Ezra
Thomson
Ezra Thomson is from San Bernardino, California. He studied on scholarship at Riverside Ballet Arts, Orlando Ballet School, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School and attended summer courses at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, the School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, National Ballet School (Canada), the Rock School, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Burklyn Ballet Theatre. Mr. Thomson was a 2009 recipient of the Flemming Halby Exchange with the Royal Danish Ballet School. He danced with Orlando Ballet before joining Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2009. He was promoted to corps de ballet in 2010 and soloist in 2017.
In 2007, Mr. Thomson won the gold medal in the regional Youth America Grand Prix competition.
Mr. Thomson has choreographed works for Pacific Northwest Ballet’s NEXT STEP and Pacific Northwest Ballet School’s annual School Performance. In 2016, he choreographed Stinger for Sculptured Dance, a collaboration between Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Art Museum presented at Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park. In 2018, he choreographed The Perpetual State for Pacific Northwest Ballet. In 2021, he choreographed and originated a role in Salt of the Earth for PNB’s digital Season Encore performance.
Leading Roles
Agon
Coppélia (Dr. Coppelius)
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Cavalier, Herr Drosselmeier, Soldier Doll, Hot Chocolate, Tea, Candy Cane)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck, Lysander, Bottom)
Prodigal Son (Friend)
arms that work*
Dirty Goods*
Giselle (Old Man)
And the sky is not cloudy all day*
Love and Loss*
Little mortal jump
Memory Glow*
Silent Ghost
A Dark and Lonely Space
Rassemblement
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated
New Suite
Sum Stravinsky
The Piano Dance
Place a Chill*
The Sleeping Beauty (Duke of Burgundy, Gallison, Blue Bird pas de deux, Puss in Boots)
Forgotten Land
Petite Mort
Sechs Tänze (Six Dances)
Her Door to the Sky
The Veil Between Worlds*
Roméo et Juliette (Mercutio)
3 Movements
This Space Left Intentionally Blank*
Kammermusik No. 3*
Bacchus
Cylindrical Shadows
Debonair*
Wash of Gray*
Emergence
Plot Point
Mating Theory*
Suspension of Disbelief
Concerto DSCH
The Concert
Fancy Free
In the Night
West Side Story Suite (Riff)
F O I L*
Carmina Burana
Cinderella (Harlequin)
Nutcracker (Prince, Herr Drosselmeier)
Swan Lake (Wolfgang, Czardas, Neapolitan Dance)
TAKE FIVE … More or Less
The Intermission Project*
Signature*
Afternoon Ball
Brief Fling
Nine Sinatra Songs
Waiting at the Station
Polyphonia
Tide Harmonic
The Trees The Trees*
Q&A with Soloist Ezra Thomson
Do you have talents or passions outside of dance? My passions outside of dancing including woodworking, metal working, playing music, fishing, hiking, and working on my classic cars.
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