Remembering Designer Ming Cho Lee
PNB remembers legendary set designer Ming Cho Lee, who created iconic designs for Kent Stowell’s ballets including The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Firebird.
Letters from PNB Artists: PNB Orchestra Member Evan Pengra Sult
The Pacific Northwest Ballet Future Fund ensures that the artists at PNB are able to dance, create, and bring you joy during these times of uncertainty and change. We ask that you consider a gift to the fund, which will help keep our dancers, musicians, staff, and production teams employed and insured. We could not do this […]
Letters from PNB Artists: PNB Orchestra Member Joyce Ramée
The Pacific Northwest Ballet Future Fund ensures that the artists at PNB are able to dance, create, and bring you joy during these times of uncertainty and change. We ask that you consider a gift to the fund, which will help keep our dancers, musicians, staff, and production teams employed and insured. We could not do this […]
Promotions: Cecilia Iliesiu, Angelica Generosa, Dylan Wald
Seattle, WA – “It gives me tremendous pleasure to be able to promote three dancers in our company this evening.” As part of the festivities at First Look to the Future, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s first-ever all-digital gala, Artistic Director Peter Boal announced corps de ballet dancer Cecilia Iliesiu has been promoted to the rank of Soloist, and Angelica Generosa and Dylan […]
PNB’s Ghostly Ballets
It’s almost Halloween and here at PNB, we’re reflecting on our most spine-tingling ballets. Keep scrolling for these pieces that are guaranteed to get you into the Halloween mood! And as a bonus, we put together a playlist of music from these works to keep ghostly good times going! Ballet’s best Romantic-era ghost story. Giselle has everything: romance, royalty […]
PNB School’s New Mentorship Program
In early 2020, PNB dancer Amanda Morgan made a suggestion to PNB’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (I.D.E.A.) Committee for a new mentorship program that would connect PNB School upper level students with PNB Company dancers. With the approval of Peter Boal and PNB School, Amanda and fellow Company dancer, Cecilia Iliesiu, spearheaded the creation […]
Q&A with Kuu Sakuragi
Dancing through a pandemic has its plethora of challenges, but lucky for us, Pacific Northwest Ballet has a fully digital season in the works to share with subscribers. Not only are we back in action at the ballet, but we are also thrilled to welcome a new dancer, Kuu Sakuragi, to the Corps de Ballet. […]
Q and A with Josh Spell, PNB School Consulting Therapist
PNB School is thrilled to introduce you to Josh Spell, former PNB Company Dancer, and our new Consulting Therapist! Josh officially joined the PNBS Consulting staff in July to present health and wellness seminars for our 2020 Seattle Summer Course students, and he will oversee student health and wellness programs and initiatives moving forward. He […]
Elle Macy and Dylan Wald on Being Back in the Studios
After about five months away, PNB has begun slowly welcoming dancers back into our studios at the Phelps Center. Safety is paramount. PNB is following local health and safety mandates, consulting public health advisors and partnering with AGMA (dancers’ union) on strict return-to-work protocols including screening measures, timed entry into the building, dancers divided up […]
PNB Principal Dancer Sarah Ricard Orza Announces Retirement
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Sarah Ricard Orza has announced that she has decided to retire after 13 years with the company. Ms. Orza joined PNB as a member of the corps de ballet in 2007; she was promoted to soloist in 2010 and principal dancer in 2017. Ms. Orza will focus her post-PNB career […]