Kuu
Sakuragi
Kuu Sakuragi (he/him) is from Bellevue, Washington. He studied on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, where he began as a DanceChance student at the Francia Russell Center. He attended summer courses at Houston Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, San Francisco Ballet, the School of American Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He was a recipient of the Flemming Halby Exchange with the Royal Danish Ballet School. In 2017, Mr. Sakuragi joined Alberta Ballet as an apprentice and was promoted to company dancer in 2018. He joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2020, and was promoted to soloist in 2023.
At Alberta Ballet, Mr. Sakuragi performed leading roles in Christopher Anderson’s Cinderella, Jean Grand-Maître’s Joni Mitchell’s The Fiddle and The Drum, Helen Pickett’s Petal, Edmund Stripe’s The Nutcracker, and Wen Wei Wang’s Futureland.
Featured & Leading Roles
George Balanchine
Allegro Brillante
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Puck)
The Nutcracker
(Soldier Doll, Green Tea Cricket, Candy Cane)
Peter Boal
Giselle
(Peasant Pas)
Alejandro Cerrudo
Little mortal jump
Alexander Ekman
Cacti
Jiří Kylián
Sechs Tänze (Six Dances)
Jessica Lang
Ghost Variations
Edwaard Liang
The Veil Between Worlds
Jean-Christophe Maillot
Roméo et Juliette
(Benvolio)
David Parsons
Caught
Crystal Pite
The Seasons’ Canon
Kent Stowell
Carmina Burana
Swan Lake
(Jester)
Twyla Tharp
Sweet Fields
Waiting at the Station
(Son)
Original Roles
Donald Byrd
Love and Loss
Jessica Lang
Let Me Mingle Tears With Thee
Vincent Michael Lopez
Op. 21
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Khepri
Amanda Morgan
This Space Left Intentionally Blank
Alexei Ratmansky
Wartime Elegy
Dwight Rhoden
Catching Feelings
Kiyon Ross
…throes of increasing wonder
Promotions: Cecilia Iliesiu, Angelica Generosa, & Dylan Wald
PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal Announces Three Promotions during First Look to the Future Gala. Seattle, WA – “It gives me tremendous pleasure to be able to promote three dancers in our company this evening.” As part of the festivities at First Look to the Future, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s first-ever [...]
Q&A with Kuu Sakuragi
Kuu is local to the PNW. He grew up in Bellevue, WA, and started his dance journey on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, through the DanceChance program.