An actual audience! Performances in front of people! Ballet Fantastique is among the first local art groups to give it a go this weekend when it pirouettes onto the stage at the Hult Center with
Jewels: New Vintage Vignettes from BFAN. Admittedly, because of COVID, there will be only a few people, even though Lane County has been downgraded to “Low Risk” by the state of Oregon. Only 100 people will be allowed in the 2,500-seat Silva Concert Hall for each of the three productions. Still, BFAN will be performing in front of people, and
Jewels seems like a good platform to start. It’s a series of vignettes from past BFAN performances celebrating the company’s 20 years. “I wanted to offer audiences and our artists a way to dip their toes back into the live performance experience,” Donna Bontrager, the show’s choreographer and producer, says.
Eugene Symphony set to release three virtual concerts
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Hult Center making big upgrades
The center is looking to a future after the pandemic.
Posted: Mar 16, 2021 5:06 PM
Posted By: Chelsea Hunt
EUGENE, Ore. – The Hult Center for the Performing Arts has used the time away from events during the pandemic to upgrade their facilities and get some new equipment.
The goal is enhancing the audience experience when live events do come back. And they’re also looking at a future beyond the pandemic for people who won’t be in attendance for live events.
“One of the things we looked into was streaming here of course, that s been something everybody s been working on,” said Jeff Weinkauf, director of theater and facility operations. “But we ve also tried to think about this equipment from the standpoint of how would it be used after the pandemic? We re looking at how do we reach out into our community and provide programming to folks that maybe wouldn t be able to make it in he
Then COVID-19 changed everything.
Now the Eugene Symphony has returned to the Hult Center stage for a virtual performance, using the Hult’s new cameras purchased with state arts funding made available from the CARES Act to record the concert. With the new equipment, the upcoming symphony concert is the first of upcoming streamable performances from the Hult’s two stages.
Hult Center General Manager Theresa Sizemore says at the start of the pandemic the venue used the downtime as an opportunity to make some enhancements to the stage. Because the Hult is owned and operated by the city of Eugene, when it was awarded money from the CARES Act, the money could only be used to buy PPE-related material and to cover business recovery costs, such as cameras to help bring people back to the stage.
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