Q&A with Dave Jensen, Summer Residence Director

Q&A with Dave Jensen, Summer Residence Director

We know your job is crazy, so how would you describe it in the “30-second elevator pitch”? 

My stock description is “I run the dorm for PNB’s 5-week summer intensive program for about 200 teenage advanced ballet students from all over the […]

2024-07-08T14:35:55-07:00September 17th, 2021|Categories: Life at PNB, Q&A with Dancers, Choreographers & Staff, Summer Course|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Q&A with Dave Jensen, Summer Residence Director

Executive Director’s Notes – One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump

Executive Director’s Notes: One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump

Dear PNB Subscribers, 

Every fall since PNB’s founding, we have welcomed back audiences with the same back-to-school-season excitement: a fresh start, new faces, and the shared anticipation of being together in the same space. We’ve never, though, issued […]

2023-09-26T14:25:03-07:00September 16th, 2021|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump

Artistic Director’s Notebook: One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump

Artistic Director’s Notebook: One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump

One day, in the not-too-distant future, we’ll have well-researched books, brilliant movies, pithy podcasts, and all historical accounts—complete with hindsight and scholarship—on the topic of this extraordinary time in our lives, but for now, we rely on […]

2023-09-26T14:25:11-07:00September 16th, 2021|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , , |Comments Off on Artistic Director’s Notebook: One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump

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 eyes on the horizon. […]

2022-12-02T09:26:51-08:00September 9th, 2021|Categories: Life at PNB, PNB School|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on A New Season Begins

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 by Executive Assistant […]

Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal Dancer Seth Orza announces retirement, and launch of new business, ORZA

ORZA combines technology and experience to revolutionize dance shoes designed for the next generation of dancers.

August 12, 2021 – SEATTLE, WA – Following a lifelong career in dance, Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Seth Orza has announced his retirement from the company and his leap into a […]

2021-08-12T09:00:00-07:00August 12th, 2021|Categories: Dancer Announcements, Dancers|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal Dancer Seth Orza announces retirement, and launch of new business, ORZA

Q&A with dancer Genevieve Waldorf

We interviewed PNB Dancer Genevieve Waldorf about how she balances dancing for PNB with working on her undergraduate degree at Harvard University (she’s majoring in Applied Mathematics with a Focus in Government and minoring in Computer Science), her upbringing in Los Angeles, how she’s spent her time during the pandemic, and more!

2021-07-02T11:00:00-07:00July 2nd, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Dancers, Q&A with Dancers, Choreographers & Staff|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Q&A with dancer Genevieve Waldorf

Q&A with Steve Sneed, PNB’s Race & Social Justice Consultant

Steve Sneed works closely with Pacific Northwest Ballet leadership and PNB’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee as a race and social justice consultant. He has been consulting with PNB since Fall 2020.

Steve began his career at the age of 15 as the Leader of the African Drum […]

2021-06-29T10:49:51-07:00June 29th, 2021|Categories: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility (I.D.E.A.), Q&A with Dancers, Choreographers & Staff|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Q&A with Steve Sneed, PNB’s Race & Social Justice Consultant

Season Encore message from Peter Boal & Ellen Walker

Dear Friends,

There were a few moments just over a year ago, when we looked at each other and wondered if PNB would survive the circumstances surrounding us – no dance, no music, no ballet […]

There were a few moments just over a year ago, when we looked at each other and wondered if PNB would survive the circumstances surrounding us – no dance, no music, no ballet […]

Executive Director’s Notes: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds

Executive Director’s Notes: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds

 

Dear Friends,  

 

Thank you for joining us for our final digital repertory program of this wholly unique season. A year ago, we were consumed with apprehension about the wellbeing of our colleagues, the future of […]

2023-09-26T14:35:47-07:00June 11th, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds
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