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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Corps de Ballet
Anton Pankevitch is from St. Petersburg, Russia. He trained at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, the School of American Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet School. He joined New York City Ballet in 1995. In 1997, he joined Dutch National Ballet, and in 2002, he joined the Royal Ballet. He returned to Dutch National Ballet briefly before joining Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2005.
Mr. Pankevitch has performed leading roles in George Balanchine's Emeralds, Ulysses Dove's Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, William Forsythe's In the middle, somewhat elevated, Ronald Hynd's The Sleeping Beauty (Bluebird pas de deux, Gold and Silver pas de trois), Kent Stowell's Hail to the Conquering Hero and Nutcracker (Prince), and Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room and Nine Sinatra Songs.
He has also been featured in George Balanchine's Ballet Imperial, La Sonnambula and La Valse; Kent Stowell's Swan Lake; Richard Tanner's Ancient Airs and Dances; and Twyla Tharp's Waterbaby Bagatelles. At his former companies, he performed works by Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, August Bournonville, William Forsythe, Magey Marin, Marius Petipa, Jerome Robbins, Ton Simons, Twyla Tharp, Rudi van Dantzig, Hans van Manen, and Toer van Schayk, among others.
Mr. Pankevitch has performed as a guest artist with San Jose Ballet, Ballet Ireland, and throughout Japan.
In addition to his performing career, Mr. Pankevitch has been a guest teacher at Ballet Hannover (Germany), Cronsberg Ballet School (Boston), English National Ballet, Higashitani Ballet (Japan), Keiko Ikawa Ballet School (Tokyo), National Ballet Academy (Amsterdam), San Jose Ballet, and Saratoga School of Dance.
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