Q&A with Principal Dancer Lesley Rausch
If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be? Worry less, enjoy more. You wouldn’t believe how fast a 20-year career can fly by.
Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal Dancer Lesley Rausch Announces Retirement
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Lesley Rausch has announced that she will be retiring at the end of the 2022-23 season. Lesley joined PNB as a member of the corps de ballet in 2001. She was promoted to soloist in 2007 and principal in 2011. Lesley’s incredible 22-year career will be celebrated at the Season Encore Performance, Sunday, June 11, 2023 at McCaw Hall.
)! Choreographed by Kyle Davis for Angelica Generosa, Leta Biasucci, Laura Tisserand, Noelani Pantastico and Lesley Rausch, with costumes by Elizabeth Murphy, Q&A: Peter Boal talks Red Angels
Red Angels, coming up on PNB’s DIRECTOR’S CHOICE program March 16–25, has caught our attention around PNB’s offices. Four incredibly athletic dancers (plus the resounding soundtrack of electric violin) consume the studios during rehearsals of this red hot ballet.
Knowing the late choreographer Ulysses Dove created Red Angels […]
Q&A: Angeli Mamon
Angeli Mamon is from Seattle, Washington. She trained on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, beginning as a DanceChance student in 2003. She attended summer courses at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Miami City Ballet, […]
Angeli Mamon is from Seattle, Washington. She trained on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, beginning as a DanceChance student in 2003. She attended summer courses at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Miami City Ballet, […]
Tell The Tale: Coppélia
Setting: A little town in Galicia, in Eastern Europe. Located between modern-day Poland and Ukraine.
Meet the Characters
Frantz’ fiancée is […]
Swanhilda
Frantz’ fiancée is […]
NYC Tour: Contemporary Innovators
Blog by PNB Dancer Cecilia Iliesiu.
I know I am biased, but PNB knocked New York’s socks off the last two days with the Balanchine Program! However, they don’t know what is coming their way with the next program – Contemporary Innovators.
On the Program —
PNB Tour: George Balanchine’s Square Dance, Prodigal Son, and Stravinsky Violin Concerto
PNB on Tour: George Balanchine’s Square Dance, Prodigal Son, Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Blog by PNB dancer Cecilia Iliesiu.
PNB’s opening night was magical! There had been a few rough rehearsals with tired bodies and swift musical tempos, but once that curtain went up Wednesday evening, we just danced!
NYC Tour: Day 1 Rehearsals
Yesterday (Tuesday) was our one-and-only full rehearsal day before our four-days of consecutive Dress Rehearsals & Performances coming up. Company dancers warmed-up and rehearsed in the beautiful City Center Studio 4. My schedule for yesterday was as follows:
- 12-1:15a Warm-up class with PNB Ballet Master, Otto Neubert at City Center
- 1:35-4:30 Rehearsals for the […]
NYC Tour: A Day in the City
The PNB family has made it to NYC safe and sound on our early Alaska Airline flight. It is my first time touring and traveling with a dance company and I must say it is a blast. It’s a hoot seeing everyone half awake with coffee in hand as we board our early […]