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Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. 2 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET Kent Stowell and Peter Boal June 1–10, 2018 Francia Russell Artistic Director Marion Oliver McCaw Hall Founding Artistic Directors PRINCIPALS Karel Cruz Lindsi Dec Rachel Foster Benjamin Griffiths William Lin-Yee James Moore Elizabeth Murphy Sarah Ricard Orza Seth Orza Noelani Pantastico Jonathan Porretta Lucien Postlewaite Lesley Rausch Jerome Tisserand Laura Tisserand SOLOISTS Leta Biasucci Kyle Davis Angelica Generosa Joshua Grant Steven Loch Leah Merchant Margaret Mullin Matthew Renko Price Suddarth Ezra Thomson CORPS de BALLET Madison Rayn Abeo Guillaume Basso Ryan Cardea Nancy Casciano Henry Cotton Dammiel Cruz Cecilia Iliesiu Elle Macy Angeli Mamon Amanda Morgan Sarah Pasch Miles Pertl Christian Poppe Nicole Rizzitano Calista Ruat Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan Carli Samuelson Emma Love Suddarth Madison Taylor Leah Terada Dylan Wald Apprentices Christopher D’Ariano Clara Ruf Maldonado Genevieve Waldorf Emil de Cou Music Director/Principal Conductor Allan Dameron Company Pianist/Conductor Otto Neubert, Anne Dabrowski, Paul Gibson Ballet Masters Norbert Herriges Technical Director Randall G. Chiarelli Resident Lighting Designer Larae Theige Hascall Costume Shop Manager Christina Siemens Company Pianist SEASON SPONSORS: SEASON-LONG SPONSOR: MAJOR SPONSORS: Cover: Angelica Generosa in Justin Peck's Year of the Rabbit. © Angela Sterling. 2017-2018 PNB BOARD OF TRUSTEES From the President From the Sponsor OFFICERS Chairman – David Hadley 3 Dear Friends, That feeling, shared President – Joan Fitzmaurice between two people, Treasurer – Maria Mackey Gunn Welcome to LOVE that’s called “love”— Secretary – Lynn Lindsay & BALLET at Pacific Assistant Secretary – Lynne Graybeal sometimes a slow Northwest Ballet! Assistant Secretary – H. David Kaplan rising burn, Immediate Past Chairman – Aya Hamilton 2 3 Our production 2 3 sometimes a furious Chairman Emeritus – Sheffield Phelps * today includes the conflagration—is one return of four of COMMITTEE CHAIRS of the more Education – Jon Conte PNB’s repertory inexplicable and Board Development – Gail James works: Christopher Marketing & Public Relations – Sara Jones ineffable aspects of being human. Why are we 2 3 Wheeldon’s Tide Harmonic and After the Leadership – Peter Horvitz drawn to certain people but not others? How Major Gifts – Peter Horvitz 2 3 Rain pas de deux, Benjamin Millepied’s 2 3 do all the components of attraction (physical Foundation Board Chairman - Peter Horvitz Appassionata, and Justin Peck’s Year of the appearance, personality, worldly success, Rabbit. We are grateful for all of the generous EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES shared experiences, having tastes and interests Artistic Director – Peter Boal1 donors whose meaningful investments in 1 in common, interlocking emotional baggage, Executive Director – Ellen Walker PNB’s New Works Initiative have brought Young Patrons Circle – Andrew Hoge 1 and ever so much else) combine or combust? Parents Association – Jennifer Gaines 1 commissions and acquisitions such as these 1 Why did you choose to marry your current PNB STARS – Terri Richardson to the McCaw Hall stage and on tour. spouse, and not that person you were so Two of the works featured in LOVE & GOVERNING BOARD OF TRUSTEES madly in love with back in your freshman year Donna Barnett Carol Neiman BALLET are among the signature pieces 2 of college? (Gee, that person was wonderful. Carl Behnke Susan Okamoto that PNB will perform in Paris at Les Étés Susan Brotman 2 Alida Oles I haven’t thought about that person in years. de la Danse festival occurring June 25-July Jane Cremin Gwendolyn C. Payton I wonder what that person is doing these Sharon Falkner Betty Pirnat 7, 2018. This two-week festival will involve days…I wonder if I can use Facebook without Jerald Farley Mac Powell a week-long celebration of Jerome Robbins’ Stephen E. Fuhs Tom A. Puentes anyone around me noticing…) centenary with PNB performing Opus 19/ Robin F. Gainey James Raisbeck The pas de deux, a dance for two, has Susan Grinstein Barbara Ries The Dreamer alongside performances by always been ballet’s central expression of William Grinstein Catherine Ries Joffrey Ballet, Miami City Ballet, New York W. Daniel Heidt 2 Vivian Schwab romantic love. The two dancers—historically City Ballet, and Perm Opera Ballet Theatre. Kalen Holmes Elizabeth Stokes a man and a woman, but I suspect we’ll see Toni Hoover Shannon Tierney The second festival week will showcase more men dancing with men and women Christy Jones Aimee Truchard PNB in two programs of eight works that April Kieburtz Natasha Lalji Verjee dancing with women as the ballet world all debuted as part of PNB’s New Works Dan Kingston Connie Walsh more freely reflects the world we live in— Wendy Kizzier Sheree Wen Initiative. Forty-four dancers and thirty-five Alex Lange Jodi Wong don’t usually kiss or hug or hold hands. artistic and administrative staff will travel to Terrel Lefferts Leslie Yamada Instead, their emotions are expressed head Frederick W. McDonald the City of Lights for PNB’s first trip abroad to toe, through leaps and lifts and whirls, since 2012. ADVISORY BOARD OF TRUSTEES through shapes and twists and bends Using Les Étés de la Danse festival as a Nancy D. Alvord* Rocke Koreis that most people couldn’t begin to do, Mariana Ancira Gregory Kusnick launching point, PNB’s next season will open yet which articulate the leaps and whirls Courtney Bear Candy J. Lee on September 21 with a Jerome Robbins Elisabeth Bodal Helene Mawyer and twists that happen within everyone Festival, two weeks of alternating programs Sue Buske Arnold Ness when we’re around someone we love. Barbara Chaplin Kristin Pastoriza featuring seven iconic Robbins works. This LOVE & BALLET will no doubt be more Cheryl Clark Mimi Richards unique performance schedule is designed to Brooke de Boutray Michael Righi than a series of pas de deux, but I suspect give audiences the opportunity to immerse Margaret Dell’Osso Alesha Shemwell there will be plenty of them, in dazzling Elizabeth Dougherty Mel Sturman themselves in the genius of Jerome Robbins. variations. Patricia Edwards Peggy Swistak We hope you will join us for another year of Becky Figueroa Christina Tanner As ever, 4Culture is proud to support Kathy Alvord Gerlich Jennifer Thompson spectacular ballet. Stacy Graves Russell Wagstaff Pacific Northwest Ballet. 4Culture CathyBeth Hooper Lisa Wahbe commends and admires all the artists, Thank you for supporting Pacific Northwest Pamela Johnson Stephanie Wallach technicians, and administrators of this Glenn Kawasaki Kathryn Wickham Ballet, and enjoy the performance! Megan Kirley remarkable institution. Warm regards, TRUSTEES EMERITI Enjoy! Norma Cugini* Jane McConnell Jane M. Davis* Joe Norman 3 Wendy Griffin 2 Rick Redman Cathi Hatch 2 Francia Russell Travis Keeler 3 Kent Stowell David Hadley, Chairman 2 Arthur H. Mazzola Carol Wright PNB Board of Trustees BOARD OF TRUSTEES LIFE FELLOWS Patty Barrier Dr. Susan Lindsay Kay Baxter Maria Postnikoff-Downing Jim Kelly Robert R. Braun, Jr. Marsha Rich Ingham Ron Elgin Sharon Richardson Former Executive Director, 4Culture James A. Elias Susan R. Richey Don C. Franklin Cynthia Stroum David F. Hill 3 Linda Warson Catherine Hobi Hawes David B. Winder 2 3 John Iverson 2 * Linda Wyman Jim Judson* ¹Advisory/Ex Officio ² Past Chairs 3 Past Presidents *Deceased encoremediagroup.com/programs 5 DIRECTOR’S This is a monumental shift for the art form. To me, it opens “important new avenues for dialogue and reflection...It puts another question on the table: what do you expect from ballet? ” © nycdanceproject.com i recently attended san francisco Perhaps the most notable trend was the contribution to the Unbound Festival. Ballet’s Unbound Festival. The company employment of new subject matter. No After the Rain, a ground-breaking piece presented a staggering 12 world premieres swans and princes here. Subjects included when unveiled in New York over a decade along with a series of symposiums and isolation and teen suicide, discrimination ago, casts a spell, melding broken lines panel discussions on where ballet is today, and homosexuality, the loss of a loved one, and origami-like poses into unexpected who will guide it tomorrow, and what Picasso and the Spanish Civil war, and the fluidity. Benjamin Millepied’s Appassionata trends we can identify. The festival was tangled torture of the three protagonists explores intimacy and attachment. Originally broad in scope and inspiring in execution, from Ethan Frome. created two years ago for the Paris Opera and audiences came away impressed. Dance is now weighing in on the world Ballet, we have the pleasure of bringing this Some works were more successful than around us and on subjects that previously great work back to Paris this summer. Year others, but in the end there was much to went undiscussed. Recently, Crystal Pite of the Rabbit was Justin Peck’s first piece admire and process.