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Toni Pimble, Eugene Ballet Artistic Director/Resident Choreographer | email

Ms. Pimble, born in England, studied at Elmhurst Ballet School. She co-founded the Eugene Ballet Company in 1978 with Riley Grannan and, to date, has choreographed over 60 works for the Eugene Ballet Company, many of those productions involving collaborations with composers, literary and visual artists and local arts organizations including the Eugene Concert Choir, Eugene Opera, Oregon Bach Festival, Oregon Mozart Players, The Shedd Institute for the Arts and the University of Oregon School of Music.

Under Ms. Pimble's leadership, the Eugene Ballet Company has toured to 32 states and internationally to Taiwan and as part of a United States Information Agency (USIA) Tour visiting India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Syria, Jordan, and Tunisia. Her creative work has brought her a number of awards and fellowships, including two Oregon Arts Commission Artist Fellowship Awards and a National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship Grant.

Ms. Pimble's work has been performed on many ballet companies in the United States including Atlanta Ballet, New York City Ballet, Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Omaha, Washington Ballet, Nevada Dance Theatre, Oregon Ballet Theater, and Ballet NY, among others.


Jennifer Martin, Ballet Mistress | email

Jennifer Martin began working for the Eugene Ballet Company in 1994. She has performed the principal roles in the company’s classical and contemporary repertory. In addition, she has had the honor of staging many of Toni Pimble’s choreographies; most notably, Silk and Steel for Point Park College in Pittsburgh as well as setting several of the Eugene Ballet’s full length classics for Summer Dance Lab at Whitman College. Each summer, Jennifer teaches throughout the northwest for various summer programs including Whitman College, Boise State University, and Northern California Ballet. Her accolades include the Boise Mayor’s award for Excellence in the Arts and the Canadian National Award for the Arts.


Hyuk-Ku Kwon, Ballet Master

Hyuk-Ku studied ballet at Sejong University in Korea. He took a Silver Medal in 1991, and a Gold Medal in 1993 in the Korean Dance Association Competition, and a Gold Medal in the First Kirov-Universal Ballet Competition. He joined Universal Ballet in 1992, was promoted to soloist in 1994 and to principal in 1996 dancing principal roles in Coppelia, La Bayadere, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Giselle and Don Quixote. In 2001, he participated as a guest in the World Stars at Opera International Ballet Gala in Budapest. Hyuk-Ku danced principal roles with Ballet Arizona before joining Eugene Ballet. With the company he has danced Prince Desiré in The Sleeping Beauty, Prince Charming in Cinderella, Oberon in Toni Pimble’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the title role in Bruce Steivel’s Peter Pan and the Golden Slave in Dennis Spaight’s Scheherazade. In EBC's 2008-09 season, Hyuk-Ku was featured as Escamillo and Don José in Toni Pimble’s Carmen, the pas de deux First Meeting, May Dances and the Cavalier in The Nutcracker.

Board of Directors

OFFICERS
President - David Ramos; Vice President - Michael Vergamini; Secretary - Patti Chappel

TRUSTEES
Ann Delaney, Riley Grannan (EBC Managing Director), Cole Inman, Susan Jones
Brooke Newman, Jerril Nilson, Toni Pimble, (EBC Artistic Director), Ken Singer, Hannah Swan

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EBC for 2009/10:
Sleeping Beauty | The Nutcracker | Dark Side of the Moon | American in Paris | Punch and Judy | Swing Kings
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