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

Artistic Director’s Notebook – The Personal Element, Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, Ghost Variations

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

It happened. On September 22, the curtain rose, the orchestra played, bejeweled costumes caught the light, and dancers floated. It was exactly as we had witnessed countless times before, and yet, it felt […]

2023-09-26T13:18:35-07:00October 28th, 2021|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Artistic Director’s Notebook – The Personal Element, Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, Ghost Variations
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Artistic Director’s Notebook: One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump

Artistic Director’s Notebook: One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump

One day, in the not-too-distant future, we’ll have well-researched books, brilliant movies, pithy podcasts, and all historical accounts—complete with hindsight and scholarship—on the topic of this extraordinary time in our lives, but for now, we rely on […]

2023-09-26T14:25:11-07:00September 16th, 2021|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , , |Comments Off on Artistic Director’s Notebook: One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump
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Executive Director’s Notes – One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump

Executive Director’s Notes: One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump

Dear PNB Subscribers, 

Every fall since PNB’s founding, we have welcomed back audiences with the same back-to-school-season excitement: a fresh start, new faces, and the shared anticipation of being together in the same space. We’ve never, though, issued […]

2023-09-26T14:25:03-07:00September 16th, 2021|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – One Thousand Pieces, Future Memory, and Little mortal jump
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Season Encore message from Peter Boal & Ellen Walker

Dear Friends,

There were a few moments just over a year ago, when we looked at each other and wondered if PNB would survive the circumstances surrounding us – no dance, no music, no ballet […]

There were a few moments just over a year ago, when we looked at each other and wondered if PNB would survive the circumstances surrounding us – no dance, no music, no ballet […]

2021-06-18T10:30:00-07:00June 18th, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , |1 Comment
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Executive Director’s Notes: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds

Executive Director’s Notes: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds

 

Dear Friends,  

 

Thank you for joining us for our final digital repertory program of this wholly unique season. A year ago, we were consumed with apprehension about the wellbeing of our colleagues, the future of […]

2023-09-26T14:35:47-07:00June 11th, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds
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Artistic Director’s Notebook: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds

 

As a stream of earth-toned silk slices through space, a dancer vanishes before our eyes. It is a fleeting, yet memorable moment. So piercing and sudden, we question if our eyes deceived us. This is not the smooth […]

2023-09-26T14:34:38-07:00June 9th, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Artistic Director’s Notebook: Curious Kingdom, PACOPEPEPLUTO, The Veil Between Worlds
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Executive Director’s Notes – Coppélia

Executive Director’s Notes: Coppélia

 

Dear Friends,

We’re so glad to see you here, on your screen, for the Rep V installment in our Dance Happens Everywhere digital season. Your enthusiasm for both the new works we’ve created for film as well as PNB’s archival features […]

2023-09-26T14:37:47-07:00May 3rd, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Executive Director’s Notes – Coppélia
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Artistic Director’s Notebook: Coppélia

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Coppélia

In the spring of 1974, my parents took my sister and me to a performance of George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s Coppélia at New York State Theater. It wasn’t my first ballet, but it was the one that prompted me to ask my mom […]

2023-09-26T14:38:41-07:00May 3rd, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Artistic Director’s Notebook: Coppélia
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Artistic Director’s Notebook: Future Memory, Pictures at an Exhibition, and And the sky is not cloudy all day

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Future Memory, Pictures at an Exhibition, and And the sky is not cloudy all day

Language changes based on the times we are living in. New words are introduced. Words that used to mean one thing take on a whole new meaning. This past year has […]

2023-09-26T14:40:43-07:00March 25th, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: , , , , , , , , |3 Comments
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Artistic Director’s Notebook: Roméo et Juliette

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Roméo et Juliette

We are, collectively, what is often referred to in drama as the Greek Chorus. A large group of peripherals who laugh, gasp, interpret plot and articulate the hidden meditations of characters. We know where the story is headed. We can even sound […]

2023-09-26T14:50:07-07:00February 8th, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook|Tags: , , , , , |5 Comments
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