Meet the NEXT STEP Artist: Malena Ani

Malena Ani is from Los Angeles California. She studied with Olga Tozyiakova, Natalia Sinitsyna, and Zippora Karz, and at Pacific Northwest Ballet School. She attended summer courses at the Chautauqua Institution, […]

Meet the NEXT STEP Artist: Malena Ani

Malena Ani is from Los Angeles California. She studied with Olga Tozyiakova, Natalia Sinitsyna, and Zippora Karz, and at Pacific Northwest Ballet School. She attended summer courses at the Chautauqua Institution, […]

Maris Antolin2023-09-21T15:56:53-07:00May 16th, 2022|Categories: Choreographers, Dancers, Next Step Choreographers|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Malena Ani, Next Step 2022, Proust Questionnaire|Comments Off

PNB Soloist Joshua Grant Announces Retirement at End of 2021-22 Season

SEATTLE, WA — Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist Joshua Grant has announced that after a 21-year dancing career, the majority spent at PNB, he has decided to retire at the end of the 2021-2022 season. Joshua attended Pacific Northwest Ballet School, joined PNB as an apprentice in 2001, and was promoted to corps de […]

Maris Antolin2022-05-03T11:00:00-07:00May 3rd, 2022|Categories: Dancer Announcements, Dancers, Life at PNB|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Joshua Grant, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, National Ballet of Canada, Retirement Announcement, Season Encore|Comments Off

Q&A with Louise Nadeau

Louise Nadeau is from Long Island, New York. She trained at the Alexandra School of Ballet in St. Louis and the School of American Ballet. Ms. Nadeau danced with Basel Ballet and Kansas City Ballet before joining Pacific Northwest Ballet as a Soloist in 1990. She was promoted to Principal in 1992 and retired […]

Maris Antolin2022-04-12T09:00:00-07:00April 12th, 2022|Categories: PNB School, Q&A with Dancers, Choreographers & Staff|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Louise Nadeau, PNB School Spotlight, Swan Lake|Comments Off

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Swan Lake

Swan Lake defines a classical ballet company. It offers the epitome of cohesion for a corps de ballet, the apex of artistry for principal dancers, a challenge and a triumph for an orchestra, and an opportunity to lay claim to greatness. It certainly helped to […]

Maris Antolin2023-09-26T13:10:02-07:00April 11th, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Kent Stowell, Peter Boal, Swan Lake|Comments Off

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Hollywood

By Jackson Cooper

Film Noir is one of Hollywood’s most inventive artistic movements. Beginning in the 1940s, a number of screenplays in Hollywood moved away from the escapist fantasies of the Great Depression towards a more realistic, darker view of the world. These stories were inspired by the hardboiled crime […]

Maris Antolin2022-03-23T13:24:27-07:00March 23rd, 2022|Categories: Performances|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann, Crystal Pite, Film Noir, Plot Point, Psycho|Comments Off

Executive Director’s Notes – Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

Executive Director’s Notes: Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

Dear Friends,

It’s hard to believe that we haven’t been in McCaw Hall for a full, two-weekend, seven-performance mixed repertory program since November of 2019. We’re grateful for every milestone on the road to recovery, and […]

Maris Antolin2023-09-21T14:15:31-07:00March 15th, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Ellen Walker|Comments Off

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

Artistic Director’s Notes: Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

The words “ballet” and “gender-fluid” don’t often appear in the same sentence. In ballet’s early years at the court of Louis XIV, men danced in roles depicting women, but by the 20th century, gender entrenchment had set in. Princes […]

Maris Antolin2023-09-26T13:11:35-07:00March 14th, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Before I Was, Caught, Crystal Pite, David Parsons, Justin Peck, Peter Boal, Plot Point, Robyn Mineko Williams, The Times Are Racing|Comments Off

Pay What You Can at the Ballet

Everyone could use a little ballet magic in their life, and we don’t want the cost of tickets to keep anyone from attending. To that end, February 10, 2022 marks the official start of Pay-What-You-Can Thursdays at PNB!

A limited number of tickets will be set aside every Thursday performance […]

Maris Antolin2023-02-08T10:23:15-08:00February 9th, 2022|Categories: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility (I.D.E.A.), Performances|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Pay What You Can, PNB Box Office, Rush Tickets|Comments Off

Romeo & Juliet: The Timeless Story of Young Love

By Noel Pederson

While it is one of the most famous examples in modern Western culture, Romeo and Juliet is just one of many tales of young love thwarted that have been told in many cultures across the world for thousands of years. From the Persian tale of Layla and […]

Maris Antolin2022-02-05T11:00:00-08:00February 5th, 2022|Categories: Tell the Tale|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Roméo et Juliette, Sergei Prokofiev, William Shakespeare|Comments Off

Executive Director’s Notes – Roméo et Juliette

Dear Friends,

As I write this, we are in the homestretch of 37 performances of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®. Without a doubt, this was our most complicated production in many years, with Covid protocols alone requiring multiple PNB teams to implement. And yet, what a joy […]

Maris Antolin2022-10-31T09:27:09-07:00February 4th, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Ellen Walker, Roméo et Juliette|Comments Off