D.A.B.D.A. (On Death and Dying)

Music

Hector Berlioz
(​Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14, 1830, Scène aux champs)

Choreography

Ezra Thomson

Lighting Design

Cast

10 dancers

Premiere

June 2017
Pacific Northwest Ballet (School Performance)

Artist Biographies

Randall G. Chiarelli (1949-2024) devoted his career to lighting for dance, much of it at Pacific Northwest Ballet, and also for American Ballet Theatre, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Houston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, among others. His many collaborators included choreographers Donald Byrd, Mark Dendy, Ronald Hynd, Kent Stowell, Susan Stroman, and Christopher Wheeldon. Chiarelli graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in painting and sculpture.