2024–2025 Performance Season
Discover Ballet Fantastique.
Experience immersive theatrical dance theater, brimming with vibrant characters, great music, and bold personality.
Emmy®-nominated Ballet Fantastique is classic stories, reimagined. The talents of a global ensemble featuring actors, dancers, and acrobats blend with a live musical repertoire spanning from Duke Ellington's Nutcracker, to Mozart, to Queen (yes, that Queen)—and beyond.
It’s ballet like never before—and experiences you can’t find anywhere else.
But don’t wait—BFan sells out.
Secure your tickets now—season tickets on sale now.
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ADDITIONAL SEASON SUPPORT
24–25 Hult Center Shows
FALL
thursday–sunday, October 24-27, 2024
soreng theater, hult center—eugene, or
Murder at the Ballet
live music, custom score: Grammy®-winning Juan Luqui in his first-ever ballet score
OCTOBER: 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!
thanksgiving weekend — Your favorite holiday story!
saturday, November 30 & Sunday, December 1, 2024
silva concert hall, hult center—eugene, or
American Christmas Carol
live music: LIVE JAZZ from Halie Loren
After captivating audiences with their Emmy® nominated 2020 cinematic adaptation, Ballet Fantastique proudly brings its An American Christmas Carol to the Hult’s Silva Concert Hall for the first time, in collaboration with international award-winning jazz vocalist Halie Loren.
thursday–sunday, february 13-16, 2025
soreng theater, hult center — Eugene, or
Pride & Prejudice: A Parisian Jazz Ballet
live music: Gerry Rempel Jazz Syndicate
In this effervescent Valentine’s Day Weekend twist on the beloved classic, Ballet Fantastique brings Austen’s whirlwind of spirited women, determined bachelors, dissembling cads, and society to life—in the smoky back alleys of Montmartre in the jazz age.
MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND
SATURDAY–sunday, May 10-11, 2025
SILVA CONCERT HALL, hult center — eugene, or
Aladdin: The Rock Opera
SET TO the music of queen — played live by neon revival (la)
MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND: All your rule-breaking wishes come true with Aladdin: The Rock Opera—Ballet Fantastique’s magical fantasy rock ballet, set to showstopping original arrangements of Queen.
More season events
silvan ridge winery
saturday, aug. 31, 2024 • doors: 5:30pm • live music: 6pm • ballet: 6:30pm
Ballet in the Vineyard
live music, live performances: CINEMATIC DANCE season opener
Join Ballet Fantastique at beautiful Silvan Ridge Winery for a late summer outdoor concert in wine country, featuring LIVE MUSIC and uplifting, site-specific choreography from the international dancers of Ballet Fantastique! Enjoy globally inspired food from Lily Belle Bistro, sip on delicious wine, and experience one-of-a-kind performance as the sun sets behind the rolling hills.
All proceeds benefit Ballet Fantastique’s arts and education programs!
NEW VIP TICKETS JUST OPENED!
No door sales — tickets sales close day of event at 3pm or when sold out
GALA:
A Night In Hollywood
Ballet Fantastique’s 9th annual Gala — MARCH 1, 2025
EUGENE COUNTRY CLUB
Step into the glitz and glamour of Hollywood's golden era with the stars of BFan—at Ballet Fantastique's 15th Annual Gala, A Night In Hollywood.
Walk the red carpet and be there for BFan’s most important fundraising event of the Cinematic Dance season.
Dress Code: Hollywood glam
Table reservations only — contact ashley [at] balletfantastique.org to reserve yours
OPEN BARRE: OPEN REHEARSAL // art tasting series
24-25 dates coming soon!
Open Barre
CITY CENTER FOR DANCE—eugene, or
The grace of ballet meets the fun of happy hour.
Rehearsal preview of the new art in progress with BFan’s artists, 15-min lecture from BFan Fullbright Specialist in Residence Dr. Barbara Mossberg on the socio-political-cultural context of the story, tasting from a local wine/beer/cider maker (n/a options too)
free for subscribers OR $20 at the door.
Please RSVP to events[at]balletfantastique.org at least 24 hours prior to ensure seating.
LOCAL: EUGENE ART HOUSE MOVIE THEATER
INTERNATIONAL: STREAM ON DEMAND ALL DECEMBER + JANUARY
BALLET FANTASTIQUE’S EMMY®-NOMINATED
American Christmas Carol: A Ballet Movie
If you had one night to learn the lessons of the past, present, and future — would you take it? Ballet Fantastique Choreographer-Producers Donna Marisa and Hannah Bontrager reimagine the classic Christmas Carol story in iconic post-WWII America — set to a swinging 40’s jazz score from international award-winning vocalist Halie Loren. Watch as Scrooge is visited by the “Ghost of Smokey Joe” and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. Let us bring the holiday spirit to you! Filmed at iconic locations across Oregon.
artists of ballet fantastique
All Season
POP-UP PERFORMANCES
Ballet Fantastique + the Academy of Ballet Fantastique perform throughout our city + on tour
Watch for Pop Up Performances at:
Kesey Square
Eugene Sunday Streets
Artistic Encounters
Adventure! Children’s Museum
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Saturday Market
Light Up Downtown
MARKET ALLEY
First Friday Art Walk
National Dance Week events
…and more! Contact info[at]balletfantastique.org to connect about BFan performing for your group or event.