les Etoiles Ballet Company. Suspicion shifts. A detective rises from the audience. Dark secrets and false leads are everywhere. And you, our captive audience, will shape the story’s end.

Don't miss experiencing the world premiere of BFan’s Murder at the Ballet, with international award-winning film, television, and game composer Juan Luquí in his first-ever ballet score. Be there when BFan innovates a thrilling new sort of penny dreadful—in the era of Jack the Ripper. 

a dark and stormy night in London, where the Les Etoiles ballet company’s newest primadonna has been murdered. Almost any character could have done it: the director whose affair with the ballerina might have been exposed; the jealous and resentful understudy who believes she deserves the main role; the director’s jealous wife...But there’s a twist...the detective in the performance doesn’t even know who’s going to be picked that night.
— Joel Martin, Columbia Basin Herald



Original score

LIVE MUSIC: Grammy®-winning Juan Luqui in his first-ever ballet score


Showtimes — Hult Center

THU. OCT. 24, 2024 — 7:00 pm
FRI. OCT. 25, 2024 — 7:30 pm
SAT. OCT. 26, 2024 — 7:30 pm
SUN. OCT 27, 2024 — 2:30 pm

Suggested Ages: 10+

TICKETS $22-120 ($15-65/EA FOR STUDENTS & YOUTH)
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Theater info

SORENG THEATER, Hult Center, Eugene (OR)


Creative/concept team

Choreographer-Producers
Donna Marisa & Hannah Bontrager

Original Concept, Libretto

Donna Marisa Bontrager, Hannah Bontrager, Gustavo Ramirez with Deborah Speer, Genevieve Speer

original score for ballet fantastique

Juan Luqui

Costume Design & Construction

Donna Marisa Bontrager, Allison Ditson, Chelsea Lovejoy, Primadonna Tutus

Set Design

Debra Peña, Kelle DeForrest, Jeff Faust, Dale Marushy (consultant)


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