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Eugene Ballet:
Climbing up the
stairway to success
Pimble & Grannan:
David Lortng
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1 Cinderella
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developed into a professional-caliber
dance company, more than ready for the
challenges and competition that will
come with the completion of the Eugene
Performing Arts Center
When the center is finished, Grannan
says, traveling dance companies will
begin stopping in Eugene The company
sees this as stiff competition, yet as a real
inspiration to provide the finest qualitv
ballet
One of the most important steps in the
company's development will be seen in
Cinderella , for the company will be
accompanied by the Eugene Symphony
Orchestra This comes at a time when
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most ballet companies have been forced
to rely on taped music for their produc
tions, and so the collaboration of the two
groups should prove to be a real treat.
Cinderella" sold out last year, and
can be expected to do the same this year
Both single and season tickets for the
Eugene Ballet are available at the
Ballet s box office at 1231 Olive St. Sin
gle tickets are $9, $7 25 and $4 50 for the
8 p m Saturday performances, and $8,
$6 75 and $4 for the 2 p m matinee on
Sunday Student and senior citizen dis
counts are available For more informa
tion and reservations, call the box office
at 485-3985
Christine Dyer
Creative core of Eugene Ballet Company
Tom Pimble
Grannan are
celebrities
Eugene finally
and Riley
becoming
around
"People see Toni shopping and
stop and say. Hey I saw you
dance last night and I just wanted
to say how much I enjoyed it.' "
says Riley Grannan "It's great it
should be that way We re part of
the community and it s good that
people can look at us and say
Hey, you feel the cantaloupes
just like me'
Pimble and Grannan have been
the artistic directors of the
Eugene Ballet Company for three
years since they founded the
troupe in 1978 During that time
the couple has spent countless
hours in their studio at the
Eugene School of Ballet dancing
teaching planning brainstorm
ing. choreographing rehearsing
and doing a hundred other things
necessary to bring quality ballet
to the stages of Eugene
Although their dedication to
ballet has taken much of their
time Pimble and Grannan are still
real people 'We re not com
pletely addicted.' says Grannan
"There are dancers who get real
technical and just think of life in
terms of how well a leg stretches
and that sort of thing "
If you re going to create you
must have outside influences If
you don't adds Pimble with her
distinctive British twang, "it s a
bit like interbreeding isn't it?'' To
avoid this problem they listen to
music read go to movies go bike
riding or go to exhibitions by
other artists
Dancing has filled most of their
lives however Tom started at the
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age of eight in England, where
she was born My mother
thought I should study piano like
my brother I spent more time
dancing around the room than
doing my scales One time my
mom came in while I was doing a
handstand against the door I
guess she thought there should
have been more noise or
something Anyway, she asked if I
wouldn't rather take dance les
sons than do piano arid I said yes
I haven't looked back since "
'We're trying to make
dance more human.'
Riley Grannan a native of
Junction City took up ballet at
the age of 18 also because he
couldn't stay still "I'm a relatively
nervous person I've got a lot
of nervous energy I don t write
good poetry, and I don t play a
musical instrument I decided
that dancing was the best way I
could express myself, so I got into
a dance class
Grannan eventually auditioned
!or some dance troupes in Eu
ope. and landed in the same
company as Pimble in Kiel West
3ermany I even remember
when he auditioned," says Pim
ale He was the one with pea
jreen tights and red hair ”
After performing together and
ipart for a while, they decided
that they preferred being
together, and were married in
England They then came to
Eugene, took over Riley's
teacher's dance studio, and
founded the Eugene Ballet
Company
Although a traditional stereo
type says that dancers can't have
both marriage and the ballet
Pimble and Grannan have found
that the two are. in tact compat
ible That s why we married
each other says Grannan If
you're serious about it you have
to put up with a lot of strange
hours It would be a real strain on
us if we tried to retain a modicum
of normalcy in our hours, but
because we re both so involved in
it it's not so bad
Their work has paid off and
now the Eugene Ballet is one of
the most respected ballet
companies on the West Coast
Tor their first year of selling sea
son tickets they ve done incredi
bly well, having sold more than
700 season tickets We take
pride in our community, says
Grannan "These are our people
They have a right to expect good
Quality theatre It's like a candy
bar It can be in a great wrapper,
but if it tastes terrible you're never
going to buy it again Our philos
ophy here is to give the
audience a performance that will
bring them back again We re
trying to make dance more
human ''
by matt meyer
Christine Dyer:
Cinderella wants
to settle down
hristine Dyer of the Oregon Festival
Ballet will star as Cinderella when
the Eugene Ballet Company brings
X-/ the tarry tale to life this weekend
Miss Dyer is no stranger to Eugene
audiences however, having performed in
the company's production of Pinocchio'
last year
Originally from Spokane, Wash , Chris
tine s interest in the ballet was sparked by
her sister Pam "She asked for dance les
sons and I didn't want to be left out " said
Christine with a smile Pam left Washington
at the age of ten for the Royal Ballet School
in England while Christine studied n
Spokane with Tessa Williams of the Royal
Academy The two sisters were reunited
when they joined each other at the San
Diego Ballet and moved on. together, to the
Royal Ballet Folk of Moscow now known as
the American Festival Ballet
Yet somehow dancing together wasn't
satisfying enough for them We used to
dream about the company we'd like to have
The kind of dancing that we wanted to do
would be much more spiritually based than
what we were doing at the time We both
have very strong Christian beliefs, so we
wanted to do some works that grasped that
kind of spirit in our dance that kind of
communication with the audience That's
what a performer does "
'We choreographed a dance entitled Le
Sonnet' and performed it together at the
Opera House back home in Spokane That
is the most enjoyable performance I’ve ever
experienced Something happened on
stage. We were both dancing together with
the music and all of those ingredients came
together It was like something was born on
stage"
Unfortunately, Pam Dyer injured her knee
last year and can no longer dance It is sad
to me that my sister can no longer dance/'
reflects Christine "That partnership meant
a lot to me. ”
When Christine isn't dancing, she's
taking classes at the University or waiting
fables at a local restaurant "People are not
compensated for their work The work they
do re hard and strenuous *
7 wish I could stay but
you’ve got to live. You’ve
got to pay the rent.'
Today the standards are very high To be
good you have to dance for hours and
hours each day There s just no way that
you can do that and try to wait tables You
j exhaust yourself and then eventually injure
I yourself, which is what I've done, and then
; you re out tor tour months There are many
: dancers in this country that have to have
other jobs'
Yet still they dance Christine sees
dancers and painters as being some of the
only idealists left in the world "They have
an intense desire to do something." she
says “If there was money there would be no
limitations Their energy and devotion is
endless "
It is this energy and devotion that keeps
Christine on the road, going from town to
town and production to production "It s
difficult to have this lifestyle, although I j
enjoy traveling In the past five years I’ve]
had 20 residences, and I know many peo-J
pie, but I don't have any close friends I also
find myself at me point where I want to put
myself somewhere and dig in a little bit. f
want a place that l can call my own home;
where I can unpack my bags and grow some
plants, and develop some relationships with
the people I work with. Really work with
them, not just breeze in. learn a dance,
dance it, and then leave. You come across
people that you really want to work with but
you can t I can't afford to stay on the West
Coast because they can’t afford to pay me
enough to live on I do love it here, and I
wish I could stay, but you've got to live
You've got to pay the rent.”
And so, when the cast of ‘‘Cinderella’'
has taken its last curtain call and the lights
all go back up. Christine will start packing
her bags and getting ready to move on to
j her next production — somewhere further
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