Fifty-two members of Pacific Northwest Ballet arrived in Colorado this evening for three performances with the 2010 Vail International Dance Festival. This is our third visit to Vail in four years; we brought 38 dancers, 9 ballets, 3 musicians and lots of warm clothing. The weather can be sublime in these mountains, but as I […]
By now you’ve probably heard the old story about me and Coppélia. To do it justice, I’ll have to go back to 1948, when the New York City Ballet was born. That same year, my grandfather accepted a position working for the United Nations, causing my grandparents to relocate to […]
Dear Friends,
Tonight the curtain rises on Ronald Hynd’s wonderful production of The Sleeping Beauty. After eight weeks of preparation, we are ready for performance. There are as many as five casts of some roles and many premieres. Try to catch as many as you can. […]
Tonight we open our season with Jean Christophe Maillot's Roméo et Juliette. The dancers have been working for the past seven weeks preparing for tonight's opening and there is definitely excitement in the air.