A conversation with Seattle
Cover photo: The Fairy (guest artist April Ball) and the Prince (Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer James Moore) in a scene … Continue reading Maillot’s ‘Cendrillon’ Takes a New Look at Cinderella Stories
Watching Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers on opening night of Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette (performances run through February 14) reinforces how … Continue reading Maillot’s ‘Roméo et Juliette’ Mesmerizes Once More at PNB
But criticism descends to crochet when he complains that the Balanchine triple bill got just one performance, while PNB “squandered three performances of their short, prestigious New York visit with this trivial ‘Roméo’.”
Trivial? Continue reading Maillot’s “Roméo” Makes Alastair Macaulay Wriggle
With Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette in PNB’s repertoire, the company now had the perfect Valentine’s Day ballet to go with The Nutcracker at Christmas. Its bold infusion of frank sensuality with gorgeous pas de deux left mouths agape — one moment Juliette was arcing backward, held aloft by her Roméo, the next, hands were everywhere! Continue reading Maillot’s Knockout “Roméo et Juliette” Returns to PNB
Robbins places the action in a ballet studio, and another Jerome, last name Tisserand, who has been in the corps at PNB since 2007, danced the faun, a male dancer alone in the studio who rests on the floor, then begins to practice, watching himself in the mirror (actually the audience). Tisserand embodied the vanity of the faun, enamoured of his own beauty. Continue reading PNB’s “Love Stories” Catches Two Dancers in Bloom