DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: JIM KENT
Reflecting on beloved dancer and musician Jim Kent, and his career of dynamic, expressive dancing.
Peter Boal
PNB’s DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
This season’s Director’s Choice features both world premieres and old favorites.
FINALE IN FILM
Restless Creature, a documentary on ballerina Wendy Wheldon ending her 30-year career dancing at NYCB, premieres in Seattle at NW Film Forum.
REMEMBERING DANCE WRITER R.M. CAMPBELL
When Richard Campbell started writing about dance at the Seattle P-I in the early 1970s, the community was a very different place than it is… Read More »REMEMBERING DANCE WRITER R.M. CAMPBELL
EPIC PROPORTIONS AT PNB’S DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
David Dawson’s Empire Noir boldly opened PNB’s 2016-17 Director’s Choice, the curtain rising on ten dancers in front of John Otto’s massive set piece: a… Read More »EPIC PROPORTIONS AT PNB’S DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
Gilded Magic in PNB’s Cendrillon
“Don’t get me wrong, I love Disney.” So begins Artistic Director Peter Boal’s “Director’s Notebook” for Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production of Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Cendrillon. Disney… Read More »Gilded Magic in PNB’s Cendrillon
PNB’s American Stories Enthrall
American Stories is Pacific Northwest Ballet’s endeavor to depict what it is to be American. Performed at McCaw Hall June 3-12, it boasts a distinctive… Read More »PNB’s American Stories Enthrall
PNB Offers New Flavor of Nutcracker
For Seattleites, it’s hard to recall a more electric night at the ballet than Friday, November 27. Before a packed and anxious house, the curtain… Read More »PNB Offers New Flavor of Nutcracker
PNB’s Emerging Contemporary Edge
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Emergence program (November 6-14 at McCaw Hall) brings together four wildly different works of contemporary ballet. On the one hand, the show… Read More »PNB’s Emerging Contemporary Edge