A conversation with Seattle
The first impression left by Pacific Northwest Ballet’s opening performance of an all-Forsythe repertory (through March 22 at McCaw Hall) was … Continue reading ‘Totally, Imaginatively Original’: the Forsythe Showcase at PNB
Pacific Northwest Ballet began the season with a bang Friday, presenting one of Balanchine’s most iconic works, the three-part, evening-length … Continue reading Jewels at PNB
Friday night saw the opening of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s latest repertory program, works by two unusually creative choreographers, Jiri Kylian … Continue reading PNB Has Creative Imagination in Spades
It’s called AIR TWYLA because she’s been Artist-In-Residence at Pacific Northwest Ballet for the past year, but the title of … Continue reading Twyla in the Air
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
223 children participate each year, in several casts, so no one is on for all thirty performances. The care and training they receive is phenomenal. This is not a school performance. These kids are performing like professionals. When they are on stage they are totally on, acting their roles with seeming naturalness. Continue reading Still Nuts About PNB’s Nutcracker
Where Apollo is restrained asceticism, Carmina Burana, by contrast, is on the other end of the spectrum. As the curtain opens, audience members gasped at the sight of the Seattle Choral Company suspended upstage above the stage, as set designer Ming Cho Lee’s ginormous “wheel of fortune” looms above the rest of the stage. Continue reading O Fortuna! PNB’s Pits Apollo vs. Carmina Burana at McCaw Hall