A Prodigal Returns: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘Roméo et Juliette’
McCaw Hall, Seattle Saturday Evening, February 6, 2016 Dean Speer How fitting that the much beloved and missed Noelani Pantastico made her…
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What’s old is new again: Pacific Northwest Ballet in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker
mMcCaw Hall, Seattle, WA November 28, 2015 (evening) Dean Speer One of the greatly anticipated events of the 2015-6 ballet season in Seattle…
Pacific Northwest Ballet: See the Music
McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA September 26, 2015 Dean Speer While I don’t know whether choreographer Christopher Wheeldon ever spent much time as …
A Balm in Town: Pacific Northwest Ballet School 34th Annual School Performance
McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA June 13, 2015 Dean Speer Each year, I greatly look forward to PNB School’s Annual Performance for a couple of reasons. O…
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Next Step: A Choreographic Primer
McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA June 12, 2015 Dean Speer Of the dances on Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Next Step annual program of new works choreogra…
Past, Present and Future: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Season Encore Performance
McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA June 7, 2015 Dean Speer We all build, particularly in the arts, on the shoulders of those who came before us and oft…
Hitting the Jackpot: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Concerto DSCH and Carmina Burana
McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA May 30, 2015 Dean Speer You just knew going into it, even before the curtain went up, that PNB’s Spring Show, Carmin…
Feathers, Fins, and Fine Capes: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s <i>Swan Lake</i>
McCaw Hall, Seattle. WA; April 11, 2015 Dean Speer From the plaintively evocative opening strains in the oboe, you know you’re in for a good …
The Vertiginous Thrill of Forsythia
Pacific Northwest Ballet: The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, New Suite, In the Middle Somewhat Elevated McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA; March 14, 201…