Treasure Valley Journal
7/15/07
A Summer Solstice
Evening
The Eagle Perfomring Arts Center's Dance Intensive
students were joined by guest artsists from New York City Ballet and Oregon
Ballet Theatre. Landing Arts Institute captured the artistic eye with
their display of 2-D and 3-D works and Arts West provided a bit of music to
round out the evening. Oregon Ballet Theatre artists Ronnie Underwood and Kathi Martuza wowed us all! This is a couple of dancers that will knock your socks off, and that, they did, as they opened the show with the White Swan pas de deux from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. This proved to be a spellbinding way to start the evening that left the audience breathless and asking for more. Martuza's fluidity and dramatic sense brought to the stage the true essence of the revered ballerina role, while her partner, Underwood, manipulated her body with effortless tenderness.
Boise Weekly 6/27/07
Wine, Starlight and Tutus Eagle
arts center celebrates summer
On Friday, the Eagle Performing Arts Center is
holding its first-ever Summer Solstice celebration, the likes of which is unique
to the Treasure Valley. The Winery at Eagle Knoll provides the scenic
backdrop for the stage that will host EOAC dance students, as well as some
prominent guest dancers. EOAC is giving solstice swooners the opportunity to see
professional dancers from New York City Ballet and Oregon Ballet Theatre, dancer
under the night sky. Intimidated by tutus: No fear, EOAC ensures you can
expect more than just an evening of pointe shoes and tights. This solstice
event is a celebration of the arts.
Idaho Statesman
11/22/2006
Annual Eagle Performing Arts Center Winter Ball
draws neaerly 350. Brian Lowe came a long way to take his daughter Devin,
9, on a date one recent Friday night. He flew to Boise from San Francisco
on Nov. 17 to attend the Eagle Performing Arts Center's Father-Daughter Winter
Ball with his little girl, a fourth grader at Boise's Riverside Elementary.
"Their first dates should be with their dads," Lowe said. Nearly 350 dads
and their daughters dined and danced the night away at the third annual
ball. Held this year in the ballroom at the Doubletree Hotel Riverside in
Garden City, the $65 per couple event included a buffet dinner, live and silent
auctions, dancing and a neo-classical performance by the center's Perfomring
Ensemble. Oh, and a chocolate foundtin that drew a long line right from
the tart.
Idaho Statesman
11/12/2006
Sarah McDonagh is a 10 year old ballet dancer who
says she's always wanted to play a bug in a ballet - that's "bug", as in the
creepy crawly kind. The Boise fifth-grader's wish will come true soon, as
she is going to be one of the katydids in the Eagle Performing ARts Center's
December production of "Charlotte's Web, the Ballet" at Boise State
University.
The 60 ballet students cast in "Charlotte's Web"
seem to relish playing the barnyard animals and other critters-everything from
spiders, mice, lambs, goslings, and swallows.
Cathy Giese says "Charlotte's Web" will be an
annual winter production for the performing arts center. That way students
can look ahead and aspire to parts they to do the next year.
Idaho Press Tribune 3/7/06
Eagle Performing Ensemble presents an evening of classical and contemporary dance - Then & Now - at Nampa Civic Center. Guest artists include Benjamin Griffiths; courtesy of Pacific Northwest Ballet, along with Cameron Giese and Brian Simcoe, courtesy of Oregon Ballet Theatre. Griffiths will be featured in Marco Goecke's solo "Mopey" a 13 minute "tour de force" set to music by C.P.E. Bach and 1980's rock band The Cramps. Goecke's choreography is highly unconventional and inventive. Peter Boal, artistic director for Pacific Northwest Ballet, says of Goecke's choreographic style: "Marco Goecke's choreography is at once structured and unsettling, edgy and witty, fresh and provocative. He is an innovator from the European avant garde who will no doubt extend the boundaries of PNB's diverse repertory."
Treasure Valley Journal March 2006
This is only the 2nd annual performance for the Eagle Performing Ensemble, (last year's being the children's classic, Charlotte's Web), and we can already see the growth of the group. Not only in numbers, but in quality and style. "Then & Now" showed the true versatility of the young dancers as they moved seamlessly from their long tutus in the technically challenging Gloria to their bare feet and grounded physicality in Arturo Fernandez's Edgar. Eagle is truly fortunate to have a fresh young company like this in their midst. We can only look forward to the future and eagerly await what they will bring to the stage in seasons to come. Iris Emerson
Idaho Statesman 3/9/06
Idaho, recently in the national news for producing snowboarders and high-flying skiers, has been turning out another kind of athlete -professional dancers. And like their Olympic peers, they're talented, competitive and succeeding in the real world from modern dance to classical ballet. Two such dancers will return home this week to perform for the home team when the Eagle Performing Ensemble puts on it spring showcase in the Nampa Civic Center. The show will feature Boise's Benjamin Griffiths, who won a Princess Grace Award two years ago and now dances with Pacific Northwesat Ballet, and Cameron Giese, who is a company member with Oregon Ballet Theatre.
Dana Oland
Boise Weekly 3/9/2005
"At their first-ever performance. Eagle Performing Ensemble presented Charlotte's Web last Friday to a sold-out crowd. "Adorable" perfectly sums up this new children's ballet that was skillfully transformed from E.B. White's novel by choreographer Lisa Moon. The potential of Eagle Performing Ensemble that is mirrored in the accomplishment already achieved by Balance Dance Company, fuels the excitement apparent in Ada County's young dance world. The opportunities generated by both companies are priceless for the talented dancers involved, as they all could continue on into the professional sphere. Keep an eye trained on the Eagle Performing Ensemble. - by Jennifer Parsons
The Wood River Journal Ketchum 3/9/2005
Lisa Moon choreographed the performance for the Eagle Performing Arts Center, which was founded by Jeff and Cathy Giese to train professional dancers.
"It's going to be a phenominal production," said Trina Peters, whose daughter is appearing in the production. "Some of the dancers from Eagle Performing Arts Center came earlier this year and my breath was taken away by how good they are. And the choreography is extremely imaginative and creative." - by Karen Bossick
Idaho Statesman 3/3/2005
"Charlotte's Web" is Alia Kelley's first chance to dance a featured role in a full-length ballet. To become the maternal Charlotte, the homeschooled 15 year-old says she's practicing soft movements and facial expressions. Kelley and her mom moved from Lewiston to Boise so she can train at the Eagle Performing Arts Center. This past weekend, she performed a Moon-choreographed piece in Denver for the semi-finals of the Youth America Grand Prix, a national competition which awards students scholarships to dance schools around the world. "She's tough but she's very encouraging," Kelley says of Moon. "She doesn't just say, I want you to do this and this. She's very good at being a coach and teacher." - by Lisa M. Collard
Treasure Valley Journal 2/5/2005
Something is growing in the old fire station in downtown Eagle and it's the arts! Eagle Performing Arts Center, which teaches dance and drama, opened in June of 2004. The performing arm of the organization is the pre-professional group, Eagle Performing Ensemble, comprised of 20 dancers between the ages of 12 and 18 yrs. Currently, the Ensemble is working with choreographer, Lisa Moon on a production of Charlotte's Web, the ballet. In addition to the Ensemble dancers, 25 local dancers and actors fill out the cast. If you stop by EPAC on a Saturday afternoon, don't expect to find any parking place because the fire station is full of swallows, baby spiders, sheeps and townspeople all preparing for their upcoming performances at Nampa Civic Center, NexStage Theatre in Ketchum, Payette Lakes Middle School in McCall and elementary schools in the Meridian School District." - by Kay Madary.
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