Kyle Davis
Kyle Davis is from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He trained at Makaroff School of Ballet and on scholarship at Rock School for Dance Education and North Carolina School of the Arts, and attended summer courses on scholarship at Milwaukee Ballet School, the School of American Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He also studied with Ethan Stiefel and Warren Conover. Mr. Davis joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2008 and was promoted to corps de ballet in 2009, soloist in 2016, and principal in 2020.
In 2008, Mr. Davis won the Prix de Lausanne competition in Lausanne, Switzerland. He also won various awards in the Youth American Grand Prix Regional and Finals in 2005 and 2006. He was a 2007–2008 recipient of the Elizabeth Harriet Weaver Memorial Scholarship and the Martha and Spencer Love Foundation Scholarship for Excellence in the Arts at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Mr. Davis’ works for PNB’s NEXT STEP choreographers’ showcase include Sylvia Pas de Deux (2012), Fanfare and Waltz from “Sylvia” (2013), A Hundred Ways to Paint the Portion of a Plane Bounded by Such a Curve, Part Two (2015), Make It So (2016), and Variegated Voices (2017). In 2014, he choreographed the third act of Sylvia for PNB School’s Annual School Performance. He has also created work for Chop Shop Contemporary Dance Festival and was a 2017 choreographic resident at University of North Carolina School of the Arts. In 2018, Mr. Davis choreographed A Dark and Lonely Space for PNB’s mainstage. In 2021, he choreographed Las Estrellas for PNB’s digital season.
Leading Roles
George Balanchine
Agon
Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fée”
Emeralds
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Cavalier, Soldier Doll, Hot Chocolate, Tea, Candy Cane)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon, Puck)
Prodigal Son (Friend)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Morrisine)
La Source
Square Dance
Tarantella
Theme and Variations
arms that work
Giselle (Peasant pas de deux)
And the sky is not cloudy all day*
Love and Loss*
Little mortal jump
One Thousand Pieces
Sylvia Pas de Deux
Empire Noir
New Suite
One Flat Thing, reproduced
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
Rush
Place a Chill
The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Florimund, Gold and Silver pas de trois, Blue Bird pas de deux)
Petite Mort
The Veil Between Worlds*
Jessica Lang
Ghost Variations*
Her Door to the Sky
Roméo et Juliette (Benvolio, Acolyte)
Kammermusik No. 3*
Bacchus*
Cylindrical Shadows
Debonair
Year of the Rabbit
Emergence
Plot Point
RAkU (Monk)
Concerto DSCH
Pictures at an Exhibition
The Concert
Dances at a Gathering
Carmina Burana
Cinderella (Prince, Jester, Evil Sprite)
Nutcracker (Prince, Commedia)
Swan Lake (Jester, Wolfgang, Pas de trois, Neapolitan Dance)
TAKE FIVE…More or Less
Signature*
Brief Fling
Waterbaby Bagatelles
The Perpetual State
* Originated role