Pacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director, Peter Boal examines the works on the current repertoire.
Dear Friends,
We’re so glad to see you here, on your screen, for the Rep V installment in our Dance Happens Everywhere digital season. Your enthusiasm for both the new works we’ve created for film as well as PNB’s archival features […]
In the spring of 1974, my parents took my sister and me to a performance of George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s Coppélia at New York State Theater. It wasn’t my first ballet, but it was the one that prompted me to ask my mom […]
Language changes based on the times we are living in. New words are introduced. Words that used to mean one thing take on a whole new meaning. This past year has […]
We are, collectively, what is often referred to in drama as the Greek Chorus. A large group of peripherals who laugh, gasp, interpret plot and articulate the hidden meditations of characters. We know where the story is headed. We can even sound […]
This October, the scenic design world, Harvard students, and ballet, theater, and opera audiences everywhere lost an exceptional artist; Ming Cho Lee. While Mr. Lee’s work was renowned around the world, Seattle audiences had the opportunity to delight in his masterpieces through his longtime […]
Dear Friends,
For many years I spent a lot of afternoons and evenings standing just inside the north door of McCaw Hall as Nutcracker audiences arrived for their show. Knowing that Nutcracker revenue supports everything we do […]
When the days grow short and the nights cold and festive holiday lights appear all around us, we spot snow on faraway peaks and wonder whether we might see enough outside our windows to build a snowperson. We also realize […]
Dear Friends,
Thank you for joining us for the second program of our Dance Happens Everywhere digital season. The works presented here all belong on a continuum of work conceived, created, and / or captured during the pandemic. Choreographers, stagers […]
We are all keenly aware we are living through an unprecedented and historic time. Yes, I’m referring to a national reckoning on social and racial injustice, a global pandemic, economic uncertainty, stark political division, surging unemployment, the calamitous effects […]
Dear Friends,
As late spring turned to summer in Seattle, all of us at PNB took a deep, steadying breath. It was […]