Tag Archive West Side Story

ByGD

Jerome Robbins Festival Program A

Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers in Jerome Robbins’ In the Night, which PNB is presenting as part of a two-part Robbins Festival to kick off its 2018-2019 season, September 21 – 29, 2018. Photo © Angela Sterling.

PNB dancers in Jerome Robbins’ In the Night Photo © Angela Sterling.

This year PNB is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Jerome Robbins’ birth with a Jerome Robbins Festival. Artistic Director Peter Boal created two separate programs using seven of the twelve Robbins’ pieces in the PNB repertory. Tickets for the two programs are sold separately. I recommend seeing both, but it’s a lot of ballet to take in all at once. So what if you can only make it to one? Here is my take on Jerome Robbins Festival Program A. Read More

ByGD

Pacific Northwest Ballet Season Encore

Pacific Northwest Ballet corps de ballet dancers Amanda Morgan and Sarah Pasch with company dancers in Diamonds from Jewels, choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. PNB is presenting Jewels, with new sets and costumes designed by Jerome Kaplan, September 22 – October 1, 2017. Photo © Angela Sterling.

Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers Amanda Morgan and Sarah Pasch with company dancers in Diamonds from Jewels, 2017. Photo © Angela Sterling.

This is the first season that I’ve attended any of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “extra” events – like performance previews, lectures, and now the Season Encore performance. Although it’s called a season encore, it’s not just a highlights reel of the past season. As I wrote yesterday, it’s also a farewell to departing dancers. In fact, several pieces performed at Season Encore were not even from the last season.

Read More