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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Soloists
Maria Chapman is from St. Simons Island, Georgia. She was a student of Magdalena Maury and studied under Patricia Bromley at Terpsichore Co., Ltd. in Atlanta. She continued her training on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet and attended summer courses at Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and the School of American Ballet. She joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 1995, was promoted to corps de ballet in 1996, and to Soloist in 2005.
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Maria Chapman as the Peacock in Kent Stowell's Nutcracker. (Photo: Angela Sterling) |
Ms. Chapman has danced leading roles in George Balanchine's Agon, Concerto Barocco, Divertimento No. 15, Emeralds, The Four Temperaments, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Divertissement Pas de Deux, Helena), Symphony in C, and Symphony in Three Movements; Todd Bolender's Souvenirs; Ulysses Dove's Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven and Vespers; Nicolo Fonte's Within/Without; William Forsythe's Artifact II, In the middle, somewhat elevated, and One Flat Thing, reproduced; Kiyon Gaines's  {SCHWA}; Paul Gibson's Sense of Doubt; Ronald Hynd's The Sleeping Beauty (Bluebird pas de deux); Jean-Christophe Maillot's Roméo et Juliette (Rosaline); Mark Morris's Pacific; Jerome Robbins' The Concert and In the Night; Kent Stowell's Carmina Burana, Delicate Balance, Firebird, Nutcracker (Clara, Flora, Peacock), and Silver Lining; Lynne Taylor-Corbett's Mercury; Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room, Nine Sinatra Songs and Waterbaby Bagatelles; and Christopher Wheeldon's Polyphonia.
She originated a leading role in Victor Quijada's Suspension of Disbelief and featured roles in Donald Byrd's Seven Deadly Sins and Christopher Stowell's Quick Time.
She has been featured in Balanchine's Ballet Imperial, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Chaconne, Diamonds, La Sonnambula, La Valse, Serenade, and Who Cares?; Stowell's Hail to the Conquering Hero, Swan Lake, and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; Val Caniparoli's Lambarena and Torque; Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow and The Sleeping Beauty; Peter Martins' Fearful Symmetries; Kevin O'Day's [soundaroun(d)dance]; Kirk Peterson's Amazed in Burning Dreams; Marius Petipa's Paquita; and Rudi Van Dantzig's Ginastera.
Ms. Chapman danced 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. She is also featured in the 1999 danceWORKS fitness video and began appearing in Bloch dancewear advertising in 2002.
In addition to her performing career, Ms. Chapman is a founding member (1998 to present) of Second Stage for Dancers, PNB's career transition program. She is currently chairperson of the Second Stage Dancer Committee.
Headshot Photography: Angela Sterling.
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