Q&A with Principal Dancer Lucien Postlewaite
I am most looking forward to our exciting rep. I absolutely love working with choreographers to create new works (which we have a few of this season) and I’m very excited about the return of Giselle, the chance to dance Crystal Pite’s The Seasons’ Canon, and Balanchine’s Duo Concertant. Roméo in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette. Getting to share […]
Q&A with Principal Dancer Elizabeth Murphy
Little mortal jump was the ballet that made me fall in love with contemporary works. I feel fortunate to have been pushed outside my comfort zone and discover a whole new world of dance that has continued to bless and enriched my career. Being a hard worker doesn’t mean you have to be hard on yourself. […]
Q&A with Dave Jensen, Summer Residence Director
My stock description is “I run the dorm for PNB’s 5-week summer intensive program for about 200 teenage advanced ballet students from all over the world.” I’m in charge of the planning, hiring, training, and day-to-day operations of the summer residence program – basically all aspects of student life except when they’re in the studio. […]
Answering Nutcracker FAQs
We’re glad you asked! A random sampling of ballet FAQs. Not at all! There is probably no another ballet that has been performed so many times, in so many different ways. From your neighborhood dance studio to a professional company, the skill of the dancers and scale of the production varies as much as interpretations […]
Q&A: Peter Boal talks Red Angels
Knowing the late choreographer Ulysses Dove created Red Angels on our Artistic Director (then a New York City Ballet principal dancer) Peter Boal, we were eager for an inside look. We asked him to reveal the process behind Red Angels – both as a dancer and a staging artist. Peter Boal: We became very close to Ulysses during the multi-week process […]
Q&A: Giselle Designer Jérôme Kaplan
Peter Boal’s radiant staging of Giselle returns with all-new scenery and costumes by award-winning designer Jérôme Kaplan (above) who is best known to PNB audiences for his designs for Don Quixote, Roméo et Juliette. Q: What steps were critical to your process in creating designs for sets and costumes for PNB’s Giselle? A: I definitely think that the most critical […]