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Sleeping Beauty at Pacific Northwest Ballet 2014

sleeping beauty bookletThis last week my life has taken the work/life balance conflict to new levels. I am up against a hard deadline on a major project at the day job. Meanwhile my building was on lockdown with half a million people expressing their love for the Seahawks on the street outside. Last weekend my family passed a major milestone – all four of us rode the lift and came down the mountain together. And on Saturday, my youngest daughter and I caught the matinee of Pacific Northwest Ballet‘s production, The Sleeping Beauty. It’s a true classic, rich in symbolism and full of an entirely different, more graceful kind of balance. Read More

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Kylian + Pite Redefine Ballet

kylian pite booklet coverI hardly know where to begin talking about Pacific Northwest Ballet’s latest rep, Kylian + Pite, but I’m afraid that once I start, I won’t be able to stop. Like my recent experience with Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm at Decibel Festival, this performance forced me to reconsider the very definition of one my favorite art forms.

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