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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Principal Dancers
 Batkhurel Bold is from Ulan Bator, Mongolia. He trained at the Perm Choreographic Academy in Russia. He joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 1996, was promoted to Soloist in 1999 and made a Principal in 2004.
Mr. Bold has danced leading roles in George Balanchine's Agon, Ballet Imperial, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Concerto Barocco, Diamonds, The Four Temperaments, La Valse, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania's Cavalier, Theseus, Divertissement pas de deux), Serenade, Stars and Stripes, Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and Theme and Variations; Val Caniparoli's Lambarena; Donald Byrd's Subtext Rage; Ulysses Dove's Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven; Nacho Duato's Jardí Tancat and Rassemblement; Nicolo Fonte's Almost Tango; William Forsythe's Artifact II, In the middle, somewhat elevated, and One Flat Thing, reproduced; Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow and The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré); Edwaard Liang's Für Alina; José Limón's The Moor's Pavane; Jean-Christophe Maillot's Roméo et Juliette (Tybalt); Peter Martins' Fearful Symmetries; Mark Morris's Pacific; David Parsons's Caught; Toni Pimble's Two's Company; Marius Petipa's Don Quixote and Paquita; Jerome Robbins' In the Night; Kent Stowell's Carmen, Carmina Burana, Dumbarton Oaks, Duo Fantasy, Firebird, Kammergarten Tänze, Nutcracker (Prince), Orpheus Portrait, Quaternary, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt), Silver Lining, Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried), and Zirkus Weill; Glen Tetley's The Rite of Spring and Voluntaries; Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room and Waterbaby Bagatelles; and Christopher Wheeldon's Polyphonia. He originated a leading role in Olivier Wevers' Shindig.
Mr. Bold performed the role of Theseus in the BBC's 1999 film version of PNB's production of Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream, filmed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London.
In 2007 Mr. Bold performed in the worldwide company debut performance of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He also performed as a guest artist on the Vail International Dance Festival's "International Evenings of Dance" galas.
Photo: Angela Sterling
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