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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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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Alonzo King: Choreographer, Thinker, Artist & Teacher  

Internationally renowned as a thinker, choreographer, artist, and teacher, Alonzo King’s ballets bring new awareness to the form. Beginning his San Francisco company, Alonzo King LINES Ballet in 1982, King has long championed an approach that grounds and embeds inquiry within ideas of transcendence. His works call upon legacies found in our collective bodily histories, importantly integrating music, belief systems, […]

2021-10-25T09:00:00-07:00October 25th, 2021|Categories: Choreographers, Performances|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Alonzo King: Choreographer, Thinker, Artist & Teacher  
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A Historical Look at George Balanchine’s Jewels

By Doug Fullington

Jewels. The name sounds expensive and perfect for a box-office hit. But when Balanchine’s “plotless full-length ballet,” as it was touted, premiered at New York City Ballet on April 13, 1967, it had no title, only three sections called Emeralds, Rubies, and Diamonds. (Balanchine explained, “I thought of doing sapphire, too—I […]

2025-07-09T10:19:24-07:00September 28th, 2021|Categories: Performances|Tags: , , , , , , , |1 Comment
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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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Dance Happens Everywhere Digital Season Encore

The culmination of our first-ever digital season, a celebration of departing dancers, and an enormous, heartfelt thank-you to our loyal patrons during this unprecedented past year, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Season Encore Performance bids adieu to a season like no other. Season Encore celebrates the careers […]

2021-06-03T13:44:38-07:00June 3rd, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Dancer Announcements, Dancers, Life at PNB, Performances|Tags: , , , , , , , |1 Comment
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