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Singularly Cerrudo at PNB in Person (and Online)

Friday, September 24, 2021 may not go down in the history books as anything special, but it was a momentous occasion for me. It was my first night out since the pandemic started. The last time I attended a public event was Charlie Parker’s Yardbird at Seattle Opera on March 7, 2020, just days before the first lockdown. Under those circumstances, the experience itself would threaten to upstage whatever performance I went to see. Except that I saw the Singularly Cerrudo program at Pacific Northwest Ballet. And nothing upstages Cerrudo.

Ezra Thomson with company dancers in Alejandro Cerrudo’s Little mortal jump, which PNB will Photo © Angela Sterling c/o PNB
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1000 Pieces at Pacific Northwest Ballet

Jerome Tisserand in David Dawson’s Empire Noir, DIRECTOR’S CHOICE 2017. Photo © Angela Sterling c/o PNB

Little did I suspect when I watched the final performance of Yardbird at Seattle Opera that it would be the last performance anyone saw at McCaw Hall for the foreseeable future. Like many others, I had tickets to see Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new program 1000 Pieces the following weekend. But two days before the program was to premiere, the governor shut down all large gatherings. In the midst of pandemic, it was a minor tragedy, but it wasn’t a total loss. In fact, it turned into a special event, the memory of which I will both cherish and grieve.

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