New Works Marion Oliver McCaw Hall Seattle, WA March 16–24, 2012 Performance reviewed: March 17 Continuing its adventurous programming, Pacific Northwest Ballet brought three young international choreographers to Seattle. In A Million Kisses to My Skin, British choreographer David Dawson celebrates the athletic prowess and exuberant spirit of its nine dancers—not to mention the upbeat […]
The Better Half This month, three dancers from Lucky Plush Productions and two performers from physical theater company 500 Clown band together for a performance of Julia Rhoads ( a 2010 “25 to Watch”) and Leslie Buxbaum Danzig’s The Better Half. This evocative new LPP work is based on George Cukor’s 1944 melodrama Gaslight, which […]
Herman Cornejo and Misa Kuranaga rehearse Giselle at the 2010 VIDF. Photo by Erin Baiano, Courtesy VIDF. The outdoor amphitheater of the Vail International Dance Festival, with the Rocky Mountains as backdrop, holds a special magic. “It’s even more beautiful than the photos,” says Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Carla Körbes, who will perform at […]
Marion Oliver McCaw Hall Seattle, WA June 3–12, 2011 Carla Körbes as Giselle and Karel Cruz as Albrecht in PNB’s world premiere staging of Giselle. Photo ©Angela Sterling, courtesy PNB. Pacific Northwest Ballet’s renovated Giselle is an intriguing restoration that brings the ballet closer to what 19th- and early 20th-century audiences might have seen. Staged by […]
Retirements For 17 years at Pacific Northwest Ballet, principal Jeffrey Stanton was the go-to dancer for anything jazzy, like Susan Stroman’s showy TAKE FIVE…More or Less or Kent Stowell’s Silver Lining. At PNB, and for five years prior to that at San Francisco Ballet, Stanton’s range was impressive—from the debonair hero of […]
At the Finnish Line Both local and international companies make their debuts at the 42nd annual Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland. Performers range from the Korean Byuk-Pah Dance Research Society to the Belgian Compagnie Thor, from Finnish contemporary folk dance troupe Rimpparemmi to the American companies Ailey II and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. The weeklong […]
Watching from the wings—it’s what all dancers do. But seen through a photographer’s lens, that perspective can provide an unexpected bit of poetry. The camera can catch the underside of the choreography, revealing a completely different angle from what the audience sees. Rose Eichenbaum takes us to that vantage point in her […]
When you’re up close to dancers, as in the Guggenheim Works & Process series, you notice faces. Last night, PNB’s Carla Körbes and James Moore had such changeable faces that I immediately felt drawn to their dancing. I’ve loved Carla’s dancing in the past.(click to read our cover story) But I’m not as familiar with […]
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