Jahna and Angelica not only have great synergy as a directing team, but off-stage are great friends. Both are twenty years old and in their third season as members of PNB’s corps de ballet. They also share the ability to do “crazy […]
Company dancer and NEXT STEP choreographer Price Suddarth is premiering his third piece with PNB School Professional Division this year. While each of his premieres has been different, Price’s singular style has emerged: his goal is to create a space in which the audience can have an experience and depart from the ordinary […]
“I was always bossy,” says Andrew Bartee, though you’d never know it from his modest, playful persona. The oldest of four kids, he “always had an urge to put something on—plays, variety or talent shows, gymnastic routines.” His first experience of choreographing was in a class at Kirkland’s International School of Ballet, where he “liked […]
The active use of imagination and dreaming of what might be possible without limits should never be underestimated as forces for youthful creativity. We at PNB take a lot of pride in our youth, and in our future, which is why we are continuing to provide teens around the Seattle area with a […]
I have an insatiable need for speed as both a dancer and a choreographer! I‘m not quite sure when it began, but for me the faster it can be the more exciting. Much of the work that the audiences here in Seattle have seen from me has a vitality and fervor that is […]
There is a new tradition brewing around Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Phelps Center this time of year, and that is the beginning of the wonderful process of NEXT STEP. This distinctive performance where PNB Company dancers choreograph new works for our most advanced students in PNB School’s Professional Division is set for June 16, […]
What do Peter Boal and the youth of Seattle know that most people don’t? What June 18th at 7PM will look like! On May 4th we had our first very successful TEEN NIGHT at PNB’s studios hosted by Peter Boal, and thanks to everyone who showed up and the choreographers, we have people […]
The best thing about the NEXT STEP performances is that you never know what to expect. The reason you do not know what to expect is because most people involved with this process are new to it; not only the choreographers, but the Professional Division students as well. They will be the ones […]
Every year at this time, there is such a rush of energy felt around the PNB studios. There is a performance season in full swing, the school is starting rehearsals for our June performance, and the youngest and newest choreographers are quietly anxious, as they begin to feel the stress of what to […]
As many of you know, Pacific Northwest Ballet presents an annual performance that highlights Company dancers choreographing on the young and rising talent in the school. That newly named performance is called Next Step (this performance was previously title Choreographers’ Showcase). What you may not know, however, is that what you see at […]