Between Nostalgia and Now | A look into Lily Wills’ new work for the NEXT STEP 2025 program
By Leah Terada This will be Lily Wills’ third time choreographing for NEXT STEP, but something about this one feels different. Maybe it’s the way she’s entering the process: with more trust in her process and a focused attention on connecting with the dancers in the room. “I used to think I had to make something great,” she says, […]
Meet the 2024 NEXT STEP Artist: Amanda Morgan
In this blog, you’ll learn more about PNB dancer Amanda Morgan, who is choreographing a new work with Christopher D’Ariano for NEXT STEP! NEXT STEP provides opportunity, infrastructure, and support to grow tomorrow’s choreographic talent while providing a unique performance opportunity for PNB School’s Professional Division dancers. This year, Professional Division students will perform original work from company dancers […]
Meet the 2024 NEXT STEP Artist: Lily Wills
In this blog, you’ll learn more about PNB Company dancer Lily Wills and her new work for NEXT STEP! NEXT STEP provides opportunity, infrastructure, and support to grow tomorrow’s choreographic talent while providing a unique performance opportunity for PNB School’s Professional Division dancers. This year, Professional Division students will perform original work from company dancers Lily Wills, […]
Meet the Artist Calista Ruat
Calista Ruat hails from Paris, France. She joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a corps de ballet member in 2017, and will premiere her first choreographic work for 2019’s NEXT STEP: OUTSIDE/IN. Calista trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School under the direction of Claude Bessy, where her teachers were Carole Arbo and Attilio Labis, and she was coached by Noella Pontois. Ms. Ruat joined Paris […]