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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Principal Dancers
Jeffrey Stanton is from Santa Cruz, California. He trained at San Francisco Ballet School and the School of American Ballet. In addition to classical ballet, he also studied ballroom, jazz, and tap dancing. He joined San Francisco Ballet in 1989 and left to join Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 1994. He was promoted to Soloist in 1995 and made a Principal in 1996.
Mr. Stanton has danced leading roles in George Balanchine's Agon, Apollo, Ballet Imperial, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Chaconne, Diamonds, Divertimento No. 15, Emeralds, The Four Temperaments, La Valse, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Demetrius, Divertissement pas de deux), Serenade, Stars and Stripes, Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Theme and Variations, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Western Symphony, and Who Cares?; Todd Bolender's Souvenirs; Val Caniparoli's Lambarena; Dominique Dumais' Scripted in the Body; Eliot Feld's Intermezzo; William Forsythe's Artifact II and In the middle, somewhat elevated; Paul Gibson's Diversions and Rush; Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow (Count Danilo) and The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré); Robert Joffrey's Remembrances; José Limón's The Moor's Pavane; Peter Martins' Fearful Symmetries and Valse Triste; Mark Morris's Pacific; Marius Petipa's Le Corsaire Pas de Trois, Don Quixote, and Paquita; Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free and In the Night; Kent Stowell's Carmina Burana, Cinderella (Prince), Delicate Balance, Firebird, Hail to the Conquering Hero, Kammergarten Tänze, Nutcracker (Prince), Quaternary, Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried), The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), and Zirkus Weill; Lynne Taylor-Corbett's The Ballad of You and Me, Mercury, and The Quilt; Glen Tetley's Voluntaries; and Twyla Tharp's Nine Sinatra Songs.
He originated leading roles in Stephen Baynes' El Tango; Donald Byrd's Seven Deadly Sins; Caniparoli's The Bridge; Nicolo Fonte's Almost Tango and Within/Without; Kevin O'Day's Aract and [soundaroun(d)ance]; Kent Stowell's Carmen, Palacios Dances, and Silver Lining; and Christopher Stowell's Zaïs. At San Francisco Ballet, he performed leading roles in works by Lew Christensen, Agnes De Mille, James Kudelka, Mark Morris, and Jerome Robbins.
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Jeffrey Stanton in William Forsythe's In the middle, somewhat elevated. (Photo: Angela Sterling) |
Mr. Stanton performed the role of Demetrius in the BBC's 1999 film version of Pacific Northwest Ballet's production of Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream, filmed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. He is also featured on the 1999 danceWORKS fitness video. He has performed as a guest artist for Le Gala des Étoiles in Montreal, Prague Gala of Stars, and the TITAS Command Performance of International Ballet in Dallas, Texas. In 2000, he participated in The George Balanchine Foundation's Interpreters Archive series, dancing excerpts from Balanchine's Episodes, coached by Melissa Hayden.
Headshot Photography: Angela Sterling
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