Pacific Northwest Ballet
Pacific Northwest Ballet

2008 Touring

Ballet Across America Festival — June 10–15, 2008

2008 Vail International Dance Festival — July 29–August 1, 2008

Bumbershoot, Seattle's Music & Arts Festival, August 31–September 1, 2008



Ballet Across America Festival
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
June 10–15, 2008


Pacific Northwest Ballet will present three performances of Nacho Duato's Jardi Tancat—1 on June 12 and 2 on June 14—at the Ballet Across America Festival. The Festival brings together nine companies from across the nation for three mixed-repertory programs at the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

See www.kennedy-center.org for Festival details and tickets, which are scheduled to go on sale April 11, 2008.

2008 Vail International Dance Festival
Tuesday, July 29–Thursday, July 31, 2008
Vail Valley, Colorado


Pacific Northwest Ballet will present three programs at the 2008 Vail International Dance Festival:

PNB—Program A
Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 7:30 pm
Gerald R. Ford Amphitheatre
Fancy Free (Leonard Bernstein/Jerome Robbins)
TAKE FIVE … More or Less (Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond/Susan Stroman)
"Rug Dance" from Ordinary Festivals (Italian Folk Music/Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig)
"That's Life" from Nine Sinatra Songs (Frank Sinatra/Twyla Tharp)
Caught (Robert Fripp/David Parsons)

Balanchine Celebration II
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 7:30 pm
Vilar Performing Arts Center
Concerto Barocco (J.S. Bach/George Balanchine)
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (P.I. Tchaikovsky/George Balanchine)
Agon (Igor Stravinsky/George Balanchine)

Up Close—Jerome Robbins: American Genius
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 6:30 pm
Vilar Performing Arts Center
Lecture-Demonstration:
   The Concertexcerpts (Frederic Chopin/Jerome Robbins)
   In the Nightexcerpts (Frederic Chopin/Jerome Robbins)
Fancy Free (Leonard Bernstein/Jerome Robbins)

Tickets:
Tickets are available online at www.vaildance.org or by phone at 888-920-ARTS(2787).

PNB In the News—Articles, reviews & interviews from PNB's tour to the 2007 Vail International Dance Festival.

Program subject to change.

Bumbershoot
Seattle's Music and Arts Festival
August 31–September 1, 2008, Seattle Center


PNB returns to Bumbershoot, Seattle's Music and Arts Festival, after the company's sell-out performances at the event in 2006 & 2007. Again, PNB presents one performance only, on September 1:
Interrupted Pri'si'zh'en
   Music: Kats-Chernin (Zip & Zum) and Fuzzbox String Quartet (Teardrop & Juicebox)
   Choreography: Kiyon Gaines
Lacrymosa
   Music: Clint Mansell ("Together We Will Live Forever")
   Choreography: Jonathan Porretta
Nine Sinatra Songs
   Music: Songs sung by Frank Sinatra
   Choreography: Twyla Tharp

TICKETS: Three-day passes are now available at bumbershoot.org for $80 thru August 16 and $100 thereafter. $35 date-specific tickets will be on sale July 15–August 15 ($40 beginning August 16).

For more information about Bumbershoot, Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, visit www.bumbershoot.org.


More Touring Information to come. Please check back soon.