The Eugene Ballet Company "Swan Lake" Sunday, April 12, 2009 2:00 pm Don Whitney Auditorium Tillamook, Oregon Founded in 1978 by Toni Pimble and Riley Grannan, the EUGENE BALLET COMPANY, has grown from a community-based dance group to become one the West’s busiest and most versatile professional dance companies. The Company has performed in over 100 cities in 32 U.S. states and internationally to Canada, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia and Taiwan.

Over the years, the EBC has grown to become a 21-member fully professional ballet company that performs a wide range of classical and contemporary works with four-production resident seasons at the 2,500-seat Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene at the Morrison Center in Boise Idaho as well as annually touring throughout the region.

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Over the past two decades, the EBC has been continuously recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts with Dance Company Grant awards and, in 1996, was the first Oregon dance company to be a recipient of the Governor’s Arts Award. The Eugene Ballet Company has set a high standard in the performing arts and has gained a loyal following of dance fans everywhere the Company has performed.

Swan Lake

Swan Lake is the pinnacle of classical ballet. Choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov over 100 years ago, the ballet continues to entrance and enrich the lives of ballet fans the world over. This sumptuous production features over one hundred costumes, sets designed by scenic artist, Peter Dean Beck and a full corp de ballet of swans presided over by the evil magician Rothbart. Staged by Louis Godfrey and Denise Shultze, Swan Lake tells the story of a disconsolate prince who happens open a lake filled with creatures, half swan, half woman, caught in Rothbart’s wicked spell. Love conquers all in the end to Tchaikovsky’s romantic and dramatic score. (Children appropriate 10 years and up)

The Eugene Ballet Company's "Swan Lake" take the stage at 2:00 pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 at the Don Whitney Auditorium on the Tillamook High School Campus in Tillamook.

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