Mercury

Holly Hynes has designed more than 200 ballets, including more than 60 at New York City Ballet, where she served as director of costumes for 21 years. PNB audiences have seen her designs in Christopher Wheeldon’s Carousel (A Dance), After the Rain pas de deux, and Polyphonia, Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH, Richard Tanner’s Ancient Airs and Dances, George Balanchine’s Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Ulysses Dove’s Red Angels, and Lynn Taylor Corbett’s Mercury. She also designed the co-production of La Baiser de la Fée for PNB and the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the John F. Kennedy Center where she serves as Resident Costume Designer. She is the leading authority for recreating costume designs for the George Balanchine Trust and the Jerome Robbins Estate in the US and internationally.

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.