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PNB’s Digital Season Rep 6

The sixth program of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s digital season is here. It’s a mixed program with three filmed performances of ballets that are new to PNB. Two of them are world premieres. Rep 6 is the final program of the regular season. Not that there has been anything regular about this season, with McCaw Hall closed to the public and everything produced for film. But it has been a wonderful season nonetheless, filled with beautiful performances of exquisite ballets. So far I’ve enjoyed everything so much more than I expected. So, in their bold leap into digital production, did PNB stick the landing with their final program?

Lindsay Thomas photo c/o PNB
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PNB’s Digital Season Rep 4

Promotional Poster for PNB Rep 4

The fourth program of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s digital season, appropriately titled Rep 4 – launched? opened? posted? Premiered? – on Thursday, but I couldn’t watch it until Friday. It’s only available until Monday. So since time is short, I’ll try to keep my comments short. Rep 4 is a mixed rep program comprising world premieres by two of my favorite choreographers, and archival video of a third piece that PNB performed in 2017. I have mixed feelings about it.

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The Intermission Project at PNB

As if I needed another reason to love my favorite local arts institutions, the way groups like Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet have responded to the pandemic has been amazing. Not only have they managed to survive without their normal revenue streams in a time when live theater performances are banned, but they have produced new, creative work that would not have been possible – even conceivable – in normal times. The most recent example is Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Intermission Project, a midseason collection of short filmed ballets.

Screenshots from Price Suddarth’s The Intermission Project:
Jerome Tisserand in Part 1, Seth Orza in Part 2, Emma Love Suddarth and Price Suddarth in Part 3, James Yoichi Moore in Part 4, Noelani Pantastico in Part 5, Sarah Pasch in Part 6, Leta Biasucci in Part 7, Angelica Generosa and Joshua Grant in Part 9, and Leah Terada and Miles Pertl in Part 9. All screenshots courtesy of Price Suddarth.
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Romeo et Juliette From PNB at Home

If true love is the one that makes you throw away your own rules, it must hold true for art as well as relationships. Story ballets are supposed to be the easy one to get into, but to be honest, they’ve never really been my thing. And yet, Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Romeo et Juliette is one of my favorite ballets and one of my favorite adaptations of the Bard’s much misunderstood tragedy.

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ALICE

Chapter One. Down the Rabbit Hole. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting and of having nothing to do.

That’s the very familiar beginning to a very new artwork. Because while many of us have been sitting around with nothing to do most of this year, local dancers have been hard at work. Seattle Dance Collective and Pacific Northwest Ballet have both created some of my favorite dances during the pandemic, and last week they added one more: ALICE.

Bruno Roque photo c/o SDC
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