Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal Dancer Elizabeth Murphy Announces Retirement

Principal dancer Elizabeth Murphy announces her retirement after 15 years with PNB. Celebrate her career at the Season Encore performance.
Dancer Promotions! Christopher D’Ariano, Clara Ruf Maldonado, Mark Cuddihee, Ashton Edwards, Juliet Prine, and Yuki Takahashi
Following the opening night world premiere performance of AfterTime in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s current mixed rep program, PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal announced the promotion of four corps de ballet dancers to the rank of soloist, and two soloists being elevated to principal dancers: Mark Cuddihee, Ashton Edwards, Juliet Prine, and Yuki Takahashi are now soloists, and Christopher […]
Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal Dancer Lucien Postlewaite Announces Retirement

Principal dancer Lucien Postlewaite announces his retirement after over 20 years with PNB. Celebrate his career at the Season Encore performance.
What Comes Next? A note from Price Suddarth about his family’s next big adventure
PNB dancer Price Suddarth reflects on 16 seasons and announces Jumpkut, a multimedia contemporary ballet company he’s launching with wife Emma Love Suddarth.
Pacific Northwest Ballet Dancers Cecilia Iliesiu, Miles Pertl, and Price Suddarth Announce Departures
Pacific Northwest Ballet will be saying farewell to principal dancer Cecilia Iliesiu, as well as soloists Miles Pertl and Price Suddarth at the end of PNB’s 2024-25 season. Iliesiu, who recently welcomed son Francis to her family, has been accepted to Duke University where she will begin MBA studies this fall at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Pertl intends […]
Dancer Promotion! Luther DeMyer

Congratulations to Luther DeMyer, promoted from corps de ballet to Soloist at Pacific Northwest Ballet. Read tributes from Peter Boal and Kiyon Ross.
Pacific Northwest Ballet Dancers Ezra Thomson and James Kirby Rogers Announce Departures
The curtain comes down on Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 2023-2024 season with its annual Season Encore Performance, a celebratory salute to the season and a fond farewell to departing dancers. PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal has announced the line-up for the one-night-only program, which will feature PNB’s Company, along with the world-famous PNB Orchestra under the baton […]
Meet PNB’s Newest Company Dancers!
PNB is excited to introduce you to our newest company dancers, Kali Kleiman, Emerson Boll, and Samuel Portillo. These three dancers joined PNB’s Company just this season! Get to know each artist a little better in the brief interviews below. When I got into the podcasting space, it was right in the height of Covid. […]
Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal Dancer James Yoichi Moore Announces Retirement

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer James Yoichi Moore has announced that after a 20-year career with the company, he is retiring at the end of PNB’s 2023-24 season. Moore joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2004 and was promoted to soloist in 2008 and principal in 2013. His […]
Dancer Promotions! Clara Ruf Maldonado, Kuu Sakuragi, and Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan

November 3, 2023 – Seattle, WA: “It gives us great pleasure to be able to promote three dancers in our company this evening.” Before the curtain-raiser performance of Alexei Ratmansky’s Wartime Elegy on opening night of LOVE & LOSS, Pacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director Peter Boal and Associate Artistic Director Kiyon Ross announced to the audience that […]