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Pacific Northwest Ballet Completes My Cinderella Season

Angela Sterling photo c/o PNB

Fairy tales, by definition, are timeless. And yet they also seem to have their moments. This year, Cinderella seems to be having hers. I’m not sure what it is about Cinderella that makes it more important to people right now than Snow White or Sleeping Beauty. But I have seen three different adaptations of Cinderella this season across three different art forms. The Cinderella season concluded for me last weekend at opening night of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Cinderella by Kent Stowell.

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Carmina Burana at Pacific Northwest Ballet

PNB dancers and the Pacific Lutheran University Choral Union in Kent Stowell’s Carmina Burana. Photo © Angela Sterling c/o PNB.

Pacific Northwest Ballet is starting the season with a powerful pair of 20th century ballets: George Balanchine’s Agon and Kent Stowell’s Carmina Burana. In many ways, Agon is the better ballet, but Carmina Burana is the audience favorite. It’s only natural – Carmina Burana is an irresistible combination of passion and spectacle.

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Power Couple: Agon and Carmina Burana at Pacific Northwest Ballet

PNB dancers and the Pacific Lutheran University Choral Union in Kent Stowell’s Carmina Burana. Photo © Angela Sterling c/o PNB.

Pacific Northwest Ballet is starting their 2019/2020 season (their 47th, for anyone keeping track) with a powerful pair of 20th century ballets: George Balanchine’s Agon and Kent Stowell’s Carmina Burana. Both ballets had their PNB premiere in 1993 (the same year I started attending regularly) but otherwise, they could hardly be more different.

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