Choreography
Jerome Tisserand
Composer
Johannes Brahms
Music
String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Op. 88, Allegro non troppo ma con brio
Costume Design
PNB Costume Shop
Lighting Design
Randall G. Chiarelli and Reed Nakayama
Cast
11 dancers
Premiere
June 2017
Pacific Northwest Ballet
The world premiere of Jerome Tisserand’s Les salons Parisiens is generously underwritten by H. David Kaplan and Greg Kusnick & Karen Jo Gustafson.
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.
Reed Nakayama is a Seattle-based Lighting and Projection Designer. He joined PNB in 2013 as a stagehand, and in 2019, was promoted to caretaker of the company’s copious designs. Here, he has illuminated stages in collaboration with artists such as Alexei Ratmansky (Wartime Elegy), Jessica Lang (Ghost Variations), Danielle Rowe (The Window), and Christopher Wheeldon (Curious Kingdom). He received a BFA in Performance Production from Cornish College of the Arts.