PERFORMANCE CONCERT CREW

Artistic Director: Donna Marisa Bontrager RIO ORONEZH Executive Director: Hannah Joy Bontrager T V & ALLET ANTASTIQUE Welcome Stage Manager: Amy Bunker B F

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Videography: Ian Coronado Virtuosity • With a Twist Performance Photography: Michael Brinkerhoff, Woden Photography, Tony Lee, Megan Andrews

SPECIAL THANKS

The dancers, for their choreographic contributions • Megan Andrews • Caitriona Bolster/KWAX SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 • 8 PM 91.1 • Michael Brinkerhoff • Amy Bunker • Robin Burke/US Bank SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 • 4 PM Debora Byrd and Larry Adams • Aubrey Cambra • Sharon Clark • Ian Coronado Curves Olga SORENG THEATER • HULT CENTER Grecova/Slavic Home Foundation • Patty Gwartney and George Goldthwaite Bob Keefer/Register Guard • Samantha Ketcherside • Tony Lee • Sara Parker Directed by Donna Bontrager & Hannah Bontrager-Gwartney Jared Mills/Woden Photography • Pacifi c Source Health Plans • Wendy and Averno Rempel • Oak Street Speakeasy • Katy Spaulding • Tripp Summer/KLCC 89.7 Emily Tormey • Susan Turnblom • Ellen Urrutia • Brett Wheeler/Pacifi c Offi ce Automation Made possible as part of Ballet Fantastique’s Arts Together Collaborative, funded in United Way of Lane County •Thea Vandervoort part by a generous grant from Lane Arts Council with support from The City of Eugene Cultural Services Division. PERFORMANCE PROGRAM PERFORMANCE PROGRAM - CONT THE ARTISTS Trio Voronezh Vladimir Volokhin plays the domra, a three-stringed, long-necked mandolin that is a predecessor to the balalaika. Since the sixteenth century it has been I used as a solo instrument in Russia; today, in folk music, it is also played in Act ensembles. Ballet Fantastique Welcome Vladimir has been playing the domra since the age of six. He has performed Suite from Le Corsaire, A. Adam as a soloist in ensembles and with the National Orchestra of Hungary. He is Donna Marisa Bontrager, Artistic Director of Ballet Fantastique Dancers: Adrianna Mirkovitch, Sara Parker, Marina Ross, and Naomi Todd the 1986 Russian National Champion of the “All Russia Domra Competition.” Camille Morgenstern, Tom Newman, Allison Trox, and Regina Urrutia Sergei Teleshev plays the bajan, a chromatic-button accordion with various Trio Voronezh registers, which the musician changes by using the chin. Choreography: Donna Marisa Bontrager Sergei has won many regional prizes in Russia for his talents on the bajan, Concerto in D Minor, A. Vivaldi. J. S. Bach which he has played since he was six. He also has studied the piano. Ballet Fantastique Valerie Petrukhin plays the double-bass balalaika, the three-stringed Trio Voronezh and Ballet Fantastique Russian national instrument with a triangular body made of fi r, known for its Pas de Deux from Raymonda, A. Glazunov resonant sound. Scherzo in B Minor, Opus 20; J.S. Bach Valerie began playing the accordion at age six and the balalaika when he was Dancers: Hannah Bontrager, Alonzo Moore nineteen. He also has studied the piano and trombone. Dancers: Hannah Bontrager and Alonzo Moore Choreography: Original, as performed by the Kirov Ballet Choreography: Hannah Bontrager and Alonzo Moore, with Donna Marisa Bontrager I NTERMISSION - TWENTY MINUTES Ballet Fantastique Trio Voronezh Donna Marisa Bontrager Artistic Director, Repetiteur, Costume Designer Polka from The Bolt ballet, D. Shostakovich Donna Marisa Bontrager has studied the eight levels of the internationally-recognized Russian Kirov training syllabus and performance of classical variations with Bernadine DeMike, Marvin Askew and Karl Singletary. She has also studied extensively with former New Yorker Howard Epstein, previous co-director of the Conservatory of Classical Dance and student of Vaganova Trio Voronezh and Ballet Fantastique expert John Barker. Her performance résumé embraces work with New York companies, including Empire Ballet, Buffalo City II Ballet, Royale Dance Theater, and Festival Choir Ballet. In addition, she was invited to perform in the international Feast of the Trepak, P. I. Tchaikovsky, from The Nutcracker Act Tabernacles in Jerusalem, Israel, and has been invited to join the World Congress on Dance. Dancer: Alonzo Moore She has staged numerous full-length concerts and original ballets for Ballet Fantastique, including Sleeping Beauty, Cakewalk Trio Voronezh Ballet, Danse Renaissance and Mosaico de Danza; and innovative collaborations with musicians and organizations, including Choreography: Alonzo Moore Eugene Symphony, Traduza Dance Company, the Umpqua Dance Festival and the Slavic Festival. Tango Suite: Undertango, Oblivion, and Michelangelo 70; A. Piazzolla Ms. Bontrager’s costume designs have appeared on stages across the Northwest.

Trio Voronezh and Ballet Fantastique Hannah Joy Bontrager Trio Voronezh Executive Director, Dancer Danse Russe, P. I. Tchaikovsky, from Swan Lake Hannah Joy Bontrager-Gwartney has studied the eight levels of the Vaganova Syllabus and Vaganova pedagogy with Donna Mardiandia, A. Zigankov Marisa Bontrager while creating and performing works locally, and instructing classes at Ballet Fantastique for almost ten Dancers: Ashley Bontrager and Alonzo Moore years. In addition to spending two summers at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. under Artistic Director Oleg Choreography: Hannah Bontrager Vinogradov, she was one of fi ve students invited internationally to join renowned Kirov prima ballerina Mme. Alla Sizova’s Trio Voronezh and Ballet Fantastique advanced class. In 2003 she graduated from the Academy of ’s professional division while concurrently training Argentinean Dance, Traditional and performing with the company’s apprentices in productions such as The Nutcracker and Coppelia. Ballet Fantastique Hannah graduated summa cum laude from the Robert D. Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon, where she earned Dancers: Ashley Bontrager, Hannah Bontrager, Julia Hakes concurrent BA’s in Dance and English Literature and a minor in Community Arts. She has also performed as a guest dancer and/ Napolitaine, P. I. Tchaikovsky, from Swan Lake or contributing choreographer with a number of Northwest companies. She is currently a soloist with the Ballet Fantastique Choreography: Donna Marisa and Hannah Bontrager Chamber Performance Ensemble. Choreography: Original, as performed by the Bolshoi Ballet Dancer: Hannah Bontrager Trio Voronezh With: Camille Morgenstern and Regina Urrutia, and Hannah Brandow, Mary Martha Waltz for Nikki, R. Galliano Calhoun, Io Korol, Anna Laptova, Sophie Morgenstern, and Olivia Moss Trio Voronezh and Ballet Fantastique Ballet Fantastique Besame Mucho, C. Vel‡zquez Danse Hongrois, P. I. Tchaikovsky, from Swan Lake Dancers: Hannah Bontrager and Nicole Thieme Choreography: Original, as performed by the Bolshoi Ballet Choreography: The dancers, with Donna Marisa Bontrager Dancers: Nicola Thieme and Alonzo Moore Alonzo Lee Moore IV Ashley Blake Bontrager Nicola Juliet Thieme Julia Ann Hakes Dancer Dancer Dancer Dancer Trio Voronezh Alonzo Lee Moore IV began Ashley Blake Bontrager has Nicola Juliet Thieme began her Julia Ann Hakes has been dancing Trio Voronezh his training in 2002 in Loyola studied classical ballet at Buffalo classical ballet training at the ballet since she was fi ve years Finale from Opale concerto: New York Tango, R. Galliano University’s Ballet Repertory City Ballet, the Conservatory of Conservatory of Classical Dance old. She has been a student at Sabre Dance, A. Khachaturian Program under the direction Classical Dance, Ballet Fantastique, and studied numerous styles at Ballet Fantastique for four years of Laura Zombrano and Gayle and the University of Oregon. Portland’s . and is currently on the sixth level Trio Voronezh and Ballet Fantastique Parmele. He has also danced for Under Ballet Fantastique Artistic She has been coached by Ballet of the Vagonova Syllabus. Julia Trio Voronezh the New Orleans Metropolitan Director Donna Marisa Bontrager, Fantastique’s Donna Marisa is an Oregon native and a South Polka Pizzicato, J. Strauss Opera and New Orleans’ only she has performed roles such as Bontrager and Susan Zadoff at Eugene High School graduate, Finale from Carmen Suite, P.Sarasate Dancers: Ashley Bontrager, Julia Hakes, Alonzo Moore, and Nicola Thieme professional ethnic dance Little Red Riding Hood, Carabosse, the Eugene School of Ballet and and currently a freshman at the ensemble, Komenka. With the Gold Fairy Variation, and has been invited to the Kirov University of Oregon. Julia’s soloist Choreography: Donna Marisa and Hannah Bontrager Komenka, Alonzo performed the Fleur de Farine (Sleeping Academy of Ballet in Washington, roles with Ballet Fantastique Ballet Fantastique across Poland, Bulgaria, and France. Beauty), Chocolat (The Nutcracker), DC. Nicola was invited to join include Goldilocks in Goldilocks After relocating in the Northwest, Odette and the Four Little Swans Santa Barbara’s State Street Ballet and the Three Bears (Julia was also Odalisques from Le Corsaire, A. Adam Trio Voronezh and Ballet Fantastique Alonzo danced in Traduza Dance (Swan Lake), and in numerous as an apprentice, and spent a active in choreographing the work Dancers: Ashley Bontrager, Hannah Bontrager, Julia Hakes Company and Rita Honka Dance contemporary ballet pieces, season performing in a range of for Ballet Fantastique’s Cakewalk Russian Ragtime, A. Zigankov Company. He has also worked many of which she has played an company repertoire. Nicola has Ballet last fall), and the Gold Fairy Choreography: As performed by Theatre with a number of other local active role in choreographing. In performed many roles, including in Sleeping Beauty. Dancers: Hannah Bontrager, Alonzo Moore artist-choreographers. This year addition to her work with Ballet the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Giselle Choreography: The dancers, with Donna Marisa Bontrager Alonzo performed in Oregon Fantastique, Ashley is currently a variation, Beauty Fairy (Sleeping Festival of American Music (OFAM) Journalism-Broadcasting major at Beauty), and Waltz of the Flowers productions of South Pacifi c and the University of Oregon. in Company’s Babes in Arms. Nutcracker. Nicola is also an avid choreographer.