Joyous or Creepy? This Ballet Toys With Both.
Celebratory choreography meets a voyeuristic doll tale and creepy visuals in this stylistic mashup. Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Coppélia runs through June 9.
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Nature on an Epic Scale: The Seasons’ Canon
Crystal Pite’s epic makes a welcome return to Pacific Northwest Ballet, through 4/21. The Seasons’ Canon might be the most thrilling thing on stage.
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Theatre People, This Ballet’s For You
The theatre magic in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘One Thousand Pieces’ is as prominent as the dances themselves. It makes for a great show. PNB’s latest contemporary mixed rep runs through March 24.
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Some Big Stages Are Set for 2025. Who’s Doing What?
Pacific Northwest Ballet just announced its 2024-25 season, hot on the heels of season announcements from The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Opera, Village Theatre, and Broadway at The Paramount. Now that most of the biggest stages in musicals and dance are set, here’s a look at their seasons.
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Swan Lake Is a Respite in Beauty (and Tragedy)
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s classic Swan Lake continues to enthrall. It runs through February 11.
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Glimpse Through the Panes: At PNB, a Theatrical ‘Window’ to Love and Loss
Theatrical, affecting, timely. The slate of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s current triple-bill cover those and more; and the world premiere work by a Northwest-based choreographer is particularly stunning. Love & Loss runs through 11/12.
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PNB’s Season Opener Comes Out to Play
As if shaking the dust off any stodgy notions of the form, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s season-opener goes full-on play-time. The triple-bill Petite Mort runs through 10/1 at McCaw Hall.
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Living Sculptures: Stone Dancers Take to the Trees
In StoneDance’s Wander/Wonder, some of the region’s top dancers drew inspiration from installations in Coupeville’s Price Sculpture Forest.
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On to the ‘Next’ One: PNB Dancers Choreograph, and Students Take the Big Stage
Next Step premieres works by Pacific Northwest Ballet company members, performed by PNB School dancers. The annual feature, on June 16, is followed by a pair of PNB School showcases on June 17.
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At Pacific Northwest Ballet, a Party of Premieres Closes the Semicentennial Season
Pacific Northwest Ballet closes its 50th anniversary season with a triple-bill of new works and a party on stage. It runs through June 11.
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The Magic and Comedy Shimmer in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s staging of the Shakespeare comedy, which pairs choreography by George Balanchine with Felix Mendelssohn’s score, dazzles with precision performance amid a lighthearted fantasy realm. It runs through April 23 (and streams through May 1).
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From Digital to Here-and-Now, ‘Boundless’ Stages Dance for the New World
Out of the pandemic leap three new works — one created for the digital realm and two world premieres — in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s latest triple-bill, Boundless. It runs through March 26 (and streaming through April 3).
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NWTheatre Awards: Companies, Trends, & Touring Shows of 2022
Recognizing companies, touring shows, a trend, and even a single scene that made 2022 a year to remember.
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Revenge Is Sweet in Ballet’s Preeminent Ghost Story
The classic story ballet ‘Giselle’ greets the future while keeping its history in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s stunning staging. It performs through 2/12, with a streaming version available 2/16-20.
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A New Year in Dance: What’s on Stage in Early 2023
Big dance spectacles take to the stage in Seattle and Tacoma this season.
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NWTheatre Awards: Best-Loved Shows of 2022
All around the Sound, theatre and dance companies treated viewers to a lot of great performances in 2022. Here’s what stood out to NWTheatre as the most powerful, most memorable, most spectacular of the year.
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Lands of the Sweets: Your Guide to the Many Takes on The Nutcracker
Here’s some help navigating our area’s many stunning variations on the classic dance, ‘The Nutcracker’.
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Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Journey Across Classic and Brand-New Is an Epic Yes
The triple-bill combines a lesser-known classic with a timely world premiere, then finishes with a mighty flourish. ‘Carmina Burana’ runs live through 10/2, then streams 10/6-10.
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The Herons and the Swans
A viewing of Mark Morris’ contemporary short works and Kent Stowell’s classic ‘Swan Lake’, at Pacific Northwest Ballet, finds surprising connections among them. Digital access to ‘Swan Lake’ is available through 5/16.
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Plotting New Paths: Four Contemporary Works
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Rep 4, ‘Plot Points’, highlights a new generation of dance. It performs through March 27, and streams online through April 4.
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Balanchine, Morris, and Byrd: A Delight in Three Nutcrackers
Three interpretations of ‘The Nutcracker’ on Seattle stages demonstrate its adaptability for the tastes — and moods — of new audiences. The invigorated classic epic (at Pacific Northwest Ballet, through 12/28), a sassy spin-off and an elegant workshop (at the Paramount Theatre and On the Boards, both through 12/15) are all delightful, and distinct.
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With a Trio of Inventive New Works, PNB’s ‘Locally Sourced’ Is Ballet for We Who Don’t ‘Do the Ballet’
With elegance, precision, and an army of highly trained dancers, the slate of new works up now at Pacific Northwest Ballet will satisfy — and excite — frequent-goers, too. But the appeal of ‘Locally Sourced’ is much broader. It runs through November 17.
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