Welcome PNB’s 2022/23 Season Apprentices!
This season, PNB is excited to promote five PNB School Professional Division students into the Company as Apprentices. Get to know these dancers in their brief interviews below. Learn what they’re looking forward to in PNB’s 50th Anniversary Season, the best advice they’ve received, and more, and help us welcome Luca Anaya, Dylan Callahan, Rosalyn […]
PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal Announces Three Promotions at CARMINA BURANA Opening Night.
September 23, 2022 – Seattle, WA – “It gives me great pleasure to be able to promote three dancers in our company this evening.” Prior to the curtain going up for on opening night of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 50th Anniversary season, PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal announced to the audience that soloists James Kirby Rogers, Jonathan […]
Promotion: Kiyon Ross to become Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new Associate Artistic Director.
September 19, 2022, SEATTLE, WA – Pacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director Peter Boal has announced that Kiyon Ross has been promoted to the position of Associate Artistic Director. Mr. Ross, currently serving as PNB’s Director of Company Operations, assumes the new leadership position effective immediately. “It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Kiyon […]
Kiyon Ross: From PNB School Student to Associate Artistic Director
By Theresa Ruth HowardAuthor, Diversity Strategist, and ConsultantLearn more about Theresa’s work at MoBBallet.org. Quite simply, Kiyon Ross is the embodiment of Pacific Northwest Ballet. Not only has he been a staple in the organization for 22 years, but has worked in almost every area of the Company as a student, Soloist dancer, AGMA union delegate, choreographer, […]
Q&A with Rachel Foster
This school year, former PNB Principal dancer Rachel Foster returns to PNB as a member of our PNB School faculty. Welcome back, Ms. Foster! Rachel Foster is from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She trained at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet and San Francisco Ballet School. She joined Pittsburgh […]
PNB by the Decades: Our “Far-Out” First Years
Alongside many other key Seattle organizations, we are celebrating our 50th anniversary at Pacific Northwest Ballet. Through the years, PNB has experienced a lot of twists and turns. Read on to see how we boogied through our first 10 years in the ‘70s! Most companies don’t spring up out of the blue, and PNB is […]
Twyla Tharp at PNB
“The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.” Twyla Tharp is extraordinary. Take one look at her bio and you can see it immediately. But Twyla’s iconic status goes beyond her mountains of awards, medals, prizes, fellowships, honorary degrees, and three books. […]
Meet the NEXT STEP Artist: Lily Wills
Lily Wills (she/her) is from Los Angeles, California. She trained at The Portland Ballet, the Oregon Ballet Theatre School, and the graduate program at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. She attended summer courses at The Washington Ballet, HARID Conservatory, and Oregon Ballet Theatre School. She joined Carolina Ballet as a trainee in 2015 and was promoted to […]
Meet the NEXT STEP Artist: Noah Martzall
Noah Martzall is from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He studied at Walnut School of the Arts and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and he attended summer courses at the Chautauqua Institution, Nutmeg Conservatory, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Mr. Martzall joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2020 and was promoted to corps de ballet in 2021. […]
Meet the NEXT STEP Artist: Mark Cuddihee
Mark Cuddihee is from Greenville, South Carolina. He studied at Carolina Ballet Theatre, the School of American Ballet, Boston Ballet School, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet, Miami City Ballet School, Boston Ballet School, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. In 2017, he was a participant […]