Executive Director’s Notes: THE TIMES ARE RACING

Welcome to the fall arts season in Seattle and PNB’s first repertory program of our performing year. We hope that with this program, and the rest of our 2024/25 season, you encounter the warmest welcome from PNB and experience the universal connection and sense of well-being that ballet can so often provide. We deeply appreciate your support and presence in our community – from all of us at PNB, thank you for joining us.

2024-09-13T11:31:56-07:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances, PNB on Tour|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes: THE TIMES ARE RACING

Executive Director’s Notes: Coppélia

Welcome to Coppélia, PNB’s final repertory program of the 2023/24 season. It’s been several years since we last presented the luminous, lighthearted world of Coppélia, and it’s a joy to bring this beautiful production back to life. If you joined us for our most recent two programs, you may find it hard to believe that the company of classical dancers onstage before you could possibly be the same group of artists who so totally committed to the contemporary choreography of Crystal Pite, Alejandro Cerrudo, Matthew Neenan, Twyla Tharp, and Jessica Lang in March and April.

2024-05-24T16:43:03-07:00May 24th, 2024|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes: Coppélia

Executive Director’s Notes: Kent Stowell’s Swan Lake

Welcome to Swan Lake, one of Kent Stowell’s most stunning contributions to PNB’s repertoire. This production of Swan Lake and I arrived at PNB at the same time, in the summer of 2003. I was struck by the magnitude of the physical production, and still find new details in Ming Cho Lee’s magnificent sets and Paul Tazewell’s opulent costumes. For a new-to-PNB arts administrator, I could not have encountered a more beautiful ballet beginning.

2024-01-29T09:13:23-08:00January 29th, 2024|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes: Kent Stowell’s Swan Lake

Executive Director’s Notes: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® 2023

On behalf of everyone at PNB, thank you for choosing to celebrate the season with us. Over the years we’ve heard from many in our audience about what this production means to you. It may mark the official start of your holidays, be the destination for a much anticipated annual outing with visiting family, or offer a nostalgic antidote to a too-busy time of year...

2023-11-20T15:22:37-08:00November 20th, 2023|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances, The Nutcracker|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® 2023

Executive Director’s Notes: The Window, Wartime Elegy, Love and Loss

Welcome to PNB’s November program and the place in our season we often mark by presenting new and contemporary work – a very PNB counterpoint to The Nutcracker immersion already taking place in our studios. This program is also an excellent expression of the interconnectedness of the dance world.

2023-10-30T14:06:49-07:00October 30th, 2023|Categories: Choreographers, Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes: The Window, Wartime Elegy, Love and Loss

Executive Director’s Notes – Petite Mort, Sechs Tänze, Cacti

Welcome to the first repertory program of PNB's 51st season, and the beginning of the fall arts season in Seattle. Like the start of a new school year, this phase of our season is full of promise, some uncertainty (we love snow, for example, but not so much during The Nutcracker...), and excitement around anticipated moments ahead. Like many of you, I can't wait to see the return of Crystal Pite's The Seasons' Canon, Donald Byrd's Love and Loss, and Kent Stowell's mesmerizing Swan Lake, among others.

2023-09-21T14:20:12-07:00September 19th, 2023|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – Petite Mort, Sechs Tänze, Cacti

Executive Director’s Notes – Brief Fling, Sweet Fields, Waiting at the Station

Executive Director’s Notes: Brief Fling, Sweet Fields, Waiting at the Station

Welcome to the final program of this historic season. Whether you are newly back to in-person performances with us of you’ve been along for the thrilling ride all season, it’s wonderful to see you. So much has transpired since our cautious […]

2023-09-21T14:25:24-07:00June 2nd, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – Brief Fling, Sweet Fields, Waiting at the Station

Executive Director’s Notes – Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

Executive Director’s Notes: Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

Dear Friends, 

It’s hard to believe that we haven’t been in McCaw Hall for a full, two-weekend, seven-performance mixed repertory program since November of 2019. We’re grateful for every milestone on the road to recovery, and […]

2023-09-21T14:15:31-07:00March 15th, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

Executive Director’s Notes – Roméo et Juliette

Dear Friends,

 

As I write this, we are in the homestretch of 37 performances of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®. Without a doubt, this was our most complicated production in many years, with Covid protocols alone requiring multiple PNB teams to implement. And yet, what a joy […]

2022-10-31T09:27:09-07:00February 4th, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – Roméo et Juliette

Executive Director’s Notes – The Nutcracker 2021

Dear Friends,

From all of us at PNB, welcome to The Nutcracker! We are so wildly happy you’re here. The 2020 holiday season was simply not the same without you. You’ll see that our production and McCaw Hall’s festive atmosphere are adapted for the most up-to-date health and safety reasons. […]

2022-11-02T12:05:22-07:00November 24th, 2021|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances, The Nutcracker|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – The Nutcracker 2021
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