PNB Celebrates Kiyon Ross

Kiyon Ross has had an illustrious career at PNB: from Company Soloist (you may remember him as Kiyon Gaines) to PNB School faculty […]

PNB Celebrates Kiyon Ross

Kiyon Ross has had an illustrious career at PNB: from Company Soloist (you may remember him as Kiyon Gaines) to PNB School faculty […]

PNB Celebrates Kiyon Ross

Kiyon Ross has had an illustrious career at PNB: from Company Soloist (you may remember him as Kiyon Gaines) to PNB School faculty […]

PNB Celebrates Kiyon Ross

Kiyon Ross has had an illustrious career at PNB: from Company Soloist (you may remember him as Kiyon Gaines) to PNB School faculty […]

Maris Antolin2023-09-26T14:45:28-07:00February 23rd, 2021|Categories: Choreographers, Dancers|Tags: Kiyon Gaines, Kiyon Ross, Sum Stravinksy|0 Comments

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Theme and Variations, Signature, Tarantella, The Moor’s Pavane

By PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal

Pacific Northwest Ballet is a choreographer’s company. In some companies, that term might imply one choreographer creates the bulk of the repertoire. That’s not the case with PNB. We celebrate choreography, devoting […]

Maris Antolin2023-09-26T15:47:21-07:00May 2nd, 2019|Categories: Director's Notebook, Next Step 2019, Performances|Tags: 2018/19 Season, George Balanchine, Jose Limon, Kiyon Gaines, Kiyon Ross, Margaret Mullin, Next Step, Next Step Outside/In, Othello, Peter Boal, Price Suddarth, Shakespeare, Signature, Tarantella, The Moor's Pavane, Theme and Variations, Themes & Variations|0 Comments

PNB Conversations: NEXT STEP Program Manager Kiyon Ross

Kiyon Ross wears many hats at PNB: PNB School faculty member, DanceChance mentor, and NEXT STEP program manager, a position he has held since 2012. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Kiyon trained at Baltimore School of the Arts, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre […]

Kiyon Ross wears many hats at PNB: PNB School faculty member, DanceChance mentor, and NEXT STEP program manager, a position he has held since 2012. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Kiyon trained at Baltimore School of the Arts, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre […]

Maris Antolin2019-03-05T12:00:50-08:00March 5th, 2019|Categories: Next Step 2019, Next Step Choreographers, Q&A with Dancers, Choreographers & Staff|Tags: 2018/19 Season, DanceChance, Kiyon Gaines, Kiyon Ross, Next Step, Next Step Outside/In, Sum Stravinsky|0 Comments

Sculptured Dance – SAM/PNB Collaboration

Written by dancer Cecilia Iliesiu.

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
—Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

And I would say […]

And I would say […]

Maris Antolin2022-12-02T09:31:22-08:00August 10th, 2016|Categories: Events, Life at PNB, Performances|Tags: 2015/16 Season, 2016/17 Season, Benjamin Griffiths, Cecilia Iliesiu, Donald Byrd, Kate Wallich, Kiyon Gaines, Leta Biasucci, Lindsay Thomas, Miles Pertl, Olivier Wevers, Olympic Sculture Park, Roy McMakin, SAM, Sculptured Dance, Seattle Art Museum, Spectrum Dance Theater, Summer 2016, Whim W'Him|Comments Off

Wardrobe: Types of Tutus

I am sure you have realized, but PNB is honored to have one of the best Wardrobe Departments in the business. Each morning I pass by the Costume Shop. I am fascinated to see the repairs and constructions for the upcoming PNB performances.

At the beginning of the season when I first […]

Maris Antolin2016-07-09T10:00:50-07:00July 9th, 2016|Categories: Life at PNB, PNB Wardrobe|Tags: Angela Sterling, Divertimento #15, Emeralds, George Balanchine, Kiyon Gaines, Larae Theige Hascall, Marius Petipa, Nutcracker, PNB Costume Shop, PNB Costumes, Sum Stravinksy, Tutus|Comments Off

NEXT STEP Choreographers

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s NEXT STEP is a one-night-only performance for PNBS Professional Division students in an all-premiere line up created by PNB Company members. One of the most fun performances all season long, NEXT STEP is your chance to cheer the next generation of dancers and dance-makers.

Prior to 2011 the […]

Maris Antolin2016-06-19T10:00:40-07:00June 19th, 2016|Categories: Next Step Choreographers, Performances, PNB School|Tags: 2015/16 Season, Andrei Vassiliev, Andrew Bartee, Angelica Generosa, Anton Pankevitch, Barry Kerollis, Charles McCall, Chelsea Adomaitis, Choreography, Christophe Maraval, Eric Hipolito, Ezra Thomson, Jahna Frantziskonis, Jonathan Porretta, Kiyon Gaines, Kyle Davis, Kylee Kitchens, Margaret Mullin, Matthew Renko, Melissa Barak, Next Step, Olivier Wevers, Paul Gibson, Price Suddarth, Sean Rollofson, Sonia Dawkins, Stacy Lowenberg, Stanko Milov, Steven Loch|Comments Off

Q&A: Kyle Davis on NEXT STEP

Kyle Davis is from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He trained at Makaroff School of Ballet and on scholarship at Rock School for Dance Education and North Carolina School of the Arts, and attended summer courses on scholarship at Milwaukee Ballet School, […]

Kyle Davis is from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He trained at Makaroff School of Ballet and on scholarship at Rock School for Dance Education and North Carolina School of the Arts, and attended summer courses on scholarship at Milwaukee Ballet School, […]

Maris Antolin2016-06-17T16:00:50-07:00June 17th, 2016|Categories: Next Step Choreographers, Q&A with Dancers, Choreographers & Staff|Tags: 2015/16 Season, A Hundred Ways to Paint the Portion of a Plane Bounded by Such a Curve, Angeli Mamon, Choreography, Christian Poppe, Dylan Wald, Elizabeth Murphy, Jahna Frantziskonis, Kiyon Gaines, Kyle Davis, Next Step, Pauline Smith, PNB Costumes, PNB Wardrobe, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Sum Stravinksy, Sylvia Pas de Deux|Comments Off