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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Corps de Ballet
Benjamin Griffiths is from Boise, Idaho, where he received his early training with Lisa Moon. He also studied at the School of American Ballet, where he was a 2001 Mae L. Wien Award recipient. He attended summer courses at Pacific Northwest Ballet School and San Francisco Ballet School. After dancing with Boston Ballet, he joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2005.
Mr. Griffiths has performed leading roles in George Balanchine's Agon, Ballet Imperial, Emeralds, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oberon), and Square Dance; William Forsythe's In the middle, somewhat elevated and One Flat Thing, reproduced; Marco Goecke's solo Mopey; Ronald Hynd's The Sleeping Beauty (Gold and Silver pas de trois, Bluebird pas de deux); Jean-Christophe Maillot's Roméo et Juliette (Benvolio); Mark Morris's Pacific; Brian Reeder's Lost Language of the Flight Attendant; Jerome Robbins' The Concert and Fancy Free; Kent Stowell's Swan Lake (Jester); Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room and Waterbaby Bagatelles; and Christopher Wheeldon's Polyphonia.
He originated leading roles in Paul Gibson's Sense of Doubt, Victor Quijada's Suspension of Disbelief, and Olivier Wevers' Shindig.
He has also been featured in Balanchine's La Sonnambula, Symphony in Three Movements and La Valse, and Kent Stowell's Carmina Burana and Nutcracker.
Mr. Griffiths is a 2003 Princess Grace Award recipient.
Photo: Angela Sterling.
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