WE APPLAUD OUR SEASON OUTREACH SPONSORS: With support from SHO (SUPPORT HULT OPERATIONS) and OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, Ballet Fantastique’s arts outreach programs reach across barriers in access to serve local students from local Title I and rural schools. This support truly makes a difference in the lives of young people in our community.
Outreach experiences
Please see our outreach calendar below — choose your experience and request your tickets with the Sign Up Form. Your tickets request will be confirmed. Please allow up to one week of response time! Final deadline to request tickets is usually at least two weeks prior to any performance.
Most outreach experiences include a study guide that aligns with OR State Standards for Dance and the English Language Arts and Social Studies Common Core State Standards, as well as other downloadable enhancement materials for teachers to prepare their students for the show.
Optional Live Q&A with some of the featured artists from the show during school hours may be available: contact community [at] balletfantastique.org to inquire.
NOW ENROLLING
Aladdin Field Trip Experience
at the Hult Center!
Friday, May 9, 2025, at 10 am
Grade Level Rubrics, Prompts, & Sentence Frames are available
This field trip covers Oregon State Standards
Your school is invited to experience the magic of Aladdin: A Rock Opera Ballet with the international dancers of Ballet Fantastique and LIVE MUSIC from Neon Revival (LA) at the Hult Center's Silva Concert Hall on May 9, 2025 at 10AM.
Experience the full performance with live music, including optional Q&A with the dancers/musicians following the performance (Act 1 = 35 minutes; Intermission = 15 minutes; Act 2 = 35 minutes; total time 85 minutes) as well as the opportunity to participate in our writing contest for the chance to win a month of FREE ballet classes for the winning students at each grade level band!
WHO
All ages are invited, and any grade K-12 is welcome!
NUMBER ATTENDING
Send a specific class, a grade level, multiple grade levels, or the whole building!
Input how many seats you need below, and please make sure to include an estimated number of chaperones as well!
COST
All students and chaperones are $10 per person, with scholarships available for students in need.
AVAILABILITY
Field trip seats are first come, first serve. Fill out this form as soon as you can before this incredible opportunity sells out!
Questions? Please email Rebeca: community [at] balletfantastique.org
FIELD TRIP DEADLINES:
COMPLETE OUTREACH RSVP FORM BY MAY 2, 2025
FUNDS MUST BE SENT BY APRIL 25, 2025
WRITING COMPETITION SUBMISSIONS MUST BE SENT IN VIA EMAIL
TO COMMUNITY[at]BALLETFANTASTIQUE.ORG BY JUNE 6, 2025
*REGISTRATION FORM WILL CLOSE WHEN WE RUN OUT OF SEATS*
Girl Scout Program
make memories at the ballet
Exclusive package only for scouts, come and learn how a ballet is put together and earn your fun at the ballet badge
Tickets to the performance at a group discount
Complimentary backstage tour during intermission
Lobby photos with the characters in costume
Special Q&A with the artists after the show at the front of the theater
Earn your Fun at the Ballet Badge
Girl Scouts fun at the ballet shows 2025
aladdin: the rock opera, may 10-11, 2025
Sleepy hollow, October 2025
Christmas in toyland, November 2025
About our outreach programs
in-theater outreach performance series: Passport to Dance
“Everything was so beautiful, from the dancing to the music. I just wanted to let you know how much we appreciated the opportunity to see live theatre and how amazing the show truly was for us.”
“I loved reading the novels that inspired the performances. It made it a wonderful tie-in into units I could create, and opened up great discussions about how producers and creators make live action performances and films from books.”
Dance is for everyone. Ballet Fantastique builds diverse new generations of audiences through engaging, cross-disciplinary live dance theater outreach performances. Outreach concerts are held throughout BFan’s Hult Center for the Performing Arts season. Priority access for Rural + Title I schools // Ticket scholarships are available. Pre-performance Education Guides support classroom learning. Post-performance artist Q&As connect kids and artists.
EXPERIENCE DANCE! Project
“Community support from BFan is critically important to Jasper Mountain/SAFE Center’s mission of healing children with trauma in two ways. First, our children often have limited experience with the arts and this exposes them to it, possibly for the only time in their young lives. Second, the opportunity to practice the skills they’ve learned during intensive residential and academic treatment is key to their success when they return to the community. Without BFan’s support for us, we could not do our job as well as we do.”
Ballet Fantastique's EXPERIENCE DANCE! Project is engaging in-school dance experience. Professional BFan dancer-educators work with teachers on integrated arts programming, integrating learning in dance learning with a particular curricular goal (past units have included birds, math, oceans, and insects). Typical program participants are K-5 classrooms and after-school programs; age range and content is also adaptable for older students.
Scholarships & Professional Dancer Development Program
Need-blind admissions policy to train the next generation of bold professional ballet dancers. Scholarship students "pay it forward," participating in outreach and as teaching assistants for younger students. New Arts Access & Equity Scholarship.
community events
Ballet Fantastique tours across our NW home and beyond. Free preview events throughout the season in our downtown Eugene City Center for Dance + other community venues break down the rehearsal and production process and introduce BFan’s accessible programming to diverse new audiences. See events page for the latest experiences.
Internships
Ballet Fantastique tailors internships toward undergraduate and graduate students' professional learning goals in arts management, marketing, and public relations. Internships are centered on practical opportunities for participants to experiment with ideas while building ownership-level experiences for future arts careers. BFan intern alumni now work with corporations, arts orgs, startups, and nonprofits worldwide.
High school + up: Backstage/arts production/tech internships and volunteer opportunities