Lesley Rausch – Seattle Dances

OPULENT OPENING AT PNB

PNB’s season opener is visually dazzling, but has the beloved Balanchine ballet become a bore?

“Don’t get me wrong, I love Disney.” So begins Artistic Director Peter Boal’s “Director’s Notebook” for Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production

American Stories is Pacific Northwest Ballet’s endeavor to depict what it is to be American. Performed at McCaw Hall June

Pacific Northwest Ballet bills Coppélia as “the happiest ballet on earth,” and that’s not far off: it’s a comedy where

With Director’s Choice, Pacific Northwest Ballet artistic director Peter Boal programmed a triple bill of works ranging from neoclassical to

The dancers of Pacific Northwest Ballet showed themselves at their best in the four contemporary works of Director’s Choice. Though

“If we shadows have offended / Think but this, and all is mended / That you have but slumber’d here

It’s always a joy to see ballet dancers who can cross the bridge to contemporary work, and this year’s installment

American choreographer Alvin Ailey is often quoted stating that his dancers needed a “ballet bottom” and a “modern top,” and