Rehearsal is in full swing, and Leta Biasucci, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s newest principal dancer, finds herself in unfamiliar territory. Biasucci is always game for a challenge, but choreographer Kyle Davis wants her to lift fellow dancer Clara Ruf Maldonado. Repeatedly. While she’s known for her technical prowess, lifting another dancer off the floor is a […]

Most dancers are familiar with this story: You get that first company contract, and figure that you just have to show everyone—your director especially—how special, reliable and talented you are, and your career will be everything you dreamed it to be. But what happens when casting goes up and your name’s fourth cast or worse—not […]