Toni Pimble is Artistic Director, Resident Choreographer and co-founder of Eugene Ballet Company in Eugene, Oregon. She was born in England and studied at Elmhurst Ballet School.
Ms. Pimble's work has been performed by an abundance of 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, Ballet NY and Kansas City Ballet.
With Ms. Pimble's leadership, Eugene Ballet Company has toured 32 states, and internationally to Taiwan and visited 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.
She has choreographed over 60 works for Eugene Ballet Company. Many of those productions involved 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.
Ms. Pimble's most recent choreography was seen in "Carmina Burana" performed by the Kansas City Ballet.
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Choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett's work spans theatre, dance and movies. She was nominated for two Tony Awards and a Drama Desk for direction and choreography of Broadway’s “Swing!”, and for two American Theatre Wing Star Awards for it’s National Tour. She also choreographed Broadway's “Chess” and “Titanic”.
Her dance works have been commissioned by numerous companies throughout the world, and in the United States by the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Company, and Pacific Northwest Ballet.
In 2008, Taylor-Corbett was the recipient of the Joseph A. Callaway Award for excellence in stage directing and choreography given by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
Broadcasts of her work have been seen on “Live From Lincoln Center", “Live from the San Francisco Opera House” and on UNCTV. Her movies include “Footloose”, “My Blue Heaven”, “Vanilla Sky” and “Bewitched”.
Ms. Taylor-Corbett choreographed "Mercury", the opening piece of "Carmina Burana", recently presented by the Kansas City Ballet.
Photograph copyright 2012 Larry F. Levenson. All rights reserved.
