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Pacific Northwest Ballet soloists Clara Ruf Maldonado and Christian Poppe, and corps de ballet dancer Yuki Takahashi in Emeralds from...

Clara Ruf Maldonado and Lucien Postlewaite in an excerpt from Jean-Christophe Maillot's Roméo et Juliette. Photo by DAN LAO We go to the...

Pacific Northwest Ballet School Professional Division students in Amanda Morgan’s Ether , presented during the 2025 NEXT STEP...

Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers in the world premiere of Rena Butler’s Cracks. Photo © Angela Sterling.   In the final days of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s fifty-second season, edge-of-summer energy roared through McCaw Hall with ineffable vigor. The end of a season always feels particularly full of sentiment, but closing on a program so finely tailored to the company’s vast range seemed to encompass extraordinary gratitude for what we’ve been allowed to witness this

Pacific Northwest Ballet corps de ballet dancer Noah Martzall and soloist Madison Rayn Abeo in Kiyon Ross’s …throes of increasing wonder, which PNB is presenting on a triple-bill with works by Rena Butler and Twyla Tharp, running May 30 – June 8, 2025. Photo © Angela Sterling Pacific Northwest Ballet has been uplifting us all season, but their final program of the season is a particularly joyous, thought-provoking celebration of the human experience through three distinct voi

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Angelica Generosa and Dylan Wald in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette , Photo ©...

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Dylan Wald and Angelica Generosa in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette , Photo © Angela Sterling. Few ballets feel as though they have impacted the identity of Pacific Northwest Ballet as much as Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette. Maillot’s dramatic masterpiece was a declaration of new artistic notion when it replaced Kent Stowell’s 1987 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in the company’s repertory. In 2008, Pacific

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Lucien Postlewaite and soloist Clara Ruf Maldonado in Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun , Photo © Angela Sterling. Moments before the last performance of "Emergence" at Pacific Northwest Ballet last weekend, as the orchestra tuned and that beloved scarlet curtain sparkled, eager anticipation hung in the air. All around, I heard people asking each other “How many times have you seen this one already?” and the passionate pre-show expl

Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers in Crystal Pite’s Emergence , which PNB is presenting on a mixed-bill with works by Jerome Robbins, Marco Goecke, and Price Suddarth, onstage at Seattle Center’s McCaw Hall March 14 – 23 Photo © Angela Sterling I’ve seen a generous amount of ballet in my life, yet I still have no explanation for how watching a body move through space can call forth such depth of emotion. On Opening Night of Emergence at Pacific Northwest Ballet, I came

Olympic Ballet Theatre dancers in Nadja Saidakova's "Elegia" by Into Dust Photography On a deep February night, the streets of Edmonds...

Pacific Northwest Ballet corps de ballet dancer Ginabel Peterson and principal dancer Jonathan Batista, with company dancers and PNB...

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Angelica Generosa and Jonathan Batista in Peter Boal’s new staging of The Sleeping Beauty ,...

Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers and PNB School students in the snow scene from George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®,...

Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist Christopher D’Ariano with company dancers in Stravinsky Violin Concerto, choreograhy by George...

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Elle Macy and soloist Christopher D’Ariano in Stravinsky Violin Concerto, choreography by...

Dylan Wald and PNB company dancers in The Veil Between Worlds ANGELA STERLING Sometimes revisiting a ballet is like greeting an old...

After a long summer away, every moment of PNB's The Times Are Racing feels like pure soul nourishment, as well as a celebration of...

When speaking of student endeavors, one is tempted to say that the future is bright, but after seeing Pacific Northwest Ballet’s NEXT...

Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan and Kyle Davis in the "wheat pas de deux" ANGELA STERLING There’s a particular kind of magic in story ballets. The...

Emerald Ballet Theatre’s production of Coppélia opens in a different manner than any version of this classic that I have seen. It begins...