Ginabel
Peterson
Ginabel Peterson (she/her) is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She trained at the Wissahickon Dance Academy, Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington D.C., Miami City Ballet School, and the Indiana University Ballet Theatre. She attended summer courses at Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington D.C., Miami City Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and was a Resident Intern at the Ballet West Academy Summer Intensive. Ginabel joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2021.
At Ballet West, Ginabel danced in William Christensen’s The Nutcracker, Nicolo Fonte’s Piece of My Heart, Pamela Robinson’s Snow White, and Adam Sklute’s Giselle.
Ginabel was on the cover of A Ballet Education’s magazine, A Celebration of Black Women in Ballet, in September 2020. She was featured in Thrive125: A Utah Celebration on PBS in December 2020.
Featured & Leading Roles
George Balanchine
The Nutcracker
(Hot Chocolate, Coffee, Demi Flowers)
Peter Boal
Giselle
(Bathilde)
Donald Byrd
Love and Loss
Original Roles
Kiyon Ross
…throes of increasing wonder
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Q&A with Corps Member Ginabel Peterson
If you were not a dancer, is there an alternate career path you would have chosen? If I wasn’t a dancer, I would’ve either tried to become a lawyer or model.
A New Season Begins
September at PNB has been busy! Company dancers are back in rehearsal, the PNB School is back in session, and we're all busy preparing for our return to McCaw Hall this month. With a mixture of joy and trepidation, we're stretching our collective muscles, breathing deeply, and turning our [...]
Welcoming Our New Dancers for the 2021/22 Season
Pacific Northwest Ballet is excited to welcome new dancers to our studios this season. Jonathan Batista and James Kirby Rogers are joining the Company as Soloists, and Ginabel Peterson and Lily Wills are joining as Corps de Ballet members. Watch the episode of PNB is Listening where the four are interviewed [...]