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PNB dancer Leta Biasucci (center), soprano Christina Siemens, and company in A Dark and Lonely Space. Photo © Angela Sterling c/o PNB.
All Premiere is the second program of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 2018-2019 season. Like Director’s Choice, you can count on All Premiere to feature some of the most interesting and innovative contemporary ballet available. This year started out with a (big) bang: Kyle Davis’ A Dark and Lonely Space.
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PNB dancers Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan and Christian Poppe in Alexander Ekman’s Cacti Photo © Angela Sterling c/o PNB
All Premiere is the second program of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 2018-2019 season. In contrast to the Jerome Robbins Festival, which was a unique sort of double feature, All Premiere is an annual tradition at PNB. Every year, PNB does one program of all new ballets. Sometimes they are literally brand new, and sometimes they are just new to PNB. Usually there’s some of both. Like Director’s Choice, you can count on All Premiere to feature some of the most interesting and innovative contemporary ballet available. This year was no exception in being exceptionally good. Read More
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PNB company dancers in Yuri Possokhov’s RAkU, 2018. Photo © Angela Sterling.
Not gonna lie. I didn’t really like RakU, the ballet that premiered in Seattle as part of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Emergence program last week. Despite absolutely loving some elements, there were a couple things I just don’t think audiences should tolerate. Even so, I keep turning the piece over in my mind, worrying at it like a splinter that won’t come out. There’s just so much to say about RakU. Read More