Suzanne HaaG 

choreographer, dancer, and instructor based in the Pacific Northwest. 

Background

Originally from Connecticut, Suzanne Haag received her early training at the School of the Hartford Ballet with notable instructors including Alla Osipenko, Franco De Vita, Raymond Lukens, and Kirk Peterson. She received her Bachelor of Science in Arts Administration and Dance at Butler University in Indianapolis before performing professionally with Nevada Ballet Theatre, Ballet Idaho, DROP Dance Collective, and the National Choreographers' Initiative. Suzanne retired after her 15th season with the Eugene Ballet (EB) in Eugene, OR. She had been a featured soloist in many works by EB Artistic Director Toni Pimble and guest choreographers including; Mauricio Wainrot, Jessica Lang, Amy Seiwert, Robbert Battle, Stephanie Martinez, and Septime Webre. Suzanne was named the Resident Choreographer of Eugene Ballet in 2018 and Associate Artistic Director / Resident Choreographer in 2025 following the retirement of Eugene Ballet’s founding Artistic Director, Toni Pimble.

Choreography

Suzanne began creating ballets as a young student and has continued to create throughout her performance career. As an emerging choreographer, her first major commissioned work for the Eugene Ballet Company, Look, premiered in 2016. Since then, Suzanne has created over 15 new works for EB, including collaborations with internationally renowned band Pink Martini, percussionist Pius Cheung, author Gregory Ahlijian, videographer Katherine Frizzell, and 2-time Grammy nominee Tracy Bonham. Her national credits include choreographing work for Dance Lab New York, the National Choreographer’s Initiative (Irvine), Dance in the Parks (Chicago), The University of Utah, University of Oregon, Texas Christian University, UNCSA, and the National Dance Institute (Santa Fe). This fall, she joined the cohort of Positioning Ballet’s Future Leaders and Artistic Directors conference in Amsterdam as one of 35 internationally selected participants.

Haag’s first full-length ballet, Dracula, premiered on November 1, 2025. Her second full-length, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, will premiere in May of 2027. Haag is the most recent recipient of the Eugene Arts and Letters Award from the Arts and Business Alliance of Eugene (ABAE).

#instaballet

In 2013 Suzanne co-founded and became Founding Director of the unique performance group, #instaballet, which utilizes audience participation and creativity to generate new ballets. #instaballet works with a broad range of audiences including students of Bridgeway House, a school for children with autism and other related abilities in Springfield, OR. The mission of #instaballet is to teach the use of creativity to empower the self and build community through the art of dance.

teaching

Suzanne is a sought-after instructor and coach of advanced ballet technique in both Oregon and around the country. She has taught master classes and summer intensives at the Regional School of Ballet (Corvallis, OR), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Lincoln, NE), University of Oregon in (Eugene, OR), Babcock Fine Arts (Wasilla, AK), Olympia Dance Center (Olympia, WA), Columbia Dance (Vancouver, WA), Northern Plains Ballet (Bismarck, ND), Summer Dance Lab (Walla Walla, WA), the Northwest Dance Festival (Eugene, OR), Texas Christian University’s School for Classical and Contemporary Dance (Fort Worth, TX) and the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT). Her approach focuses on efficient movement through proper placement and energy distribution with an emphasis on finding ease of movement for each individual dancer. She regularly teaches company class for Eugene Ballet. Suzanne Haag is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 5 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.