Which Jerome Robbins Ballet are You?

PNB’s current program, EMERGENCE, features Jerome Robbins’ iconic ballet Afternoon of a Faun. PNB has several of Robbins’ ballets in our repertoire. Today, we’ve picked three of our favorites for a short quiz: Afternoon of a Faun, Dances at a Gathering, and Fancy Free. If you were a Jerome Robbins’ ballet, which of these would you be? Find out with this quick quiz!

2025-03-06T08:58:17-08:00March 5th, 2025|Categories: Performances|Tags: 2024/25 Season, Afternoon of a Faun, Dances at a Gathering, Fancy Free, Jerome Robbins|Comments Off

Executive Director’s Notes: Dances at a Gathering, F O I L, One Body, Swan Lake, Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds, The Calling, Mopey, The Trees The Trees, Red Angels

Dear Friends,

As late spring turned to summer in Seattle, all of us at PNB took a deep, steadying breath. It was […]

2023-09-26T15:25:20-07:00October 13th, 2020|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: 2020/21 Season, Dances at a Gathering, Diamonds, Digital Season, Ellen Walker, Emeralds, F O I L, Mopey, One Body, Red Angels, Rubies, Swan Lake, The Calling, The Trees The Trees|2 Comments

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Dances at a Gathering, F O I L, One Body, Swan Lake, Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds, The Calling, Mopey, The Trees The Trees, Red Angels

Dance Happens Everywhere. That’s the title of our 20-21 digital season, and it’s true; dance does happen everywhere. I’m not just referring to different cultures […]

2023-09-26T15:28:07-07:00September 14th, 2020|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: 2020/21 Season, Albert Evans, Dances at a Gathering, Diamonds, Digital Season, Emeralds, Eva Stone, F O I L, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Jessica Lang, Jewels, Kent Stowell, Marco Goecke, Mopey, One Body, Peter Boal, Red Angels, Robyn Mineko Williams, Rubies, Swan Lake, The Calling, The Trees The Trees, Ulysses Dove|7 Comments

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Circus Polka, In the Night, Afternoon of a Faun, Other Dances, West Side Story Suite, Dances at a Gathering, The Concert

By Artistic Director Peter Boal

At about 5’8”, Jerome Robbins was a truly towering ﬁgure in ballet. I know he was 5’8” because he frequently […]

2023-09-26T16:22:51-07:00September 20th, 2018|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: 2018/19 Season, Afternoon of a Faun, Bart Cook, Circus Polka, Dances at a Gathering, In the Night, Jerome Robbins, Jerome Robbins Festival, New York City Ballet, Other Dances, Peter Boal, The Concert, West Side Story Suite|Comments Off

Jerome Robbins Festival: Circus Polka, The Concert (or, The Perils of Everybody), and Dances at a Gathering.

Jerome Robbins Festival: Circus Polka, The Concert (or, The Perils of Everybody), and Dances at a Gathering

PNB kicks off the 2018-2019 season with a festival dedicated to the 100-year anniversary of Jerome Robbins’ birth. We wanted to make it BIG, so we’re performing two alternating programs. It’s something we haven’t done […]

2023-10-10T11:51:59-07:00August 31st, 2018|Categories: Choreographers, Performances, Tell the Tale|Tags: 2018/19 Season, Circus Polka, Dances at a Gathering, Jerome Robbins, Jerome Robbins Festival, The Concert|Comments Off

Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering

DirChoice09 0359 — Photo © Angela Sterling

While Jerome Robbins is best known in popular culture for this innovative work in Broadway musicals, such as On the Town, Gypsy, The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof & West Side Story, for […]

2018-04-25T16:16:52-07:00April 25th, 2018|Categories: Choreographers, Performances|Tags: 2017/18 Season, Dances at a Gathering, Fancy Free, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Jerome Robbins Festival, Lincoln Kirstein, On the Town|Comments Off