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Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) is a ballet company
Ballet company

A ballet company is a group of dancers who perform ballets....
 based in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera
Seattle Opera

The Seattle Opera is an opera company located in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1963 by Glynn Ross, who served as the company's first general director through 1983, Seattle Opera's season runs from August to late May, with five or six operas offered and with eight to ten performances each, often with double casts in major roles to allow...
 and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per capita
Per capita

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 attendance in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, with 11,000 subscribers. Its founding artistic directors, Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, left at the end of the 2004-2005 season.






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Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) is a ballet company
Ballet company

A ballet company is a group of dancers who perform ballets....
 based in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera
Seattle Opera

The Seattle Opera is an opera company located in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1963 by Glynn Ross, who served as the company's first general director through 1983, Seattle Opera's season runs from August to late May, with five or six operas offered and with eight to ten performances each, often with double casts in major roles to allow...
 and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per capita
Per capita

Per capita is a Latin phrase meaning per head with per meaning "through" or "by" and capita meaning "heads." Both words together equate to the phrase "for each head."...
 attendance in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, with 11,000 subscribers. Its founding artistic directors, Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, left at the end of the 2004-2005 season. Both had studied with and danced for George Balanchine
George Balanchine

George Balanchine , born Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to Georgians parents, was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a pioneer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet: his work created modern ballet, based on his deep knowledge of classical for...
. Peter Boal
Peter Boal

Peter Boal is artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle, Washington. He was born in Bedford, New York, in 1965 and began studies at the School of American Ballet at age nine....
 succeeded Stowell and Russell as Artistic Director following their retirement
Retirement

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. The company performs with 44 dancers, fourteen of whom are principals
Principal dancer

A principal dancer is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company. A principal may be male or female....
; six soloists, twenty-four corps de ballet
Corps de ballet

In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who are not soloists. They are a permanent part of the ballet company and often work as a backdrop for the principal dancers....
 dancers, as well as two apprentices. There are over 100 performances throughout the year.

In 1974, the Pacific Northwest Ballet School was founded. Formerly directed by Francia Russell, and now directed by Peter Boal, it has been considered to be, "One of the leading, if not the definitive, professional training school in the country."

PNB performs in McCaw Hall
McCaw Hall

The Marion Oliver McCaw Hall is a performance hall and opera house located in Seattle, Washington. Inaugurated in June 2003, it was constructed within the basic steel support structure of the earlier Seattle Opera House, originally created for the World's Fair in 1962 and gutted for this reconstruction....
 at the Seattle Center
Seattle Center

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. It is especially known for its performance of the Stowell/Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature who is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963....
 Nutcracker
The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker Op. 71, is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891?92. Alexandre Dumas, p?re's adaptation of the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E....
, which it has been presenting since 1983. In 2006, the company was chosen to perform in the Fall for Dance Festival
Fall for Dance Festival

Fall for Dance is an annual dance festival presented by New York City Center in New York City. Established in 2004 as a means to introduce new audiences to dance, and loosely based on the Delacorte Theater Dance Festival model of the 1960s and 1970s, Fall For Dance showcases five different dance companies on each of the festival?s six...
 at New York's City Center Theatre
New York City Center

New York City Center, historically known as City Center of Music and Drama, and also known as New York City Center 55th Street Theater, is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival concert hall located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City....
 and at the Jacob's Pillow
Jacob's Pillow

Jacob?s Pillow is a National Historic Landmark located in the town of Becket, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. The organization encompasses an internationally acclaimed summer dance festival , a professional school, extensive archives, an intern program, and year-round community programs....
 Dance Festival.

In October 2007, PNB dancers Noelani Pantastico
Noelani Pantastico

Noelani Pantastico is a ballet dancer with Les Ballets de Monte Carlo in Monaco. She was born on the island of Oahu, Hawaii....
, Lindsi Dec, and Benjamin Griffiths, along with Pantastico's husband Brady Hartley, created the website . The website functions as a "more in-depth, behind the scenes perspective of the lives of PNB dancers and the necessary steps to creating a successful performance." The website includes dancers' personal thoughts on upcoming performances, links to dancers' personal websites, photo albums, interviews, and an "A Day in the Life" of a PNB dancer. It further includes a "Director's Blog" written by Boal discussing his role as artistic director.

Dancers


2007-2008 Season

Principals




  • Batkhurel Bold
  • Carrie Imler
  • Carla Körbes
    New York City Ballet

    New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin and with founding choreographers Balanchine and Jerome Robbins....
  • Ariana Lallone


  • Stanko Milov
  • Louise Nadeau
  • Kaori Nakamura
  • Jonathan Porretta


  • Lucien Postlewaite
  • Jeffrey Stanton
  • Mara Vinson
  • Miranda Weese
    New York City Ballet

    New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin and with founding choreographers Balanchine and Jerome Robbins....
  • Olivier Wevers

Soloists




  • Maria Chapman


  • Karel Cruz
  • Chalnessa Eames


  • Lesley Rausch
  • Jodie Thomas

Corps de Ballet




  • Jessika Anspach
  • Alison Basford
  • Kari Brunson
  • Lindsi Dec
  • Adrienne Diaz
  • Leanne Duge
  • Rachel Foster
  • Kiyon Gaines


  • Laura Gilbreath
  • Benjamin Griffiths
  • Rebecca Johnston
  • Barry Kerollis
  • Kylee Kitchens
  • Stacy Lowenberg
  • James Moore
  • Sarah Orza


  • Seth Orza
  • Jordan Pacitti
  • Anton Pankevitch
  • Brittany Reid
  • Sokvanna Sar
  • Josh Spell
  • Jerome Tisserand
  • Kara Zimmerman

Apprentices




  • Liora Reshef


  • Leah O'Connor

Reviews







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