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Cupcakes & Conversation with Ty King-Wall, Principal, The Australian Ballet What motivates you at 8am on a Monday morning ? Absolutely nothing! I get up at 8.30am….Not a morning person! If ballet chose you, as many dancers say it did, what is it that has made you stick with it ? Insanity, and a certain level [...]

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PRESENTS Director’s Choice A Tribute to George Balanchine Featuring Agon, Diamonds, and a World Premiere by Christopher Wheeldon   May 31-June 9, 2013 Marion Oliver McCaw Hall 321 Mercer Street, Seattle Center Seattle, WA 98109   7:30 pm on May 31, June 1, 6, 7 and 8 Matinees on June 1 at [...]

Cupcakes & Conversation with Ashley Laracey, Soloist, New York City Ballet What motivates you at 8 a.m. on a Tuesday morning?  The alarm rings at 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday morning. A few minutes prior to the alarm, our automatic coffee pot begins brewing our favorite Whole Foods blend. The smell of coffee motivates me to get [...]

The Royal Ballet’s Olivia Cowley | Pointe Shoes & Plasters There is nothing remotely glamorous about being a professional ballet dancer. As Olivia Cowley, a dancer in her 10th season with The Royal Ballet tells me, “people think it’s blisters but actually it’s not. It’s the nails, the bed of the nails, no matter how [...]

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PRESENTS Director’s Choice                           Featuring two works by GEORGE BALANCHINE   And a world premiere by CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON   May 31-June 9, 2013 Marion Oliver McCaw Hall 321 Mercer Street, Seattle Center Seattle, WA 98109   7:30 pm on May [...]

THE ROYAL BALLET SUMMER SEASON MAY – JUNE 2013 RAVEN GIRL / SYMPHONY IN C Wayne McGregor / George Balanchine Conductor: Koen Kessels / Georges Bizet   Evening Performances at 7.30pm: Friday 24, Tuesday 28, Wednesday 29 May, Monday 3 June, Saturday 8 June Matinee performances: Wednesday 29 May 2pm, Saturday 8 June 1.30pm Raven [...]

The Royal Ballet announces 2013/14 season Today saw the launch of Artistic Director Kevin O’Hare’s second season at The Royal Ballet, and he was characteristically understated but also quietly confident that as his first season is going very well - the company is selling almost all of the tickets it offers - and is excited about the new season. Has [...]

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PRESENTS MODERN MASTERPIECES Featuring works by George Balanchine – Ulysses Dove – Twyla Tharp Plus a world premiere by Paul Gibson   March 15 – 24, 2013 Marion Oliver McCaw Hall 321 Mercer Street, Seattle Center Seattle, WA 98109   7:30 pm on March 15, 16, 21, 22 and 23 Matinees on [...]

Casting Announced for Pacific Northwest Ballet at New York City Center, February 13 – 16       First Full-Company NY Performances Since 1996   New York, NY, January 28, 2013 – New York City Center will present Pacific Northwest Ballet in its first full-company performance in NYC since 1996, February 13–16, 2013. PNB, celebrating [...]

Dutch National Ballet announce Best of Balanchine * Three faces of a choreographic genius * programme to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of his death * première 7 February 2013 at The Amsterdam Music Theatre * performances until 1 March 2013 in Amsterdam, Groningen, Zwolle, The Hague, Heerlen, Utrecht, Breda and Enschede George Balanchine (1904-1983) was the [...]

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PRESENTS Modern masterpieces Featuring works by George Balanchine – Ulysses Dove – Twyla Tharp Plus a world premiere by Paul Gibson   March 15 – 24, 2013 Marion Oliver McCaw Hall 321 Mercer Street, Seattle Center Seattle, WA 98109   March 15 & 16 at 7:30 pm March 16 at 2:00 pm [...]

The Royal Ballet’s Liam Scarlett choreographs again for Miami City Ballet Liam Scarlett recently became The Royal Ballet’s Artist in Residence and is now choreographing full time. He’s in demand the world over and has recently premiered a new work for Miami City Ballet called Euphotic. Rehearsal footage shows Scarlett talking about the piece and how hard the [...]

Dancers of The Royal Ballet – A Photographic Exhibition Now Is All There Is – Bodies in Motion is an exhibition of 34 stylised images of Royal Ballet dancers taken by photographer Rick Guest. Celebrating the physicality and expression of the dancers’ bodies, this exhibition captures them in a different light away from the Royal [...]

Pacific Northwest Ballet receives NEA grant to support DIRECTOR’S CHOICE   Grant one of 832 Art Works grants totaling $23.3 million in funding nationwide   SEATTLE, WA — National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced yesterday that Pacific Northwest Ballet is one of 832 non-profit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art [...]

Ballet PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET BY HENRY LEUTWYLER 488-Page Hardcover Book Features Nearly 300 Photographs New York City’s Foley Gallery to Exhibit Photographs from Ballet November 28, 2012 through January 6, 2013 Ballet, Photographs of the New York City Ballet, is a book by Henry Leutwyler that is the culmination of four years [...]

The Hong Kong Ballet | An International Celebration of Ballet Superstar choreographer Nacho Duato visits Hong Kong; classic French love story Lady of the Camellias re-told in A Ballet Soirée The Hong Kong Ballet is delighted to announce that Nacho Duato, one of the most famous and influential choreographers in the world today, will be [...]

NEW YORK CITY CENTER PRESENTS PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET First Full-Company New York Performances Since 1996 -Accompanied by the PNB Orchestra- Season Features a Balanchine Mixed Bill and Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette February 13–16, 2013   New York, NY, September 27, 2012 –New York City Center will present Pacific Northwest Ballet in its first full-company [...]

The Hong Kong Ballet presents: A Ballet Soirée 6 acclaimed works from international choreographers, 1 Asian Première & 1 World Première starring Guest Principal Dancer Tan Yuan Yuan and Vito Mazzeo from San Francisco Ballet The Hong Kong Ballet’s mixed bill, A Ballet Soirée, brings you a once-in-a-lifetime ballet experience – Artistic Director Madeleine Onne [...]

GLORIA GOVRIN TO TAPE VIDEO SERIES FOR THE GEORGE BALANCHINE FOUNDATION   Longtime New York City Ballet soloist to teach and coach three major solos choreographed on her by Balanchine New York City—Gloria Govrin danced with New York City Ballet from 1959 to 1974 and was promoted to soloist in 1963.  An unusually tall dancer, she inspired [...]

Cupcakes & Conversation with Sarah Van Patten, Principal, San Francisco Ballet What motivates you at 8am on a Monday morning? If Monday is the start of a new ballet then it’s always exciting to see what will be created. I love seeing what can evolve from nothing. I’m also always excited, not only by the [...]