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Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers in Kent Stowell’s Cinderella . Photo © Angela Sterling.   It is the stories we tell ourselves the most that reveal what we urgently need to hear, and the kindness of a Cinderella tale lands potently today. Some ballets carry an essence that confirms what a sacred place this art form touches, a place ungrazed by words where beauty prevails, and Cinderella is indeed a ballet that reminds our own hearts what they so dearly cherish. This

Happily Ever After: Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Leta Biasucci and Lucien Postlewaite as Cinderella and her Prince, in Kent Stowell’s Cinderella . Photo © Angela Sterling. “Partly from the word ‘cinders’ and partly from the Greek word ‘ele’...giver of light.” - Margaret Fleming-Markarian Kent Stowell’s Cinderella , last seen mere weeks before Covid-19 distancing measures would shut McCaw Hall’s doors for eighteen long months, returns to Pacific Northwest Ballet

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Dylan Wald as Drosselmeier, and PNB School student June Grossman as Clara, in the party scene from George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker ® , choreographed by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo © Angela Sterling, 2025. “The most wonderful things can be seen if you have the right sort of eyes for it.” -E.T.A Hoffmann Perhaps because it comes around every December, its broad audience appeal that keeps ballet companies af

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Christopher D’Ariano and Elizabeth Murphy in Dani Rowe’s The Window . Photo © Angela Sterling. During the final performance of In the Upper Room at Pacific Northwest Ballet,   it seemed that perhaps just this one time, the cast of thirteen might truly be incapable of bringing that raging energy to a still. And yet, miraculously, they did. After the seventh standing ovation of the run, as lights lifted and we turned to leave the theat

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Leta Biasucci and Lucien Postlewaite (center) with corps de ballet dancers (L-R) Destiny Wimpye and Genevieve Waldorf in Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room . Photo © Angela Sterling. “A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.” -Twyla Tharp Last June, choreographer Rena Butler asked a potent question that has echoed ever since. “What do we need a balle

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Leta Biasucci and Lucien Postlewaite in Diamonds from Jewels , choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo © Angela Sterling. George Balanchine’s Jewels never lands identically across different eyes, and that is exactly what he intended: for the interpretations to be our own. But there is one thing that​​ audiences seemed to share night after night at Pacific Northwest Ballet during the first rep of the se

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...