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PNB'S 2007–2008 SEASON
LAUGH OUT LOUD!
SPRING DANCE FESTIVAL
April 17–20, 2008
Pacific Northwest Ballet's Laugh Out Loud! Festival—four days of performances, interviews and Q&A discussions—runs from April 17th through April 20th at McCaw Hall. The Festival features comic works by some of the brightest names in dance, including Susan Stroman and Christopher Wheeldon, and a guest artist from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.
PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal has invited Broadway's Susan Stroman and PNB principal dancer Olivier Wevers to create new works for the Company specially for the Festival. Stroman's TAKE FIVE … More or Less is set to the famous jazz scores of Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, and Wevers' Shindig is an episodic romp set to music by a variety of composers from Mozart to Stravinsky to Leroy Anderson.
More Festival dances that are new to Seattle and PNB include Christopher Wheeldon's Variations Sérieuses, a balletic twist on the classic 42nd Street tale; Brian Reeder's Lost Language of the Flight Attendant, set to excerpts from two Mozart piano concertos; and Sara Pearson's and Patrik Widrig's Ordinary Festivals, a work of dance-theater performed to Italian folk music. Trisha Brown's witty Spanish Dance makes a welcome Festival return, along with the One Tiny Dance series of comic works performed on a 4' x 4' stage in the lobby during intermission.
Contributing to the festivities is Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, sending diva ballerina Katarina Bychkova to grace the Festival with her rendition of the ballet classic, The Dying Swan. Finally, PNB's annual Backstage Bash follows the April 19th Best of the Fest performance—a backstage party featuring dancing with the dancers.
| Program A: Thursday, April 17 & Friday, April 18, 7:30 pm • Saturday, April 19, 2:00 pm |
Lost Language of the Flight Attendant 
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Choreography: Brian Reeder
Spanish Dance
Music: "Early Mornin' Rain" sung by Bob Dylan / Choreography: Trisha Brown
TAKE FIVE ... More or Less 
Music: Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond / Choreography: Susan Stroman
Variations Sérieuses
Music: Felix Mendelssohn / Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
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| Best of the Fest: Saturday, April 19, 7:30 pm • Followed by Backstage Bash |
Variations Sérieuses
Music: Felix Mendelssohn / Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
Shindig
Music: Anderson, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Stravinsky Choreography: Olivier Wevers
TAKE FIVE ... More or Less
Music: Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond / Choreography: Susan Stroman
The Dying Swan
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns / Choreography: after Michel Fokine
Ordinary Festivals
Music: Italian Folk Music / Choreography: Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig
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| Program B: Sunday, April 20, 1:00 pm • Sunday, April 20, 7:00 pm |
Shindig
Music: Anderson, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Stravinsky Choreography: Olivier Wevers
Ordinary Festivals
Music: Italian Folk Music / Choreography: Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig
The Dying Swan
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns / Choreography: after Michel Fokine
TAKE FIVE ... More or Less
Music: Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond / Choreography: Susan Stroman
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PNB Premiere • World Premiere
Program subject to change. |
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Spring Dance Festival 2008
Performance Seating & Prices |
SEATING SECTION
See seating chart
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CODE |
PRICE |
Orchestra Front
Gallery Floor |
OF
GF |
$20 |
Orchestra Side
Gallery Lower
First Tier Side
First Tier Side Interior |
OS
GL
FTS
FTSI |
$40 |
Orchestra
First Tier Center
First Tier Preferred
Second Tier Box
Gallery Upper |
O
FTC
FTP
STB
GU |
$60 |
Dress Circle Preferred
Dress Circle
Director's Preferred
Orchestra Preferred
First Tier Box Preferred
First Tier Box |
DCP
DC
DP
OP
FTBP
FTB |
$80 |
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Tickets
Performances have concluded.
Please see our Season Schedule to purchase tickets for other performances.
Special Events & Offers:
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PNB's Third Annual BACKSTAGE BASH
Saturday, April 19, 2008, Post Performance
McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer Street, Seattle
When the curtain falls...the party starts! Join PNB following its Best of the Fest performance from the Laugh Out Loud Spring Dance Festival. Scarf down excellent bites and toast the evening's performance before kickin' it on the dance floor backstage with the PNB Company Dancers. Tickets & More Information
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ONE TINY DANCE
Kreielsheimer Promenade, McCaw Hall
During first intermission of each performance
One Tiny Dance is a selection of works previously created and performed as part of Ten Tiny Dances/Seattle. Each work is created expressly for a 4' x 4' stage and performed in the round in a social setting. Ten Tiny Dances/Seattle is curated and produced by Crispin Spaeth. Ten Tiny Dances was founded by Mike Barber in Portland, OR.
Performers:
PROGRAM A: Left Field Revival (April 17 & 18, evening • April 19, matinee)
PROGRAM B: Stephen Hando & Juliet Waller Pruzan (April 20, matinee and evening)
BEST OF THE FEST: Mike Barber & Jenn Gierada (April 19, evening)
- PRE-PERFORMANCE CHATS
Nesholm Family Lecture Hall, McCaw Hall
Hear from the choreographers before you see the show by attending a pre-performance chat one hour before curtain.
Thursday, April 17, 6:30 pm—Susan Stroman
Friday, April 18, 6:30 pm—Brian Reeder
Saturday, April 19, 1:00 pm—Peter Boal
Saturday, April 19, 6:30 pm—Olivier Wevers
Sunday, April 20, 12:00 pm—Sara Pearson
Sunday, April 20, 6:00 pm—Joshua Grant aka Katarina Bychkova
- POST-PERFORMANCE Q&A
After the show, skip the traffic and enjoy a post-performance Q&A session with Artistic Director Peter Boal and PNB dancers in the Norcliffe Room (south end of First Tier).
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