PNB Blog
American Stories: Karel Cruz, An American Ballet Dancer, Husband & Father
Ballet found eight year-old Karel in his native Cuba. His family had recently moved to Pinar del Rio and his aunt, a ballet teacher at [...]
Read Our American Stories
We asked friends to contribute their American stories for you, and you’ll find them all as posts on the PNB Blog {View the American Stories [...]
Q&A: Matthew Renko on NEXT STEP
Matthew Renko. Photo by Linsday Thomas. Matthew Renko is from Tampa, Florida. He studied at Columbia Conservatory of Dance, North Carolina School of the Arts [...]
Lindsay Thomas, Videographer
My mother, Yoko, was born in 1944, in the midst of World War II, in a Japanese relocation camp. Her father, Joe Shiomichi, died at [...]
Laura Tisserand on Twyla Tharp, insecurities, and giving it your all
As dancers, we are drawn to routine and habit. From the pliés and tendus we execute every day in ballet class to the foods we [...]
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 [...]