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

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

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

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds

 

As a stream of earth-toned silk slices through space, a dancer vanishes before our eyes. It is a fleeting, yet memorable moment. So piercing and sudden, we question if our eyes deceived us. This is not the smooth […]

2023-09-26T14:34:38-07:00June 9th, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Artistic Director’s Notebook: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds

Dance Happens Everywhere Digital Season Encore

The culmination of our first-ever digital season, a celebration of departing dancers, and an enormous, heartfelt thank-you to our loyal patrons during this unprecedented past year, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Season Encore Performance bids adieu to a season like no other. Season Encore celebrates the careers […]

Pride 2021 Reading List

As a part of PNB’s celebration of Pride Month 2021, we have compiled these resources for anyone looking to add to their To Be Read or To Be Watched lists. This post is not exhaustive by any means, but we hope it will be a helpful place to start for anyone looking for […]

PNB School Faculty Spotlight: Meg Potter

This month’s PNB School Spotlight features PNB School Assistant Principal Meg Potter!

Meg Potter is originally from Metuchen, NJ, and trained on scholarship at the Joffrey Ballet School in NYC. She danced with Joffrey II Dancers, then joined American Ballet Theatre under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov.  After relocating to the […]

Executive Director’s Notes – Coppélia

Executive Director’s Notes: Coppélia

 

Dear Friends,

We’re so glad to see you here, on your screen, for the Rep V installment in our Dance Happens Everywhere digital season. Your enthusiasm for both the new works we’ve created for film as well as PNB’s archival features […]

2023-09-26T14:37:47-07:00May 3rd, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – Coppélia

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Coppélia

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Coppélia

In the spring of 1974, my parents took my sister and me to a performance of George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s Coppélia at New York State Theater. It wasn’t my first ballet, but it was the one that prompted me to ask my mom […]

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