Pacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director, Peter Boal examines the works on the current repertoire.

Executive Director’s Notes – Brief Fling, Sweet Fields, Waiting at the Station

Executive Director’s Notes: Brief Fling, Sweet Fields, Waiting at the Station

Welcome to the final program of this historic season. Whether you are newly back to in-person performances with us of you’ve been along for the thrilling ride all season, it’s wonderful to see you. So much has transpired since our cautious […]

2023-09-21T14:25:24-07:00June 2nd, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – Brief Fling, Sweet Fields, Waiting at the Station
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Artistic Director’s Notebook: Brief Fling, Sweet Fields, Waiting at the Station

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Brief Fling, Sweet Fields, Waiting at the Station

Jahna Frantziskonis strutted casually across the studio floor on pointe while tapping her left palm with her right index finger.

 

“Twyla, is she texting?” I asked “…on pointe?” Twyla nodded. “I think you’re the first person to choreograph […]

2023-09-26T13:08:33-07:00June 1st, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , , , |1 Comment
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Artistic Director’s Notebook: Swan Lake

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Swan Lake

Swan Lake defines a classical ballet company. It offers the epitome of cohesion for a corps de ballet, the apex of artistry for principal dancers, a challenge and a triumph for an orchestra, and an opportunity to lay claim to greatness. It certainly helped to […]

2023-09-26T13:10:02-07:00April 11th, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Artistic Director’s Notebook: Swan Lake
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Executive Director’s Notes – Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

Executive Director’s Notes: Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

Dear Friends, 

It’s hard to believe that we haven’t been in McCaw Hall for a full, two-weekend, seven-performance mixed repertory program since November of 2019. We’re grateful for every milestone on the road to recovery, and […]

2023-09-21T14:15:31-07:00March 15th, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing
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Artistic Director’s Notebook: Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

Artistic Director’s Notes: Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing

The words “ballet” and “gender-fluid” don’t often appear in the same sentence. In ballet’s early years at the court of Louis XIV, men danced in roles depicting women, but by the 20th century, gender entrenchment had set in. Princes […]

2023-09-26T13:11:35-07:00March 14th, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Artistic Director’s Notebook: Before I Was, Caught, Plot Point, The Times Are Racing
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Executive Director’s Notes – Roméo et Juliette

Dear Friends,

 

As I write this, we are in the homestretch of 37 performances of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®. Without a doubt, this was our most complicated production in many years, with Covid protocols alone requiring multiple PNB teams to implement. And yet, what a joy […]

2022-10-31T09:27:09-07:00February 4th, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – Roméo et Juliette
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Artistic Director’s Notebook-Roméo et Juliette

Artistic Director’s Notebook-Roméo et Juliette

The story of Roméo et Juliette offers many takeaways: humor, drama, tears, and passion, to name a few. From my first read of the play in Mr. Crosby’s seventh-grade classroom to a recent viewing of the new Steven Spielberg film version of West Side Story, I’ve enjoyed a lifetime of […]

2023-09-26T13:12:31-07:00January 31st, 2022|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment
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Executive Director’s Notes – The Nutcracker 2021

Dear Friends,

From all of us at PNB, welcome to The Nutcracker! We are so wildly happy you’re here. The 2020 holiday season was simply not the same without you. You’ll see that our production and McCaw Hall’s festive atmosphere are adapted for the most up-to-date health and safety reasons. […]

2022-11-02T12:05:22-07:00November 24th, 2021|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances, The Nutcracker|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – The Nutcracker 2021
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Artistic Director’s Notebook – George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker 2021

Artistic Director’s Notebook: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ 2021

“This cannon fires cheese,” Mr. Gio explained in a recent battle scene rehearsal for George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, prompting all the nine and ten-year-old Soldiers to giggle uncontrollably.

 

“What kind of cheese?” asked Soldier Number Seven, […]

2023-09-26T13:13:37-07:00November 23rd, 2021|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances, The Nutcracker|Tags: , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Artistic Director’s Notebook – George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker 2021
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Executive Director’s Notes – The Personal Element, Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, Ghost Variations

 

Thank you for joining us today at McCaw Hall or from your digital viewing space—wherever that may be! It is difficult to describe the elation we […]

Executive Director’s Notes: The Personal Element, Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, Ghost Variations

Dear Friends,

 

Thank you for joining us today at McCaw Hall or from your digital viewing space—wherever that may be! It is difficult to describe the elation we […]

2023-09-26T13:19:14-07:00November 4th, 2021|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – The Personal Element, Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, Ghost Variations
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