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Kent Stowell and Peter Boal September 22-October 1, 2017 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 Leah Merchant Margaret Mullin Matthew Renko Ezra Thomson

CORPS de BALLET

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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

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Jewels images throughout reflect choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. Cover: Rachel Foster inRubies . © Angela Sterling.

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4 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET EAP 1_3 S template.indd 1 8/4/17 4:35 PM 2017-2018 PNB BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS Chairman – David Hadley 3 President – Joan Fitzmaurice Treasurer – Maria Mackey Gunn In Memoriam Secretary – Lynn Lindsay Assistant Secretary – Lynne Graybeal Immediate Past Chairman – Aya Hamilton 2 3 Pacific Northwest Ballet dedicates the opening Chairman Emeritus – Sheffield Phelps2 3 * night performance of George Balanchine’s Jewels COMMITTEE CHAIRS Education – Jon Conte to the memory of Jeffrey Hart Brotman. Board Development – Gail James Marketing & Public Relations – Sara Jones Leadership – Peter Horvitz 2 3 Major Gifts – Peter Horvitz 2 3 this past august, our community lost one of Foundation Board Chairman - Peter Horvitz 2 3 our greatest supporters, advocates, and champions EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES with the untimely passing of Jeff Brotman. Artistic Director – Peter Boal1 Jeff and Susan Brotman have affected and Executive Director – Ellen Walker1 Young Patrons Circle – Andrew Hoge 1 enhanced every aspect of our institution through Parents Association – Jennifer Gaines 1 leadership, philanthropy, and friendship. Their PNB STARS – Terri Richardson 1 support of our School, Endowment, touring, and GOVERNING BOARD OF TRUSTEES New Works Initiative has been transformative for Donna Barnett Frederick W. McDonald Carl Behnke 2 Carol Neiman PNB. During the current season, we will present Susan Brotman 2 Susan Okamoto six works sponsored by the Brotmans. Jeff and Susan have helped fulfill Jane Cremin Alida Oles Sharon Falkner Gwendolyn C. Payton artistic vision and create financial stability for our future. Their selfless Jerald Farley Betty Pirnat Stephen E. Fuhs Mac Powell generosity spreads far beyond PNB, profoundly affecting medical Robin F. Gainey Tom A. Puentes research, arts, culture, and education throughout our community. Susan Grinstein James Raisbeck William Grinstein Barbara Ries For all of Jeff’s accomplishments, he will be remembered most for his W. Daniel Heidt 2 Catherine Ries unwavering devotion to family, friends, and community. Thank you, Jeff, Kalen Holmes Vivian Schwab Toni Hoover Elizabeth Stokes for enhancing our lives and inspiring us to follow your example. Christy Jones Shannon Tierney H. David Kaplan Aimee Truchard On behalf of Peter Boal and the Artists and Staff of April Kieburtz Natasha Lalji Verjee Dan Kingston Connie Walsh Pacific NorthwestBallet Wendy Kizzier Sheree Wen Lisa Kroese Jodi Wong Alex Lange Leslie Yamada

ADVISORY BOARD OF TRUSTEES Nancy D. Alvord Rocke Koreis Courtney Bear Gregory Kusnick Elisabeth Bodal Candy J. Lee Sue Buske Helene Mawyer From The Chairman Barbara Chaplin Arnold Ness Cheryl Clark Kristin Pastoriza Brooke de Boutray Mimi Richards Dear Friends, Margaret Dell’Osso Michael Righi Elizabeth Dougherty John Shaw I am thrilled to welcome you back to McCaw Hall for Pacific Patricia Edwards Alesha Shemwell Becky Figueroa Mel Sturman Northwest Ballet’s momentous 2017-2018 season! Artistic Director Kathy Alvord Gerlich Peggy Swistak Peter Boal has called this the season of “PNB’s greatest hits,” and I Stacy Graves Christina Tanner CathyBeth Hooper Jennifer Thompson couldn’t agree more. From classic masterpieces like Kent Stowell’s Pamela Johnson Russell Wagstaff Swan Lake to Crystal Pite’s riveting Emergence, the season’s lineup Glenn Kawasaki Lisa Wahbe Megan Kirley Stephanie Wallach highlights the versatility of our Company dancers. And, as Ezra Thomson’s world premiere will show us in March, TRUSTEES EMERITI Norma Cugini* Jane McConnell they do more than dance! We are proud to invest in our dancers beyond their performances Jane M. Davis Joe Norman 3 onstage and lucky to have rising PNB choreographers right here in our own studios. Wendy Griffin2 Rick Redman Cathi Hatch ² Francia Russell I also want to share next summer’s plans with you. PNB is honored to have been invited Travis Keeler 3 Kent Stowell to participate at the festival Les Étés de la Danse in Paris in late June and early July 2018; Arthur H. Mazzola 2 Carol Wright the Company will perform many of the ballets you’ll see this season. Be on the lookout for BOARD OF TRUSTEES LIFE FELLOWS more news about this benchmark tour in the next few months. Patty Barrier Dr. Susan Lindsay Kay Baxter Maria Postnikoff-Downing I hope you enjoy our freshly designed Jewels. Balanchine’s transcendent showcase for Robert R. Braun, Jr. Marsha Rich Ingham dancers is just as breathtaking now as it was when it premiered fifty years ago. With Jerome Ron Elgin Sharon Richardson James A. Elias Susan R. Richey Kaplan’s reimagined scenery and costumes, this Jewels is nothing short of magnificent. Don C. Franklin Cynthia Stroum Thank you for joining us today. We hope you’ll be back for more performances David F. Hill 3 Linda Warson Catherine Hobi Hawes David B. Winder 2 3 throughout the season, and perhaps we’ll see you in France next summer! John Iverson 3 * Linda Wyman Jim Judson Warmest regards,

3 ¹Advisory/Ex Officio ² Past Chairs Past Presidents *Deceased David Hadley, Chairman, Pacific Northwest Ballet

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Go ahead, gasp. Long before you gasp, we plan. As you “might imagine, there is quite a bit of business going on behind the scenes. ” © nycdanceproject.com

sometimes, just after the curtain department solicits and coordinates this contributes a small amount to the bottom rises, a soft collective “ahhh” and effort with help from board leadership. line with its own $4.8 million annual a smattering of applause are heard We are still working to complete funding budget, sustained by tuition, Summer throughout the audience. That’s when for our New Works Initiative this year. Course dorm and audition tour revenue, the magic begins. I suspect we’ll hear a If you want to know about contributing and support from individuals, foundations, few “ahhhs” during the run of George to New Works, start with our website. corporations, and government. Fundraising Balanchine’s Jewels. Jerome Kaplan’s Small gifts matter and they open a brings in between $6 and $8 million per new designs for tutus, tiaras, tunics, door to a greater understanding and year, depending on individual campaigns. and scenics are stunning. Bringing appreciation of the art form you admire. A few more pots like Amusements, our those designs to life is a team of More business. Most of our fundraising audience education program, and rentals artisans unmatched in their ability. is directed to our Annual Fund, which for studios, productions, and costumes Go ahead, gasp. Long before you gasp, pays for employee salaries and general help us break even. We often post small we plan. As you might imagine, there is operations for our institution, which surpluses and count every dollar to do so. quite a bit of business going on behind currently has a $25 million annual It’s like a complex ecosystem with many the scenes. In 700 words or less, I intend operating budget. We employ close to 50 essential and unseen factors contributing to introduce you to some of the nuts dancers, 3 ballet masters, 60 musicians, 30 to the wonder of performance. Tiaras may and bolts that make magic possible. faculty members, 14 in-school teaching grace the stage, but they don’t fall from the We have our own costume shop and artists, 30 accompanists, 1 drummer, 12 in sky. It takes the vision of a great designer, wardrobe department with about a dozen costume and wardrobe, a team of backstage the artists required for the build, and employees who work for us year round. dressers, hair, and make-up artists, 7 in the the funding necessary to pay for it. Once Much praise goes to Larae Theige Hascall box office, 6 in scenic, 2 stage managers, complete, we need an exquisite ballerina for her calm and effective management of 11 Pilates instructors, a wellness team in a beautiful hall, complete with ushers, our shop. A build like Jewels requires more of another 7, plus a staff of about 50. We dressers, musicians, stage hands, and you. Thanks for being part of the magic. than a dozen, so we added seven employees. operate out of five buildings: McCaw Hall, We also partnered with Mark Zappone, the neighboring Phelps Center, the new who established his own shop called Z Francia Russell Center in Bellevue, our Studio. Mark and his team of another scene shop in Fremont, and our storage dozen or so built costumes for Rubies and facility in Tukwila—each with its own Peter Boal all of the men’s costumes for Emeralds lease and rent. Add in our pointe shoe and Diamonds. Our scenic designers bill, which runs about $260,000 a season, and painters created the massive silver and you see how we get to $25 million. New Audience patina frame you will see in Diamonds. PNB has a well-deserved reputation Technical Director Norbert Herriges leads for fiscal prudence. Executive Director Education program our team of builders and craftsman. Most Ellen Walker and our board of trustees BALLET 101 work for PNB year round, but painters oversee an endowment of approximately A new series exploring a range of topics, are project-based. Rico Chiarelli, a true $16 million and a stabilization fund of about from ballet terminology, steps, and magician, brings beauty and mood to $2 million. Our endowment contributes partnering to casting, contemporary the stage through his lighting design. 4.75% to our annual operating budget. works, and the business of ballet. So what does all this cost? The build Ticket sales provide the lion’s share Three sessions remaining: of Jewels alone is close to half a million. of our revenue, with between 11 and 12 Oct. 28, Apr. 10, May 12 An extensive fundraising campaign million coming in through subscription For tickets and information, has come to a close with close to sixty and single ticket sales. More than half visit PNB.org or call 206.441.2424. much-appreciated gifts. Our development comes from The Nutcracker. The School

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In support of its powerful work both on the stage and throughout the community, ArtsFund has provided Pacific Northwest Ballet over $7.7 million in grants since 1970. We are a proud sponsor of PNB’s 2017-2018 season and are thrilled to welcome you to Jewels. For nearly 50 years, ArtsFund has championed the role of the arts in building healthy communities. Access to arts and culture is critical to youth development, vibrant neighborhoods, and quality of life. Our commitment is to strengthen the Central Puget Sound region through support in the arts, and we thank all our donors who make this possible. ArtsFund serves a growing network of 115 Cultural Partners from throughout the region, including PNB. Our grantees alone collectively offer more than 10,000 annual events, exhibits, and performances, welcome 9.7 million patron visits each year, and provide 1.7 million free or discounted tickets. Arts supporters are critical to keeping our cultural nonprofits thriving and ensuring there’s cultural access for all. On behalf of ArtsFund, we thank you for your (top, l-r) PNB Executive Director Ellen Walker, Founding Artistic Director Francia Russell, King contributions as donors and patrons. County Councilmember Claudia Balducci, and Artistic and School Director Peter Boal. © Lindsay Thomas. (below) The front desk at the new Francia Russell Center. © Lindsay Thomas. Enjoy the show!

On September 6, 2017, Pacific Northwest Ballet School celebrated the opening of the all-new Francia Russell Center (FRC) with a ribbon-cutting ceremony after remarks from PNB Founding Artistic Director Francia Russell, Artistic and School Director Peter Boal, Executive Director Ellen Walker, and King Mari Horita Carol R. Powell County Councilmember Claudia Balducci. The ceremony was followed by a President & CEO Chair, Board of Trustees reception and an all-day open house to explore PNB’s beautiful new facility.

More than a ballet school, the FRC is an Eastside gathering space dedicated to education, creativity, and the shared joy of artistic expression. The new facility features:

• Seven state-of-the-art dance • Public spaces for families to studios (plus a Pilates studio) enjoy and to serve the greater with high ceilings, sprung floors, Eastside community and mirrored walls. • Additional studio space for more • A new performance space early childhood dance classes • A library stocked with dance • Certified LEED Gold “green” resources and space for students to facility do homework

Now Enrolling!

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PNB Orchestra

Violin 1 English Horn Michael Lim, Tad Margelli Concertmaster Jennifer Caine- Clarinet Provine, Jennifer Nelson, Associate Principal Concertmaster Denise Lum Emilie Choi, Bass Clarinet/ Assistant E-Flat Concertmaster Denise Lum Stephen Daniels Tom Dziekonski* Bassoon Ella Marie Gray* Mona S. Butler*, Lynn B Johnson Principal Raffaela Kalmar Dana Jackson Peter Krysa Christine Olason* Horn Rodger Burnett*, UW Department of Dance Violin 2 Principal Chamber Dance Company Rita Lee, Principal Danielle Lemieux Ingrid Fredrickson* Richard Reed* William E. Boyd* Ryan Stewart Anne Cady* Adrianna Hulscher Trumpet The Body Politic Laurie Wells Richard Werner* Kim Zabelle October 12-15, 2017 Trombone Viola Mark Williams*, Meany Theatre Alexander Grimes, Principal Principal Kay D.Nichols* Choreography: Betty Agent*, Isadora Duncan 1922 Assistant Principal Bass Trombone Douglas Nierman* Helen Tamiris 1932 Tim Christie Joyce Ramée* Tuba Jane Dudley 1938 Laura Renz Ryan Schultz, Eileen Swanson* Eve Gentry 1938 Principal Lucinda Child 1963 Cello Tympani Susan Marshall 1984 Page Smith*, Principal Phil Hanson*, Virginia Dziekonski*, Kate Weare 2008 Principal Crystal Pite 2009 Assistant Principal Meg Brennand Percussion Andrea Chandler Matthew Tickets: $10-22 Charles Jacot Kocmieroski*, ArtsUW Tickets Brian Wharton Principal Gunnar Folsom 1313 41st St. Bass artsuw.org Todd Larsen**, Harp 206-543-4880 Principal John Carrington, Stephen Schermer, Principal More info: dance.uw.edu Assistant Principal Maurice Clubb Keyboard Ben Musa Allan Dameron Christina Siemens Flute Karla Flygare*, Personnel Manager Photo: Steve Korn Steve Photo: Principal Rodger Burnett Laura Werner Music Librarian Oboe Mona Butler Dan Williams, Principal Tad Margelli*

*Founding members of PNB Orchestra (1989). **25 plus years with PNB Orchestra. The Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra is composed of musicians represented by the PNB Orchestra Players Organization. Steinway & Sons is the official piano of PNB.

10 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PNB News

© m.magee.photo © Kirsten Gradel & Tarek Elghoroury DANCER NEWS

Promotions On September 22, opening night of the 2017-2018 season, Artistic Director Peter Boal was pleased to announce two Company promotions: corps de ballet dancer Ezra Thomson has advanced to the rank of soloist, and soloist Sarah Ricard Orza is the Company’s newest principal dancer. Last season’s apprentices, Madison Rayn Abeo, Amanda Morgan, and Sarah- Gabrielle Ryan, have also been promoted to corps de ballet. Please join us in congratulating these dancers on their career milestones.

New and Returning Dancers (top) Kristen Rusnak and James Moore. Margaret Mullin and Cory Foster. Sarah Pasch and Ezra Thomson. PNB is pleased to welcome a new (above) Laura, Jerome, and Amelie Tisserand. apprentice, Christopher D’Ariano. Mr. D’Ariano is from Yonkers, New York. for pure technique and passionate at Lincoln Park; soloist Margaret Mullin He studied at Ballet Tech, the School of performances in Roméo et Juliette, Prodigal wed Cory Foster on July 9 at the Fairmont American Ballet, and on scholarship in the Son, Kent Stowell’s Swan Lake, and last Olympic Hotel; and the Company’s Professional Division at Pacific Northwest season’s guest appearance as the prince newest dancer-couple, corps de ballet Ballet School. He also attended summer in Cendrillon. In addition to his tenure dancer Sarah Pasch and (new) soloist Ezra courses at Ballet Tech, Boston Ballet, at PNB and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Thomson, were married on July 29 in Gig Nederlands Dans Theater, and PNB School. Mr. Postlewaite is a founding member of Harbor. Please join us in offering best He was the recipient of the School of Seattle’s Whim W’Him dance company. wishes to PNB’s summer newlyweds. American Ballet Mae L. Wien Award for Congratulations to the Company’s Outstanding Promise. newest parents, PNB principal dancers Three Weddings and a Baby! The Company also welcomes the return Laura and Jerome Tisserand. Amelie Sophie of principal dancer Lucien Postlewaite. Mr. No summer break is complete for the Tisserand was born on July 11 and weighed Postlewaite joined the Company in 2003 dancers without growing the PNB family. 8lbs 4oz. Her parents report that their tiny and rose to the rank of principal before 2017 set a record with three dancer dancer is “without question the best thing joining Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in 2012. weddings: Kristen Rusnak married PNB that has ever happened to us! We are over A PNB audience favorite, he was recognized principal dancer James Moore on June 12 the moon in love with our little angel.”

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Price Suddarth, and Noelani Pantastico The renowned Summer Course faculty in her choreographic debut; dancers from includes the School’s regular faculty along PNB, The YC, and Au Collective; local with several guest instructors, consultants, musicians Jyun Jyun and Kelle J. Brown; and seminar speakers. and pop up performances throughout the Enrollment in the Summer Course park by Purple Lemonade Collective. can lead to an invitation to participate in Read more about this year’s line-up at the School’s Professional Division (PD), PNB.org/sculptureddance. an intensive full-time training program designed to help students transition PNB SCHOOL NEWS from student to professional dancer. This summer, 24 new applicants were accepted 2017 Summer Course into the Professional Division for a total of 48: 33 women and 15 men. Twenty-seven Hundreds of young dancers flocked to current PNB Company dancers came to Seattle July 10-August 11 for PNB School’s PNB via the Summer Course. acclaimed Summer Course, which attracts outstanding ballet students from across the country and around the globe. Students 12-18 years old were invited following the School’s 29-city Summer Company dancers performing Noelani Pantastico’s Picnic at Alexander Calder’s “Eagle.” © Angela Course Audition Tour, conducted last Sterling. January and February. Last winter’s Tour auditioned 2,050 students (678 of whom SCULPTURED DANCE 2017 were accepted) for the highly selective and competitive intensive. This summer’s 302 4,000 Seattleites gathered at Olympic enrolled students (our largest Summer Sculpture Park on August 31 to experience Course to date) came from 35 states, the second year of Summer at SAM: and nine countries, and represented 200 Sculptured Dance. This popular event is ballet schools. Training encompasses part of an ongoing partnership between 14-17 classes per week, with curriculum PNB and Seattle Art Museum and made that includes ballet technique, pointe, possible by generous support from variations, repertory, and pas de deux, as The Wallace Foundation, through its well as modern, jazz, character, Flamenco Building Audiences for Sustainability dance, choreography, and Pilates mat initiative. Participating artists included classes, plus seminars on a wide variety of 2017 PNB School Summer Course student with choreographers Dani Tirrell, Eva Stone, topics relevant to the young dancer. faculty member Dane Holman. © Angela Sterling.

2017 PNB School Summer Course students. © Angela Sterling. Leotards by Solu.

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Program Notes Jewels Emeralds | Rubies | Diamonds

MUSIC: Emeralds—Gabriel Fauré (from Pelléas et Melisande, 1898, and Shylock, 1889); Rubies—Igor Stravinsky (Capriccio for piano and orchestra, 1929); Diamonds—Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29, 1875, first movement omitted) CHOREOGRAPHY: George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust STAGING: Elyse Borne SCENIC AND COSTUME DESIGN: Jerome Kaplan LIGHTING DESIGN: Randall G. Chiarelli PREMIERE: April 13, 1967; New York City Ballet PNB PREMIERE: June 1, 2006 (Rubies premiere: February 3, 1988); new production September 22, 2017

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s Jewels is made possible by Patty Edwards.

Presenting support for the 2017 Pacific Northwest Ballet production of George Balanchine’s Emeralds is provided by Dan & Pam Baty, with additional support from Mimi Paul and Violette Verdy (Emeralds), Suzanne Farrell (Diamonds), and Patricia McBride (Rubies) Lynne E. Graybeal & Scott Harron. with George Balanchine in a promotional photo for Jewels. © Edward Pfizenmaier.

Principal support for the 2017 Pacific over fifteen years ago when Mr. George Symphony in C), he identified a different Northwest Ballet production of Rubies is Balanchine and Mr. Claude Arpels were jewel for each movement—ruby, black provided by Bob Benson, with additional introduced by violinist Nathan Milstein diamond, emerald, and pearl—and the support from Marcella McCaffray. but it was not until early 1966, after a visit costumes reflected their colors. by Mr. Balanchine to Van Cleef & Arpels’ Emeralds, Rubies, and Diamonds Presenting support for the 2017 Pacific Fifth Avenue Salons, that the idea of the premiered on a mixed bill that closed Northwest Ballet production of Diamonds is ballet really began to grow. So impressed with Balanchine’s Prodigal Son. The provided by Patty Edwards, with additional was Mr. Balanchine by the beauty of the matinee three days later opened with support from Chap & Eve Alvord, Lyndall jewels he saw there, that he decided to try Balanchine’s one-act Swan Lake, followed Boal, and an anonymous donor. to capture it forever. The jewel motif in the by the three new ballets. Critic Clive three ballets is carried through by Mme. Barnes suggested calling the collective The works of George Balanchine performed Karinska’s costume designs with strong ballets “The Jewels” (apparently this was by Pacific Northwest Ballet are made emphasis on jeweled decoration.” Balanchine’s working title) in his New possible in part by The Louise Nadeau In naming his three ballets after jewels, York Times review on April 17, which bore Endowed Fund. Balanchine followed significant precedent. the headline, “Appraising Balanchine’s Several ballets from his home theater, ‘Jewels.’” Barnes asserted, “[It] still has no the Maryinsky, in St. Petersburg featured title on the program, but it has to be called Jewels. The name sounds expensive and jewel characters. Marius Petipa’s Sleeping something,” and he used “The Jewels” as perfect for a box-office hit. But when Beauty (1890) included fairies of gold, a surrogate throughout the review. In an Balanchine’s “plotless full-length ballet,” silver, sapphire, and diamond in the ballet’s interview two weeks after the premiere as it was touted, premiered at New York third act; the original Nutcracker (1892) and also published in The New York Times, City Ballet on April 13, 1967, it had no title, featured emerald and ruby pages and silver Balanchine wasn’t bothered by the lack of only three sections called Emeralds, Rubies, soldiers in the second act’s land of sweets, a title: “How do you name ballets anyway? and Diamonds. (Balanchine explained, Confitürembourg; andThe Pearl (1896), I wanted to call it ‘Le Diamant,’ in French. “I thought of doing sapphire, too—I had Petipa’s coronation ballet for Tsar Nicholas ‘Diamond’ in English is no good. The Schoenberg in mind, but the color of II, included dances for white, pink, black, ballet has nothing to do with jewels, the sapphire is so hard to get across on stage.”) and yellow pearls. dancers are just dressed like jewels.” This The printed program offered the Balanchine himself appropriated the sort of illusory statement was typical of following note by Lincoln Kirstein: jewel theme twenty years before choreo- Balanchine. When asked what Rubies was “The idea for a new ballet using highly graphing Emeralds, Rubies, and Diamonds. about, he reportedly answered, “It’s about jeweled costumes was started in Europe In Le Palais de Cristal (1947, later renamed twenty minutes.”

14 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET commentary on the famous pas de trois from Paquita (1846). This was a dance Balanchine had performed as a student in Petrograd and to which he returned throughout his career, including it in the repertory of his Young Ballet and staging it at least two more times. Emeralds was a relatively short ballet in its first outing. In 1976, Balanchine added a second pas de deux, for Verdy and her partner, and a pas de sept, a slow finale for the seven leading dancers. (He also made changes to the second ballerina’s solo; Mimi Paul has restored the original choreography for PNB.) In this second finale, the dancers form necklace patterns (also featured in Rubies, particularly its opening pose), but more so the women personify an essential element of both the Romantic era and

(l-r) Mimi Paul coaching Company dancers in Emeralds (2014). © Lindsay Thomas. Mimi Paul and Francisco Balanchine’s own perennial fascination— Moncion in Emeralds. © Martha Swope. the elusive ballerina—as they are lifted gently before vanishing from the stage, The quest to uncover meaning and 19th-century art, with its idealized view of leaving the men kneeling, looking into the intention in Balanchine’s works has long the Middle Ages, chivalry, and courtly love. distance, searching. fascinated the dance world, and Jewels is no Balanchine made two ballerina roles in Choreographed for Patricia McBride and exception. Ideas, analyses, and commen- Emeralds, casting Violette Verdy and Mimi Edward Villella, two of the most vivacious taries abound. Sometimes these have been Paul, contrasting personalities—the former performers in American dance history, plus a aided by Balanchine’s words, others times effusive and open, the latter elusive and supporting female lead and a corps of twelve, stymied, but more often their effect is private—their dances creating worlds that Rubies effuses glam wit and jazzy chic. The simply intriguing because of his general invite audiences in as intimate observers. ballet offers a fusion of some of Balanchine’s silence. What seems clear are three things: one, Balanchine made Jewels to display the breadth and diversity of his New York City Ballet talent in its new and spacious New York State Theater; two, he created leading roles carefully tailored to his star dancers; and three, he paid tribute, consciously or otherwise, to three countries, their music, their schools of dance, and their contribu- tions to his development as a choreographer. Balanchine considered Emeralds “an evocation of France—the France of elegance, comfort, dress, and perfume.” The ballet is choreographed for two principal couples, a trio, and a corps de ballet of ten women.

The notes in the printed program for the (l-r) Violette Verdy coaching Company dancers in Emeralds (2014). © Lindsay Thomas. Violette Verdy in a April 16 matinee described Balanchine’s promotional photo for Jewels. © Edward Pfizenmaier, collection of Robert Greskovic. Swan Lake as “a contemporary commentary on a classic masterpiece.” In similar fashion, The choreography capitalizes on the unique current interests in choreography: the Emeralds can be considered Balanchine’s characteristics of these two dancers while partnership of McBride and Villella—they comment on the French school of dancing utilizing movement vocabulary of the recently had been paired in Balanchine’s and its rich heritage. France is the birthplace French school, with its emphasis on precise Tarantella (1964) and Harlequinade of classical ballet and also where Balanchine footwork and a sculptural and expressive (1965); his ongoing response to the recent came into his own as a choreographer in upper body. In the ballet’s first finale, for the astringent music of Igor Stravinsky as well the 1920s, working for the Ballets Russes entire ensemble, restraint and decorum are as jazz and jazz-inspired works in general; under the direction of Serge Diaghilev. suggested by arabesques par terre, in which and what seems to have been a renewed With a score by Gabriel Fauré and dancers the outstretched leg remains on the ground, interest in Broadway and film-inspired dressed in Romantic-length tutus—ballet’s while a more outgoing mood is captured choreography, possibly motivated by his Romantic era was the mid-1800s, producing earlier in the trio for two women and a man recent ballets set to jazz—a revival of such iconic Parisian ballets as La Sylphide (he sometimes is referred to as “the Poet”). Slaughter on Tenth Avenue would follow a and Giselle—Emeralds also can be a window This dance, made for Suki Schorer, Sara year after Rubies, with Who Cares?, set to on the nostalgia inherent in much late Leland, and John Prinz, may be Balanchine’s Gershwin songs, coming in 1970.

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of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3, recalls this choreographer subscribed and a burst Balanchine’s youth: the grandeur of St. of heresy, too.” Petersburg, the Maryinsky Theater, and the Since Balanchine’s death in 1983, Jewels Imperial Ballet, where Balanchine trained. has grown in popularity. Now nearly all of Visual echoes of Petipa’s late ballets, Swan the world’s major companies include the Lake (1895) and Raymonda (1898), abound. entire ballet in their repertories. It offers not The centerpiece is an intimate pas de deux, only the diversity of Balanchine’s creative potent in its chivalrous reserve, for the inspiration but fills an entire program while ballerina and her cavalier. At its end, the avoiding the naiveté of many prevalent story entire cast joins the principal couple for a ballets (though some might argue Jewels gloriously spirited polonaise. Diamonds is not altogether devoid of this quality in was made for Suzanne Farrell, Balanchine’s its depiction of utopian societies whose leading muse, and Jacques d’Amboise. members are content within its hierarchy). Farrell brought a remote and austere quality In observance of this year’s fiftieth to Diamonds in its early years that perhaps anniversary, the Lincoln Center Festival softened over time and in the hands of presented Jewels performed jointly by Paris subsequent interpreters. Such was her Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, and the perceived independence in the role, even Bolshoi Ballet, each representing a country in the pas de deux as she was partnered by and tradition associated with the ballet. d’Amboise, that the great American dance Here at Pacific Northwest Ballet, Peter Patricia McBride and Edward Villella in a critic Arlene Croce proclaimed Farrell “the Boal has observed the milestone year by promotional photo for Rubies. © Edward freest woman alive.” commissioning new scenic and costume Pfizenmaier, collection of Robert Greskovic.

Rubies’ saucy leading couple plays and competes as equals, and the second, siren-like ballerina, a role made for Patricia Neary, takes on the men of the corps de ballet, requiring all four of them to partner her at once. The centralpas de deux is filled with acrobatic tension and surprise. The fast and good-natured finale features some of the ballet’s most memorable dancing, especially the moment where the corps men chase the principal man like a pack of boys on the street. Rubies is the Jewels ballet most often performed on its own, particularly in the years shortly after its premiere—not only does it have the smallest cast of the three, but it’s arguably the most accessible.

(l-r) Jacques d’Amboise coaching principal dancer Lesley Rausch in Diamonds (2014). © Lindsay Thomas. Suzanne Farrell and Jacques d’Amboise in Diamonds. Collection of Robert Greskovic.

Jewels was made during New York City designs from Parisian artist Jerome Kaplan, Ballet’s early years in the expansive New now a frequent collaborator with the York State Theater, a space Balanchine was company (Don Quixote, Roméo et Juliette, training his company to inhabit by dancing Giselle). Boal brought Jewels to PNB in on a larger scale, with greater sweep of 2006, and since that time he has periodi- movement. New York’s theater-going public cally invited members of the original cast had caught “ballet fever” and the company to work with the dancers on their roles. boasted a diverse roster of “stars” (a term These memorable visits have included Balanchine avoided). Jewels was a showcase Verdy, Paul, Villella, Farrell, and d’Amboise. Edward Villella giving notes to Jonathan Porretta following dress rehearsal for Rubies (2014). for those stars—“lovingly fashioned to The timeless coaching provided by these © Angela Sterling. exhibit the special qualities of the dancers,” legendary artists combined with Kaplan’s wrote Robert Garis—and a statement fresh designs will ensure Jewels’ place in the Diamonds is Balanchine’s homage to of achievement for Balanchine and his repertory for years to come. his native St. Petersburg. Like Emeralds, company, which Garis referred to as the Diamonds may be viewed as a commentary, “Balanchine Enterprise.” Croce described Notes by Doug Fullington. this time on the Russian school, a combi- Jewels as “unsurpassed as a Balanchine Igor Stravinsky’s Capriccio for piano and orchestra nation of French elegance and Italian primer, incorporating in a single evening ( Rubies) by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., virtuosity. The ballet, set to four movements every important article of faith to which publisher and copyright owner.

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He also choreographed for films, operas, revues, and musicals. Among his best known dances for the stage is Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, originally created for Broadway’s On Your Toes (1936). The musical was later made into a movie. A major artistic figure of the twentieth century, Balanchine revolutionized the look of classical ballet. Taking classicism as his base, he heightened, quickened, expanded, streamlined, and even inverted the fundamentals of the 400-year-old language of academic dance. This had an inestimable influence on the growth of dance in America. Although at first his style seemed particularly suited to the energy and speed of American dancers, especially those he trained, his ballets are now performed by all the major classical Copyright © 2002 The George Balanchine Foundation. Original costume sketches for Jewels by designer Jerome Reprinted by permission. ballet companies throughout the world. Kaplan. © Lindsay Thomas.

George Balanchine Beauty for the Royal Ballet of Denmark. Choreographer In 2011, he designed sets and costume for Ratmansky’s Lost Illusions for the Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, George Bolshoi Ballet, and won a Golden Mask for Balanchine is regarded as the foremost Best Costume Designer. His most recent contemporary choreographer in the world commissions include The Nutcracker for of ballet. He came to the United States the Mikhailovsky Ballet, Giselle for in late 1933, at the age of 29, accepting Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Alexei the invitation of the young American Ratmansky’s Paquita for the Bayeriches arts patron Lincoln Kirstein (1907-96), Staatsballet. Mr. Kaplan also designs whose great passions included the dream extensively for opera and theater. of creating a ballet company in America. At Balanchine’s behest, Kirstein was Randall G. Chiarelli also prepared to support the formation Lighting Designer of an American academy of ballet That would eventually rival the long- (refer to PNB Artistic Staff, page 19) established schools of Europe. This was the School of American Allan Dameron Ballet, founded in 1934, the first product Piano Soloist, Rubies of the Balanchine-Kirstein collaboration. © David Amzallag (refer to PNB Artistic Staff, page 19) Several ballet companies directed by the two were created and dissolved in the Jerome Kaplan Christina Siemens years that followed, while Balanchine Scenic and Costume Designer Piano Soloist, Rubies found other outlets for his choreography. Eventually, with a performance on October Born in Paris, Jerome Kaplan studied at Christina Siemens is a professional pianist 11, 1948, the New York City Ballet was L’Ecole de la Rue Blanche and in 1991, he and vocalist. She began her work with PNB born. Balanchine served as its ballet met the choreographer Jean-Christophe in 2003 and became a full-time Company master and principal choreographer Maillot who introduced him to the Pianist in 2008. Ms. Siemens’ keyboard from 1948 until his death in 1983. world of dance. Since then he has repertory with PNB includes Variations Balanchine’s more than 400 dance created sets and costumes for numerous Serieuse, Concerto DSCH, The Four works include Serenade (1934), Concerto ballets, including Les Ballets de Monte- Temperaments, Petite Mort, Polyphonia, Barocco (1941), Le Palais de Cristal, later Carlo’s Scheherazade; Shanghai Ballet’s In Rubies, and Rush. She has toured with the renamed Symphony in C (1947), Orpheus the Mood for Love; the National Ballet of Company to perform in the Guggenheim (1948), The Nutcracker(1954), Agon (1957), Finland’s The Wood Nymph; the National Museum’s Works and Process series and Symphony in Three Movements(1972), Ballet of Korea’s La fille mal gardée; and with the PNB Orchestra for the 2016 Stravinsky Violin Concerto (1972), Vienna Northern Ballet’s A Sleeping Beauty Tale, New York City Center performances. Waltzes (1977), Ballo della Regina (1978), among others. In 2010, he designed sets Ms. Siemens performs frequently and Mozartiana (1981). His final ballet, and costumes for Alexei Ratmansky’s Don with the Seattle Symphony, Auburn a new version of Stravinsky’s Variations Quixote for the Dutch National Ballet Symphony, Byrd Ensemble, Northwest for Orchestra, was created in 1982. and Christopher Wheeldon’s The Sleeping Boychoir, and Opus 7, among others.

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Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, and San Francisco Peter Boal Allan Ballet. Examples of his scenic credits with PNB Artistic Director Dameron are Carmen, Divertimento #15, Slaughter on Tenth of Pacific Northwest Company Pianist/ Avenue, and La Sonambula. His concert credits Ballet and Director Conductor include designs for Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, of Pacific Northwest and Tony Bennett. Ballet School since A native of 2005. Greensboro, North Carolina, Allan Born in Bedford, Dameron graduated Larae Theige New York, Peter from North Carolina Hascall Boal received his School of the Arts and studied conducting at the training at the School of American Ballet Costume Shop Pierre Monteux School in Maine. Mr. Dameron while performing children’s roles with New Manager has been Music Director and Conductor for York City Ballet. George Balanchine invited Chicago City Ballet and Assistant Conductor Born in Spokane, Peter to join the company as an apprentice at Chicago Lyric Opera. Prior to joining PNB Washington, Larae in 1983, and he continued to dance for he was a chamber music professor at Northern Hascall joined PNB NYCB until his retirement in 2005, when he Illinois University. As a chamber music pianist, in 1983 and became moved to Seattle. He also served as a faculty Mr. Dameron has been a guest artist with the Costume Shop member for SAB. In addition to directing Vermeer and Audubon Quartets and is a member Manager in 1987. She PNB School, Peter teaches the Professional of Ariel Trio. Mr. Dameron performs piano solo supervises both Costume Shop and Wardrobe in Division and Company. He has staged works work for PNB ballets, including Appassionata, the creation, alteration, and maintenance of all by George Balanchine and Ulysses Dove for The Concert (Or, The Perils of Everybody), Duo costumes worn in PNB productions. She is also PNB, PNB School, and other companies. Concertant, Für Alina, and Rubies. supervisor for specialty makeup and wigs. Ms. Hascall has been the primary collaborator for costumes created by such renowned designers Emil de Cou as Martin Pakledinaz (A Midsummer Night’s Norbert Dream), Paul Tazewell (Kent Stowell’s Swan Music Director/ Herriges Principal Conductor Lake), Roberta Guidi di Bagno (Coppélia), Santo Technical Director Loquasto (Waiting at the Station) and Jérôme Emil de Cou Kaplan (Jewels). has been Pacific Norbert Herriges Northwest Ballet’s began working in Seattle theater after Music Director and Otto Neubert Principal Conductor receiving his degree since 2011. Previously, in Theatre Arts at Ballet Master he was associate Southern Oregon Otto Neubert has conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra State College in been PNB’s Ballet and 2016 will mark his 15th season as conductor Ashland, Oregon. In 1984, he started at ACT as Master since 1991. of the NSO performances at Wolf Trap a scenic builder and in 1991 moved to Seattle Born in Munich, Foundation for the Performing Arts. Mr. de Cou Repertory Theatre, where he worked for fifteen Germany, Mr. debuted at Carnegie Hall as guest conductor for years as a shop carpenter and later as scenic Neubert received his the New York Pops, and has also conducted the Coordinator. In the course of his 28-year career training with Alex orchestras of Philadelphia, Chicago, Houston, in local theater, Mr. Herriges worked backstage Ursuliak, the Stuttgart Saint Louis, Detroit, Montreal, and Boston for PNB in various capacities. He was appointed Ballet School, the School of American Ballet, Pops, among others. He was Principal Pops Interim Technical Director for PNB in February and with Marika Besobrasova in Monte Carlo. Conductor for the San Francisco Symphony and 2011 and assumed the position of Technical He danced as a soloist with New York City Ballet also serves as musical consultant for NASA. In Director in July of 2011. Mr. Herriges oversees and at Stuttgart Ballet. Mr. Neubert assists the 1985, Mikhail Baryshnikov hired Mr. de Cou to and coordinates all technical aspects of PNB’s Artistic Director in teaching and rehearsing the conduct American Ballet Theatre and in 1994, productions, assisted by an exceptional staff of Company, and rehearses PNB School students he joined the staff of San Francisco Ballet. Other stage technicians and managers. in their roles for Company productions. He ballet companies he has conducted include has performed as a guest artist in The Sleeping New York City Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Beauty, Don Quixote, Kent Stowell’s Swan Lake, Netherlands Dance Theatre, and Hong Kong Randall G. Prodigal Son, and George Balanchine’s The Ballet. Mr. de Cou was born in Los Angeles Chiarelli Nutcracker. and studied at the University of Southern Lighting Designer California. He was the subject of a documentary on National Public Radio and was chosen from Mr. Chiarelli has 200 candidates to study in Leonard Bernstein’s devoted a career to master class at the Hollywood Bowl. lighting for dance. For PNB he designed the majority of work by Kent Stowell, Founding Artistic Director. Together with Francia Russell he designed the lighting for the Company’s entire Balanchine repertory. Other choreographers at PNB include Donald Byrd, Lucinda Childs, Mark Dendy, Susan Stroman, and Christopher Wheel- don. In addition he has designed lighting for American Ballet Theatre, Houston Ballet, Joffery

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 PRINCIPAL

Ms. Susan Y. Buske Daniel & Margaret Carper Foundation Ms. Crissa Cugini In Honor of Norma Cugini Donna & Rob Dughi Lynne E. Graybeal & Scott Harron Ms. Laura Hunter Mr. H. David Kaplan Maria Mackey Gunn Michael & Barbara Malone Mary-Catherine Schugel & Millie Chu

Elizabeth Murphy and Karel Cruz in the PNB premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.  © Angela Sterling. CORPS DE BALLET

PNB’s New Works Initiative provides a flexible environment to create new works, develop Dr. Frank & Lynn Lindsay dancers through performances, and fashion a repertory both firmly rooted in tradition and Mr. David Mattson committed to the evolution of the artistic medium. New works contribute to the advancement Frederick McDonald of the art form, while presenting PNB’s audiences with a wide range of dance to bolster a strong appreciation of the versatility of ballet and a true understanding of various choreographers’ Bob & Annette Parks bodies of work. PNB would like to thank the following individuals and organizations that have Elizabeth & Stephen Pirnat supported the New Works Initiative with a gift of $1,000 or more over the past year. Patrick & Dianne Schultheis Peyton & Carolann Storli Chap & Eve Alvord Ms. Toni Hoover & Simon & Carol Ottenberg Ms. Maggie Walker Dan & Pam Baty Mr. Alfred Nettles Bob & Annette Parks Bob Benson Peter & Peggy Horvitz Elizabeth & Stephen Pirnat Tom & Connie Walsh Jack Blaylock & Jane Evans Ms. Ming Hu Suzanne and John Rahn Carol Wright Lyndall Boal Ms. Laura Hunter Mimi Richards Jeffrey* & Susan Brotman Tom* & Gail James Michael Righi Ms. Susan Y. Buske H. David Kaplan Mary-Catherine Schugel Meeka Charles Glenn Kawasaki Patrick & Dianne Schultheis Jon R. Conte & Margaret Kerrigan April & Steven Kieburtz Peyton & Carolann Storli Cheryl Clark & Stephan Coonrod Lisa Kroese Dr. Michael & Peggy Swistak In Honor of Norma Cugini Greg Kusnick & Karen Jo Gustafson Ms. Jessica Tarzan Michael W. Dabney Sharon Lee Ms. Amy Theobald Daniel & Margaret Carper Barbara Lewis Jennifer Thompson Foundation Dr. Frank & Lynn Lindsay Ms. Maggie Walker Donna & Rob Dughi Jeff & Nancy Loch Tom & Connie Walsh Patty Edwards Maria Mackey Gunn Toby & Linda Warson William & Carole Ellison Michael & Barbara Malone Carol Wright Foundation Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation Ms. Jodi Wong Joan Fitzmaurice Leslie* & David Mattson Leslie & Tachi Yamada Ms. Anne M. Foster Helene Mawyer Anonymous Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Marcella McCaffray Emeralds tiara under Lynne E. Graybeal & Jolene McCaw and Family construction by the Costume Scott Harron Frederick McDonald Shop’s Terry Frank. David & Cheryl Hadley Melba Mckay & Paul Gockel © Lindsay Thomas. Aya Stark Hamilton Dr. Joe G. Norman, Jr.

22 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET Révérence Society

The Révérence Society was established to honor those who remember Pacific Northwest Ballet in their long- range financial and estate plans–ensuring the artistic BANDALOOP and financial strength of PNB for future generations. Estate gifts come in all sizes and include gifts through wills, living trusts and beneficiary desig­nations on retirement plan accounts, and life insurance policies; other deferred gifts such as charitable gift annuities and October 5-7 charitable remainder trusts provide lifetime income. If you would like more information on how to join the Révérence Society and begin receiving special behind-the-scenes benefits or how to include PNB in your estate plans, please contact Carrie Mood, Major Gifts & Planned Giving Manager, at 206.441.3599 or [email protected], or visit www.PNB.org/support/plannedgiving.

David Akiyama Edith Kraemer Rev. Mary Petty Anderson Betty Kreager Sena Baron Frances J. Kwapil Patty & Jimmy Barrier Joan T. Lasersohn Courtney and John Geist Dr. Frank & Lynn Lindsay Carl & Renee Behnke Leslie* & David Mattson Sharon A. Bidwell Arthur H. Mazzola Elisabeth Bottler Mr. & Mrs. J. Daniel* John H. Bowen McConnell Mr. Robert Braun Frederick W. McDonald Susan Brotman Edward McGuirk Lorna Brown David Michaud Mr. Peter Brown and Curt & Mary Mikkelsen Contemporary dance is turned on its side with Ms. Janet McKinnon Roger F. Miller innovative dance company BANDALOOP. Combining intricate Carol A. Burch Dr. Armin & Beverly Mohr Diane Burgess Ann D. Molitor choreography with the art and science of climbing, they bring Daniel Burkert Lisa & Jonathan Morris Sally S. Cahill Brookbank Phyllis Moss their perspective-bending dance to Seattle, performing both Dorrienne Chinn Carol & Paul Neiman Ferrell Nathan Conn Judy & Arnie Ness inside and on the exterior of Meany Hall. Gail A. Cottle Dr. Joe G. Norman, Jr. Tavia Crowder Anonymous Judith Cushman Quick & Ms. Margaret Ordornia FEATURING a world premiere with music by Gabriel Prokofi ev. Bob Quick Mr. & Mrs. Richard Parsell Michael W. Dabney William & Carol Parsons Rita Daubenspeck Richard & Jean Patton Tatiana Davidson Jean E. Phillips John Delo Tony Sepanski & Sheila C. Dietrich Ann Logan Phillips Jennifer Doscher Lynn Ries William J.* & Sandra B. Dunn James & Sherry Raisbeck Mrs. Patty Edwards E.R.H. Jim & Ann Elias Richard C. Redman Thomas & Jane Fadden Ms. Christina Rich Stockton & Janice Forrest Mimi Richards Kate Forster Royce & Maura Roberts Russell & Nancy Fosmire Ann Lyda Rogers Deborah Gates Mary K. Rogers Natalie Gendler Kathryn McPherson Roon Gail Goralski Dr. H. Martin Rosa Inger A. Goranson Cornelius & Penny Rosse Gene Grantham JoAnne Hardt Rudo Mrs. James S. Griffin John Rudolf Mr. & Mrs. James M. Michael Ann Sagin Halverson Judith Schoenecker Aya Hamilton Sam Sebesta Jan Harper John F. & Julia P.* Shaw Cathi & Ken Hatch Mr. & Mrs. Michael Sheetz Joann Haugerud John & Melba Short Ms. Amy J. Haugerud Sue Ann Smith Catherine Hobi Hawes W. Dyanne Stepanek W. Daniel Heidt & Dr. Michael & Peggy Swistak Michele B. Heidt Sharon Van Valin & Klaus and Joaquenia Heinrich Richard Tait Paula Hopping Wayne Thurman Peter Horvitz Dr. Darlene A. Townsend Roy L. Hughes Beni Turan Tom* & Gail James Nicholas Utzinger & Robert C. Jenkins John Rochford SUBSCRIBE to all six Spencer A. Johnson & Braiden Elaine Vona Rex Johnson Deidra Wager World Dance Series performances Ms. Karlene Johnson Rebecca Walker and SAVE 20% over the price of Barbara A. Johnston Mr. Mike Waters H. David Kaplan Cathy & Ross Wiggins single tickets. April & Steven Kieburtz Judy Williams Ken & Claudia Kilbreath Mr. John C. Wilson, Jr. Debby Kim Ms. Jodi Wong Rocke R. Koreis & Evelyn Zabo MEANYCENTER.ORG | 206-543-4880 Candy J. Lee Anonymous (10)

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the 4Culture • The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation • ArtsFund • ArtsWA • Bank of America • The Boeing Company • Million Jeffrey and Susan Brotman • Jane M.* and David R. Davis • John and Carmen* Delo • Estate of Ruth Hoffman • Dollar gift club Peter and Peggy Horvitz • Glenn Kawasaki • Kreielsheimer Foundation • Office of Arts & Culture-Seattle • David Michaud • Microsoft Corporation • National Pacific Northwest Ballet gratefully Endowment for the Arts • Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield Phelps • acknowledges the following PONCHO • James D. and Sherry Raisbeck Touring Fund • individuals and organizations who Samuel and Althea Stroum* • Seattle Foundation • have committed $1 million or more The Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration of the to support the Ballet’s operating Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Surdna Foundation needs or capital, endowment, The Wallace Foundation • Washington State Office of touring, and new works initiatives. Community Development • Anonymous

Madison Rayn Abeo at a costume fitting for Diamonds, choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust.

Pacific Northwest Ballet gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for Alex & Sandra Lange Royce & Aggie Church their generous support of the Annual Fund during the past year. These generous Sharon Lee Caroline Gallée & Frank contributors are an integral part of our success, sustaining and enriching artistic Dr. Frank & Lynn Lindsay Peschel-Gallée productions, dance education, and community outreach programs. For information Nancy & Jeff Loch Stacy & Frank Graves on how to become part of this esteemed group of donors, contact Rachel Perlot, The MacRae Family Foundation Ms. Anne Holmes Individual Giving Associate, at 206.441.3589, or [email protected]. Christina Marra & Paul Silver Christian Huitema & Neige Gil Frederick W. McDonald Ms. Laura Hunter Individual Donors BALLET MASTERS CIRCLE Carol & Paul Neiman Ned & Pam Johnson $10,000-$24,999 Dr. Joe G. Norman, Jr. Helene Mawyer Stowell Society Dr. & Mrs. Ellsworth C.* Susan & Dennis Okamoto Charles Maxfield & Gloria F. Parrish Alvord, Jr. Alida & Douglas Oles Foundation ARTISTIC DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE Rita & Jerry* Anches Gwendolyn Payton & John Neeleman Charles Newton $100,000 AND ABOVE Donna & Anthony Barnett Elizabeth & Stephen Pirnat Eric Schlegel & Mary Stout Jeffrey* & Susan Brotman Jack Blaylock & Jane Evans PNB School Parents’ Association Mary-Catherine Schugel Christina Tanner Mrs. Patty Edwards Elisabeth Bodal PNB STARS Stephanie Wallach Peter & Peggy Horvitz Elisabeth Bottler Charles M. Powell & Tuan Ngo David & Romayne Watt Glenn Kawasaki Dr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Boyce Mr. & Mrs. Tom A. Puentes Ray & Judy Williams Jolene McCaw & Family Ms. Susan Y. Buske Barbara Ries Ms. Virginia D. Wyman Anonymous Cheryl Clark & Stephan Coonrod Catherine & Grant Ries Jon R. Conte & Margaret Kerrigan Lynn Ries & Rod Proctor Anonymous (3) CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE Jane Cremin Anonymous in Honor of Mimi Richards Haim N. Schoppik MEMBERS OF THE BARRE $50,000-$99,999 John Delo & Elizabeth Stokes William J.* & Sandra B. Dunn Denise Sobel $4,000-$5,999 Carl & Renee Behnke William & Carole Ellison Foundation Mel & Leena Sturman Kari Anderson & Mark Pavlovic Bob Benson Jerald E. Farley Ms. Maryanne Tagney Jones Phoebe Andrew Lyndall Boal Ms. Rebecca Figueroa Ms. Jessica Tarzan Ms. Katherine Barclay-Robertson David & Cheryl Hadley Joan Fitzmaurice Shannon Tierney, MD Linda Berkman Aya Stark Hamilton Marcus Fontoura & Ana Doliveira Aimee Truchard Tom & Jeannie Blank Marcella McCaffray Dr. Stephen & Beverly Fuhs Ms. Natasha Lalji Verjee Capt. & Mrs. Paul Bloch Deidra Wager Robin Gainey Sheree Wen Gary & Linda Blume Leslie & Tachi Yamada Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Sally Anne West & Peder Knudsen* John & Maralyn Burnley Blume Susan & Bill Grinstein Bagley * & Virginia Wright Daniel & Margaret Carper Foundation PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE W. Daniel Heidt & Anonymous (5) Ellen C. Carnwath $25,000-$49,000 Michele B. Heidt Stuart H. Coleman and Lisa & Richard Altig Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Herb SCHOLARSHIP PATRON Mery Rosofsky Chap & Eve Alvord Kalen & Sean Holmes $6,000-$9,999 Michael* & Lois Craig The Kemper Freeman Family Tom* & Gail James Bill & Kari Anspach In Honor of Norma Cugini Lynne E. Graybeal & Scott Harron Christy Jones & Rob Lilleness Linda & Tom Allen Judith Cushman Ms. Toni Hoover & Sara A. Jones Patty & Jimmy Barrier Nicole & Weiyou Cui Mr. Alfred Nettles Gilla Kaplan Courtney Bear & John Geist John Dagres & Jack Odell Jim & Diana Judson Steven & April Kieburtz Kent & Barbara Chaplin Mrs. Tatiana Davidson Mr. H. David Kaplan Daniel Kingston & Shirlee D. Christensen Jane M.* & David R. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Travis H. Keeler Maureen Mooney Royce & Aggie Church Bertrand & Brooke de Boutray James & Sherry Raisbeck Mr. & Mrs. Tim Kirley Dr. Terrence Cronin Phil & Lenore Defliese John & Melba Short Rocke R. Koreis & Candy J. Lee Sheila C. Dietrich Kathryn Del Beccaro Dr. Michael & Peggy Swistak Lisa Kroese Jean Enersen & Bruce Carter Margaret A. Dell’Osso Tom & Connie Walsh Greg Kusnick & Karen Jo Gustafson Sharon Falkner & Elizabeth & Shawn Dougherty Ms. Jodi Wong Firoz & Najma Lalji Gene Chamberlain Donna & Rob Dughi

24 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET Dr. Milton & Nancy English Kristina M. Erickson Ms. Margaret J. Field William E. Franklin Alyce & Lowell Fritz Michelle & Matt Galvin Natalie Gendler Age Differently Mrs. James L. Goedhart Gail Goralski Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Hedreen At Horizon House, Stephen & Marie Heil Gail Hongladarom in honor of the we celebrate Salas Family independence and CathyBeth & Steven W. Hooper Ms. Marilyn Lee Huey & welcome everyone Ms. Dorothy Sloan Huey* who chooses to Roy Hughes & Julie Davis Ms. Jo Anne Iaciofano live creatively. JJ & Erica Jaramillo Spencer A. Johnson & Braiden Rex Johnson Call today to Jeanne Kanach Bill & Kathie Kreager schedule a visit: Stephen & Marleen Land 206.382.3100 Barbara Lewis Mr. Joshua Lieberman Maria Mackey Gunn 900 University Street Nikki & Mark Mahan Seattle, WA 98101 Michael & Barbara Malone Mr. David Mattson Jim & Julie McElroy Mr.* & Mrs. Curt Mikkelsen Thomas A. Nowak M.D www.HorizonHouse.org Mr. John O’Connell & Mrs. Joyce Latino Dr. Jeffrey Okey & Mrs. Paige Franke Barbara Omalev John Parchem & Barbara Lycett Richard & Jean Patton Mrs. Marda Phelps Mrs. Ellen Pottenger & Simone J. Berger Blake Primeaux 1/3-pg square; 4.75” wide x 4.875” high Dick & Alice Rapasky Ms. Christina Rich Dr. Mack & Susan Richey Carolyn L. Roe The Rita and Herbert Rosen Family Foundation Susan & Ron Runyon Maher & Elena Saba Grant & Dorrit Saviers Ms. Alesha & Mr. Dave Shemwell Diane Stevens Jennifer Thompson John & Eileen Tietze Mimi A. Tutihasi Nicholas Utzinger & John Rochford Robert & Lisa Wahbe Frederick & Elizabeth Walters Toby and Linda Warson Anonymous (2)

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PNB FOUNDATION BOARD John Graham Foundation Adele Golub W. Daniel Heidt & Michele B. Heidt Gerald & Lyn Grinstein Chairman, Peter Horvitz Estate of Pauline Hood Mark & Julie Hutcheson Foundation Immediate Past Chair, Susan Brotman Bruce & Carol Hosford Skip & Jackie Kotkins Jim & Diana Judson Lisa Kroese President, Aya Hamilton Frederick W. McDonald Diane & Gordon Kuenster Vice President, David Hadley Estate of Shirley Callison Miner Helen L. Luchs* Secretary, Joan Fitzmaurice Margaret Perthou-Taylor* Dennis & Linda Mitchell Treasurer, Dan Heidt John & Elizabeth Rudolf Estate of Beatrice Olson Members at large, Carl Behnke, Phil Schlaepfer, Jeanne Ellen Tweten & James W. Leslie Heidi Orr Dan Kingston Estate of Frankie Wakefield Estate of Opal J. Orr Ron & Carolyn Woodard Cynthia Phelps* Pacific Northwest Ballet gratefully acknowledges the Carol Wright Mr. R. Stewart Phelps following donors to the PNB Endowment, established Barbara Prestrud, In Memory of Mr. & Mrs. Louis K. Bye in 1996 to ensure the future stability of PNB. If you $25,000–$49,999 Lynn Ries would like to give a gift to the PNB Endowment that will The Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Charitable Foundation Estate of Mary Schneidler help secure the future of PNB, please contact Elizabeth Jerry & Rita Anches Donna & Joshua Taylor Damore, Director of Development, at 206.441.3594 or Sharon & Jay Ballantine Wayne Thurman [email protected]. Patty & Jimmy Barrier Anonymous John & Kay Baxter Rebecca & Jack Benaroya $10,000–$14,999 $1,000,000 and above Benjamin Bevis Erik & Sherilyn Anderson Jeffrey* & Susan Brotman Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Braun, Jr. Betty L. Blakeney John & Carmen* Delo Mr. & Mrs. Anson Brooks, Jr. Tom* & Jeannie Blank Kreielsheimer Foundation Ralph E. Bruno* Bill & June Boeing David Michaud Estate of Cordelia Louise Burns Diane Canaday & Daniel Hesse The Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration Dale & Leslie Chihuly Mrs. Phyllis B. Clark of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Cheryl Clark & Stephen Coonrod Steven & Judith Clifford Surdna Foundation Clise Properties, Inc. Tatiana Davidson Anonymous Gail Cottle & Reynold Brown Mrs. Mildred K. Dunn Derdick Trust Jim & Ann Elias $500,000–$999,999 Patty Edwards Dr. Stephen & Beverly Fuhs Estate of Ruth Hoffman Joan Fitzmaurice Mr. & Mrs. George M. Galpin Peter & Peggy Horvitz Eliza Flug G. Keith & Naomi Grim Dr. Joe G. Norman, Jr. Susan E. Foster & Maurice J. Pirio Estate of Margaret T. Hawkes Estate of Althea Stroum William Franklin Estate of Mary S. Helmick Arlene A. Wright Estate of Merrill Gerstel John* & Marli Iverson The Bagley Wright Fund Mr. & Mrs. James S. Griffin Estate of Ralph C. Jacobson Anonymous David & Cheryl Hadley Craig & Karen Kennedy Mike & Janet Halvorson Lee Kraft Cressman & Paul R. Cressman $250,000–$499,999 Ross Hartling, MD & Johnese Spisso Joan T. Lasersohn Jane & Robert Cremin Cathi & Ken Hatch Patricia & Wilfrid Loeken Mr. & Mrs. William* J. Dunn Catherine Hobi Hawes Keith & Mary McCaw Family Foundation Estate of Gerard L. Hanauer Luke & Gail Helms Estate of Nancy Nuckols Keefe Glenn Kawasaki David F. Hill & Barbara M. Hyland-Hill Estate of Beatrice R. Olson Estate of Helen C. Kloess Kalen & Sean Holmes Lea Anne & Randall Ottinger Estate of Gloria Peck-Neils Moe & Susan Krabbe PNB Stars James A. Kraft & Dominique Posy Paula Rose* $150,000–$249,999 Firoz & Najma Lalji George* & Nelly Sofer Carl & Renee Behnke Dr. Frank & Lynn Lindsay Craig Tall Laurie A. Griffith Michael & Barbara Malone Estate of David Wagoner William Randolph Hearst Foundation Marcella McCaffray Anonymous Anonymous Audrey McCoy *Deceased $100,000–$149,999 MCM a Meisenbach Company Carol & Paul Neiman Patrice & Kevin Auld Laura J. Peterson Jane M. & David R. Davis The following named funds have been created in the In honor of our parents, Sheffield & Patricia Phelps Aya Stark Hamilton PNB Endowment: James & Sherry Raisbeck Jeremy & Jacqueline Jaech Sharon Richardson Louise Nadeau Endowed Fund Henry & Mary Ann James Dr. Mack & Susan Richey Patricia Barker Endowed Scholarship Fund Spencer A. Johnson & Braiden Rex-Johnson John & Sarah Rindlaub William Randolph Hearst Foundation Endowed Education H. David Kaplan, In Memory of Dr. Stanley M. Pier Mrs. John S. Robinson* & Outreach Fund Travis & Suzanne Keeler Jan Rogers Frank Hobi Endowed Scholarship Fund Catherine S. Leschen Jon & Judy Runstad Benjamin Houk Scholarship for Young Men The Norcliffe Foundation John Charles & Mary R. Sellen-Klinker Lucinda Hughey Endowed Scholarship Fund Mr. & Mrs. Tom A. Puentes Jan & Jim Sinegal Kreielsheimer Artistic Development Fund Rick & Jennifer Redman Estate of Phillip Soth Jane McConnell Scholarship John F. & Julia P. Shaw Delphine & Charles Stevens Patricia Phelps Endowed Scholarship Fund Allen & Kathleen Shoup John Stokes & Laurie McDonald Janet Reed Scholarship Fund Kayla Skinner Harry C. & Joan Stonecipher Frankie Ladley Wakefield Endowment for Ballet Education- Sophie Sussman* Kent Stowell & Francia Russell al Programs Anonymous Dr. Michael & Peggy Swistak Arlene A. Wright DanceChance Endowment Fund Carmen Elizabeth Delo Endowed Fund for Education & $50,000–$99,999 Doug & Janet True Toby & Linda Warson Outreach Chap & Eve Alvord Richard L. Weisman Laurie A. Griffith Endowed Scholarship Fund Apex Foundation Albrecht Widmann & Kenneth Barlow Helen Kloess Endowed Scholarship Fund Robert M. Arnold* Wyman Youth Trust Catherine S. Leschen Endowed Scholarship Fund Estate of Edward S. Brignall Leslie & Tachi Yamada Alexis Phelps Dancers’ Support Endowed Fund Estate of Evangeline Edwards Anonymous (3) Dr. Stanley M. Pier Endowed Scholarship Fund Estate of Erma Erickson Tom & Gretchen Puentes Endowed Scholarship Fund Jane Erskine* $15,000–$24,999 Paula Rose Endowed Scholarship Fund Reed & Maren Erskine Alex* & Norma Cugini The Althea Stroum Production Fund Mrs. Paul S. Friedlander* Barry & JoAnn Forman Spencer A. Johnson & Braiden Rex-Johnson Principal Robin Gainey & Jerry Sanford, Jr., In Memory of Ruth & Bill Gerberding Dancers’ Endowed Fund Jerome G. Sanford, Sr. Dr. Hellmut & Marcy Golde Northwest Endowed Fund

26 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET Corporate, Foundation, and Government Sponsors

Pacific Northwest Ballet applauds the following corporations, foundations, agencies, and government institutions for their commitment to enrich the cultural life of our community through support of PNB. Their generosity provides vital funding needed to fulfill PNB’s mission of artistic excellence, innovation, and creativity along with dance education and wide-reaching community programs.

2017-2018 SEASON SPONSORS

SEASON PARTNERS

THE HEARST FOUNDATIONS

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

Nesholm Family Foundation

JOHN GRAHAM FOUNDATION

$200,000 & Above $25,000-$49,999 scan|design Foundation by Kelly Foundation of Washington ArtsFund Chateau Ste. Michelle* Inger & Jens Bruun Kilpatrick Townsend & KOMO 4* Freed of London Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Stockton LLP The Seattle Times* Grousemont Foundation Wells Fargo KUOW 94.9 Public Radio* The Wallace Foundation The Jerome Robbins Foundation Macy’s John Graham Foundation $2,500-$9,999 MaxMara $100,000-$199,999 Nesholm Family Foundation Aetna Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Alaska Airlines Providence St. Joseph Health Alabastro Photography* Neiman Marcus The Boeing Company SAVOR* Alaska Airlines* Northern Trust Office of Arts & Culture|Seattle U.S. Bank Amazon Professional Claims Intervention Perkins Coie LLP* Ben Bridge Jeweler* Services PricewaterhouseCoopers* $10,000-$24,999 Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Seattle Rotary Service Foundation The Shubert Foundation ArtsWA Foundation Skanska Bank of America Byron & Alice Lockwood Talking Rain* $50,000-$99,999 Dilettante Chocolates* Foundation Ten Mercer* 4Culture Harvest Foundation Chris Graves Music* Anonymous The Hearst Foundations Jean K. Lafromboise Foundation City of Bellevue Microsoft Corporation JPMorgan Chase & Co. CliftonLarsonAllen LLP* $1,000-$2,499 National Endowment for the Arts Lane Powell PC Creag Foundation Bossa in Wonderland* Seattle Foundation MacDonald Hoague & Bayless* Delta Dental Crimson Haze Event Lighting* Snoqualmie Indian Tribe Moss Adams LLP* Fales Foundation Trust Harold L. Wyman Foundation Starbucks Coffee Company* Northwest Danish Association Freed of London* Servco Pacific Insurance Anonymous Perkins Coie LLP Goldman, Sachs & Co. Anonymous *In-Kind Support

PREFERRED PROVIDERS

encoreartsseattle.com 27 PNB Dancers / PRINCIPALS

Karel Cruz William Lin-Yee Seth Orza Havana, Cuba. Corps de ballet 2002, San Francisco, California. Corps de ballet San Francisco, California. Corps de ballet in 2007, soloist in 2007, principal in 2009. in 2008, soloist in 2014, principal in 2016. soloist in 2008, principal in 2010.

Lindsi Dec* James Moore Noelani Pantastico* Fairfax, Virginia. Apprentice in 2001, corps de San Francisco, California. Corps de ballet Oahu, Hawaii. Apprentice in 1997, corps de ballet in ballet in 2002, soloist in 2009, principal in 2014. in 2004, soloist in 2008, principal in 2013. 1998, soloist in 2001, principal in 2004 and 2015.

Rachel Foster Elizabeth Murphy* Jonathan Porretta Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Corps de ballet in 2002, Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Corps de ballet in 2011, Totowa, New Jersey. Apprentice in 1999, corps de soloist in 2008, principal in 2011. soloist in 2014, principal in 2015. ballet 2000, soloist in 2002, principal in 2005.

Benjamin Griffiths* Sarah Ricard Orza Lucien Postlewaite* Boise, Idaho. Corps de ballet in 2005, Amherst, Massachusetts. Corps de ballet in 2007, Santa Cruz, California. Apprentice in 2003, soloist in 2008, principal in 2016. soloist in 2010, principal in 2017. corps de ballet in 2004, soloist in 2007, principal in 2008 and 2017.

Learn more about the artists of Pacific Northwest Ballet 28 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET *Indicates training with Pacific Northwest Ballet School. by visiting PNB.org. SOLOISTS

Lesley Rausch* Leta Biasucci Leah Merchant* Columbus, Ohio. Corps de ballet in 2001, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Corps de ballet Mobile, Alabama. Apprentice in 2007, soloist in 2007, principal in 2011. in 2011, soloist in 2014. corps de ballet in 2008, soloist in 2016.

Jerome Tisserand Kyle Davis* Margaret Mullin* Lyon, France. Corps de ballet in 2007, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Apprentice in 2008, Tucson, Arizona. Apprentice in 2008, soloist in 2012, principal in 2014. corps de ballet in 2009, soloist in 2016. corps de ballet in 2009, soloist in 2014.

Laura Tisserand* Angelica Generosa* Matthew Renko Hammond, Louisiana. Apprentice in 2003, South River, New Jersey. Apprentice in Sumter, South Carolina. corps de ballet in 2004, soloist in 2010, 2011, corps de ballet in 2012, soloist in 2016. Corps de ballet in 2011, soloist in 2016. principal in 2014.

Joshua Grant* Ezra Thomson* Niceville, Florida. Corps de ballet in San Bernardino, California. Apprentice in 2009, 2001–2004 and 2011, soloist in 2015. corps de ballet in 2010, soloist in 2017.

The dancers of Pacific Northwest Ballet are members of AGMA — the American Guild of Musical Artist, AFL-CIO. Pacific Northwest Ballet School Professional Division students perform courtesy of AGMA. Headshot photography by Lindsay Thomas. encoreartsseattle.com 29 CORPS de BALLET

Madison Rayn Abeo* Henry Cotton* Elle Macy* Miles Pertl* Seattle, Washington. Portland, Oregon. Corps de ballet Huntington Beach, California. Seattle, Washington. Corps de ballet Apprentice in 2016, corps de ballet in 2017. in 2015. Apprentice in 2012, corps de ballet in 2013. in 2015.

Guillaume Basso Dammiel Cruz* Angeli Mamon* Christian Poppe* Dijon, France. Corps de ballet in 2015. New York, New York. Apprentice in 2016, Seattle, Washington. Apprentice in 2015, Lake Stevens, Washington. Apprentice corps de ballet in 2016. corps de ballet in 2016. in 2013, corps de ballet in 2014.

Ryan Cardea* Cecilia Iliesiu Amanda Morgan* Nicole Rizzitano* New York, New York. Apprentice in New York, New York. Tacoma, Washington. Apprentice in 2016, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Apprentice in 2009, corps de ballet in 2010. Corps de ballet in 2015. corps de ballet in 2017. 2014, corps de ballet in 2015.

Nancy Casciano* Steven Loch* Sarah Pasch* Calista Ruat Decatur, Georgia. Apprentice in 2014, Denton County, Texas. Apprentice in Dublin, California. Apprentice in 2011, Paris, France. Corps de ballet in 2017. corps de ballet in 2015. 2011, corps de ballet in 2012. corps de ballet in 2012.

30 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET Listen to the Ballet on KING FM 98.1!

Pacific Northwest Ballet partners with Classical KING FM 98.1 to bring listeners performances by the acclaimed PNB Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan* Madison Taylor* Orchestra, live from McCaw Hall. Featuring Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Apprentice Gig Harbor, Washington. Corps de ballet in 2016, corps de ballet in 2017. in 2015. some of the most popular ballet scores of all time, PNB’s 2017-2018 on-air season includes broadcasts of Jewels on Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm; George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker ® on Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 7:30 pm; and Kent Stowell’s Swan Lake on Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 7:30 pm. Join us when he curtain goes up at 7:30 pm on Classic KING FM 98.1, or online at www.king.org/listen.

Carli Samuelson* Leah Terada* Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania. Dallas, Texas. Apprentice in 2015, Corps de ballet in 2008. corps de ballet in 2016. WELCOME TEENS!

WONDERING WHO THAT YOUNG Emma Love Suddarth* Dylan Wald* Wichita, Kansas. Apprentice in 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Apprentice BALLET-GOER IS, SITTING IN THAT corps de ballet in 2009. in 2014, corps de ballet in 2015. SEAT NEXT TO YOU? They could very well be a member of TEENTIX. Since the inception of this arts access program for teenagers, Pacific

APPRENTICE Northwest Ballet has been a proud and passionate participant. TEENTIX members may purchase day-of-show tickets to music, dance, theater, and arts events for only $5.

For more information, visit TEENTIX.org Price Suddarth* Christopher D’Ariano* Westfield, Indiana. Apprentice in 2010, Yonkers, New York. Apprentice in 2017. corps de ballet in 2011.

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