The only question about Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Modern Masterpieces program (at McCaw Hall through March 24) is at which point your soul may incandesce. My instinct is that this is likely to occur in the second half, during Ulysses Dove’s Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven or Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, with its spectacular use of the “fog of minimalism.” Continue reading PNB’s Modern Masterpieces Lives Up to the Hype
It’s a different Dream every night at Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production of the Balanchine work–the casting options must be driving balletomanes wild. Midsummer Night’s Dream has just one more weekend ahead of it at McCaw Hall and then, like so many dreams, it’ll be gone.
With eight dancers leaving PNB at the end of this season, the stakes are high. So are the leaps. Of course you have to see Olivier Wevers and Kaori Nakamura in the Divertissement–but then there’s Carla Körbes and Jeffrey Stanton, too! Continue reading Balanchine’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’: PNB’s Serial Seducer (Review)
