Between Nostalgia and Now | A look into Lily Wills’ new work for the NEXT STEP 2025 program
PNB dancer Lily Wills creates a new four-movement work for NEXT STEP 2025, set to Chris Cohen’s music. Explore her choreographic process and costume designs.
Unwrapping …throes of increasing wonder | Leah Terada in conversation with Kiyon Ross
By Leah Terada I’m writing this blog from a room tucked away in the Phelps Center, just above Studio C, the company’s main studio. Through the walls, I can hear the familiar sounds of rehearsal, the boisterous score of …throes of increasing wonder by composer Cristina Spinei as it seeps its way into my corner of the building, […]
A Sensory Prelude to a Larger Mexican Tale | Kyle Davis & Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan NEXT STEP 2025
Kyle Davis and Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan choreograph a pas de deux set in 1800s Veracruz, inspired by Día de Los Muertos, for PNB’s NEXT STEP 2025 program.
Recognizing Jewish American Heritage Month at PNB
Compiled by Miriam Landis, a Pacific Northwest Ballet School faculty member. Foreword May is Jewish American Heritage Month. PNB is proud to celebrate the generations of Jewish Americans who have shaped our arts, history, and culture and continue influencing our future. Pacific Northwest Ballet is a community, and the individuals among us who bring Jewish […]
Q&A with Rena Butler
PNB is excited to present a world premiere by a choreographer who isn’t yet familiar to PNB audiences, Rena Butler. Read on to learn more about Rena and her work! What was your path to becoming a choreographer? Rena: It started from the tender age of ten. There was a show on MTV called Making the Video. You saw the inner […]
Legacies in Motion: A Tribute to Lynn Lindsay | Jonathan Batista, NEXT STEP 2025
By Leah Terada On June 13, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s NEXT STEP program will feature a powerful new work, Suddenly, O FIM (The End), by Principal Dancer and choreographer Jonathan Batista. This piece marks a deeply personal choreographic debut, created in honor of Lynn Lindsay– a devoted PNB supporter and a dear friend of Batista’s. Lynn’s presence in Seattle’s […]
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 […]
Have you heard of STG Dance for PD?
Learn about STG Dance for PD®, free dance classes for people with Parkinson’s disease offered at PNB’s Francia Russell Center in partnership with STG.
PNB School Retirements: Denise Bolstad and Abbie Siegel
PNB School honors retiring faculty Denise Bolstad (45 years) and Abbie Siegel (34 years) for their extraordinary contributions to ballet education in Seattle.
Grief, Hope, and the Ethereal
PNB dancer Amanda Morgan choreographs Ether for NEXT STEP 2025, exploring grief, connection, and the ethereal body through movement with 16 student dancers