PNB dancer Christian Poppe. Photo by Lindsay Thomas.

Christian Poppe

Soloist

Pronouns: He/Him
Soloist: 2022
Corps de Ballet: 2014
Apprentice: 2013

Christian Poppe is from Lake Stevens, Washington. He studied on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School and Cornish College of the Arts Preparatory Dance, as well as the Dance School in Everett, Johnson and Peter’s Tap Dance, Ballet Bellevue, and Betty Spooner’s Creative Arts Foundation. He attended summer courses at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, National Ballet School (Toronto), Houston Ballet Ben Stevenson Academy, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, and Goh Ballet Academy, and he was a 2013 recipient of the Flemming Halby Exchange with the Royal Danish Ballet School.

In addition to performances with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Christian has performed for Dance! Fremont and the Men in Dance Festival—Against the Grain.

Leading & Featured Roles

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® // George Balanchine

Cavalier, Soldier Doll, Hot Chocolate, Tea, Candy Cane

A Midsummer Night’s Dream // George Balanchine

Puck

Tarantella // George Balanchine
Little mortal jump // Alejandro Cerrudo
One Thousand Pieces // Alejandro Cerrudo
Silent Ghost // Alejandro Cerrudo
Cacti // Alexander Ekman
New Suite // William Forsythe
One Flat Thing, reproduced // William Forsythe
The Sleeping Beauty // Ronald Hynd

Bluebird pas de deux, Wolf

Her Door to the Sky // Jessica Lang
3 Movements // Benjamin Millepied
Bacchus // Matthew Neenan
Emergence // Crystal Pite
Plot Point // Crystal Pite
Carmina Burana // Kent Stowell
Cinderella // Kent Stowell

Jester, Evil Sprite

Afternoon Ball // Twyla Tharp
Brief Fling // Twyla Tharp
Tide Harmonic // Christopher Wheeldon

Original Roles

Love and Loss // Donald Byrd
F O I L // Eva Stone