PNB Blog
American Stories: Craig Big Eagle, IT Manager
My American story begins sometime near the end of the last glacial maximum, around 13,000-16,500 years ago, when my ancestors crossed the Beringian Land Bridge [...]
American Stories: Emma Love Suddarth, Company dancer
Blonde. Blue eyes. Fair skin. It doesn’t take an extensive examination of my family genealogy to guess what might make up my heritage—largely Scandinavian, more [...]
American Stories: Dylan Wald, Company dancer
I remember clicking on what looked to be another ballet video on YouTube. This time though, the women were in black and the men in [...]
American Stories: Gary Tucker, PNB PR Manager
My mom’s paternal grandfather Leopold Koch came over from Czechoslovakia, where his last name was pronounced with a hard O and a guttural ch. But [...]
American Stories: Laura Gilbreath Tisserand & Jerome Tisserand, Company dancers
Jerome: I never excelled in English. But that changed after spending five weeks at the Miami City Ballet summer program. Luckily, ballet is a universal [...]
American Stories: Marjorie Thompson, Assistant Principal, PNB School
My parents were proud to be Young Democrats for Kennedy, but I never took my own patriotism very seriously until I landed at the School [...]
American Stories: Madison Sugg, Company dancer
I stood in my tightest fifth position as the curtain came up. With the lights out in the pit, the orchestra began to play [...]
American Stories: Ryan Schultz, PNB Orchestra
My parents settled in the Central Wisconsin city of Stevens Point, a “college town” with an active and energetic community. I was born and mostly [...]
American Stories: Stephanie Reisfeld, PNB Intern
I think of myself as Californian far more than as American. I realized this identity inclination when I moved to another country a few years [...]