PNB Blog
Peter Boal on Jewels
With each Pacific Northwest Ballet production, Artistic Director Peter Boal creates a Director’s Notebook. We’re inspired today to bring you his latest editorial for JEWELS, giving [...]
The making of PNB’s new Jewels
George Balanchine's Jewels celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and we're throwing the biggest birthday party possible! All new costumes and sets are coming to [...]
Summer Course, and The Living is Easy
With summer course auditions just around the corner, we asked three students from 2017’s summer course to give advice on how to prepare yourself for [...]
Behind the scenes at PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
On opening night of each repertory production, Artistic Director Peter Boal sends a note to PNB staff with a few bullet points about the show. Secrets [...]
Artistic Director’s Notebook: La Source, Opus 19/The Dreamer, Pictures at an Exhibition
Artistic Director's Notebook: La Source, Opus 19/The Dreamer, Pictures at an Exhibition PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION is a program of three PNB [...]
Opus 19/The Dreamer: A PNB premiere
Jerome Robbins’ Opus 19/The Dreamer follows one main character, “the dreamer,” through a night of sleep. An ethereal romantic interaction crescendos into a fevered dream, [...]
West Side Story Suite Trivia
Warning: Contains spoilers! The story of Romeo and Juliet never gets old. Perhaps that’s why West Side Story, the Broadway musical about star-crossed lovers first [...]
My Story by Erin C
I don’t recall exactly what made me decide to purchase a ticket to one of PNB’s Friday Night Previews but what I do remember is [...]
Finding My People by Marcie Sillman
Photo © Bond Huberman When I moved to Seattle in 1979, I left my close-knit biological family thousands of miles behind in Detroit. That was [...]