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OFFICERS Executive Director Chairman – David Hadley 3 President – Joan Fitzmaurice Treasurer – Maria Mackey Dear Friends, Dear Friends, Secretary – Lynn Lindsay Assistant Secretary – Lynne Graybeal Assistant Secretary – H. David Kaplan Welcome to Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Welcome to PNB’s Immediate Past Chairman – Aya Hamilton 2 3 Chairman Emeritus – Sheffield Phelps2 3 * FESTIVAL. ArtsFund new season! We is proud to support Pacific Northwest Ballet love this time of COMMITTEE CHAIRS and its outstanding performances, year, when we’re Education – Jon Conte Board Development – Gail James community events, and education back in the Marketing & Public Relations – Sara Jones programs. Since 1970, we have invested of performances Leadership – Peter Horvitz 2 3 Major Gifts – Peter Horvitz 2 3 nearly $8 million in operating grants to and other events Foundation Board Chairman – Peter Horvitz 2 3 PNB, and we are honored to sponsor the and opportunities to meet our diverse

EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES exciting 2018-2019 season. community of ballet-goers. Thank you for Artistic Director – Peter Boal 1 For nearly 50 years, ArtsFund has being among them. As you may know, PNB Executive Director – Ellen Walker 1 championed the role of the arts in building spent the first part of July as the featured Young Patrons Circle – Jon Shepherd 1 Parents Association – Jennifer Gaines 1 healthy communities. This October, company at Les Étés de la Danse festival PNB STARS – Alesha Shemwell 1 ArtsFund will be releasing an innovative in Paris. Made possible by our festival

GOVERNING BOARD OF TRUSTEES new report documenting the social impacts partners and generous individual donors, Donna Barnett Frederick W. McDonald of the arts. In this study, we examine the performances were absolutely stunning. It Carl Behnke 2 Carol Neiman benefits arts confer on youth development was striking to witness Parisian audiences Susan Brotman 2 Susan Okamoto Sue Buske Gwendolyn C. Payton & education, health & wellness, and encounter PNB dancers for the first time. Jerald Farley Betty Pirnat neighborhood vitality. PNB’s work both They were floored. More than one person Stephen E. Fuhs Mac Powell Susan Grinstein Tom A. Puentes on and off the stage exemplifies the remarked that Seattle is very, very lucky to William Grinstein James Raisbeck positive impacts arts have throughout our be home to this Company. Indeed, we are. W. Daniel Heidt 2 Barbara Ries Kalen Holmes Catherine Ries communities, and ArtsFund’s support helps In August, I passed the thirty-year Toni Hoover Vivian Schwab makes this work possible. mark as an arts administrator in this city. Christy Jones Elizabeth Stokes ArtsFund envisions a community As a Seattle native, I grew up taking our April Kieburtz Shannon Tierney Dan Kingston Aimee Truchard with a dynamic and world-class arts remarkable cultural community for granted, Wendy Kizzier Natasha Lalji Verjee and cultural sector where the arts are assuming that high civic value around arts Alex Lange Connie Walsh Terrel Lefferts Jodi Wong accessible to all and valued as central and and culture would always be at the top of Josh Lieberman Leslie Yamada critical to a healthy society. Thank you for the story Seattle tells about itself. Now, our region faces so many competing priorities ADVISORY BOARD OF TRUSTEES strengthening our community through your Marleen Alhadeff Pamela Johnson support of the arts. that some of this topline narrative has been Mariana Ancira Glenn Kawasaki lost. Like many businesses in Seattle, we Courtney Bear Megan Kirley Elisabeth Bodal Rocke Koreis Enjoy the show! employ as much economy and creativity Sue Buske Candy J. Lee as we can to ensure that our revenues keep Barbara Chaplin Helene Mawyer Cheryl Clark Arnold Ness pace with dramatically rising costs. Our Brooke de Boutray Alida Oles commitment to accessibility and inclusion Margaret Dell’Osso Kristin Pastoriza precludes that transfer this burden Elizabeth Dougherty Mimi Richards Patricia Edwards Alesha Shemwell Mari Horita Anthony Miles to our ticket buyers, so we work very hard Sharon Falkner Mel Sturman President & CEO Chair-Elect, to broaden our base of donors at every Becky Figueroa Peggy Swistak Kathy Alvord Gerlich Christina Tanner Board of Trustees level. If you’re not among this important Stacy Graves Jennifer Thompson constituency I hope you’ll consider a Adiel Guinzburg Deidra Wager CathyBeth Hooper Lisa Wahbe contribution to our operating fund. I Jill Jackson Kathryn Wickham promise you, we’ll use your investment wisely and with conscience. Our Paris TRUSTEES EMERITI Norma Cugini* Jane McConnell tour was a powerful reminder of just how Jane M. Davis* Joe Norman 3 extraordinarily fortunate we are in Seattle Wendy Griffin2 Rick Redman Cathi Hatch 2 Francia Russell to be home to this world-class Company. Travis Keeler 3 Kent Stowell Thank you for being here with us today and, 2 Arthur H. Mazzola Carol Wright from all of us at PNB, thank you for the role BOARD OF TRUSTEES LIFE FELLOWS you play in helping us thrive. Patty Barrier Dr. Susan Lindsay Kay Baxter Maria Postnikoff-Downing Robert R. Braun, Jr. Marsha Rich Ingham Warm regards, Ron Elgin Sharon Richardson 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 Ellen Walker, Executive Director Jim Judson* Pacific Northwest Ballet

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As part of the Festival, we proudly celebrate the hits and “masterpieces, while simultaneously examining the individual behind the art, warts and all. Understanding the man further informs the creative genius.

© nycdanceproject.com ” at about 5’8”, jerome robbins was a lectures, panel discussions, writings, and a an extraordinary level of expertise, artistry, truly towering figure in ballet. I know documentary, we look at how a somewhat and experience to these performances. he was 5’8” because he frequently tortured artist grappled with success, I was lucky to have a wonderfully close challenged me to height contests when sexuality, doubt, and mistrust of his talent relationship with Jerome Robbins. Aside we’d find ourselves in the same elevator throughout his career. Notorious as a task from the elevator and the hallway, it was or hallway. Only 5’7” when I first joined master, he often found himself without limited to the studio and the stage, but it Ballet, I managed to crest friends or respect from peers. He was spanned 22 years, starting when I appeared at 5’9” a few years later. Needless to say, also fiercely loyal and deeply affected by as Cupid in as a ten-year-old. as Jerry shrank, I became the winner. those he loved. As part of the Festival, we At the dawn of this Festival, my thoughts But in reputation, reach, influence, and proudly celebrate the hits and masterpieces, are with someone who had an even closer innovation, few could compare to one while simultaneously examining the relationship: Aidan Mooney (1942-2016). of the most beguiling and successful individual behind the art, warts and all. He was a friend in the deepest sense. He choreographers of the 20th century. Understanding the man further informs was supportive to Jerry as admirer and Jerome Rabinowitz was born on the creative genius. We are privileged to be advocate, but equally enthusiastic in his October 11, 1918, on the surrounded by several first-hand experts. willingness to oppose and confront. He of . His parents immigrated to Isabelle Guérin, one of the great etoiles of had the power to console, to empower, America from Poland, eventually finding the Paris Opera, worked intimately with to restore laughter, and to get Jerry back opportunity with Jerry’s uncle, who owned Jerry when guesting with New York City on track. Perhaps every great artist or a corset company in Weehawken, New Ballet and during Jerry’s frequent visits to individual has an Aidan. As we place Jerome Jersey. The family’s chosen business venture Paris. She has graciously shared insights Robbins’ name in a rightful spotlight, held no interest for Jerry, who longed for a as a performer and as a friend in her staging I would like to dedicate the Festival to world of summer stock and spirited dance of Other . Bart Cook was somewhat another who never claimed the spotlight, numbers. Leaving undergarments behind, of a muse for Robbins at New York City but always delivered the first “Bravo.” he followed his passion, bouncing (literally) Ballet. He was also one of my most valued from show to show as dancer or as fledgling coaches, teaching me the role of Opus 19/ dance-maker, working with everyone The Dreamer, among many others. He from choreographer to returns to PNB to restage Afternoon of a hoofer . Broadway might have Faun. was a favorite of Peter Boal claimed the young hit-maker if it hadn’t Robbins for numerous roles and new been for an invitation from Balanchine to creations. She stages with her join a new venture known as the New York trademark sophistication and sensitivity. City Ballet. Jerry signed up as both dancer and shared and periodic choreographer, discovering responsibility for the clear and thoughtful a new and permanent artistic home. staging of what many consider to be My predecessors, Kent Stowell and Robbins’ true masterpiece, Dances Francia Russell, started acquiring works at a Gathering. In it we see the world For more information about by Robbins in 1984. With many additions through the simple steps of one man, over the past decade, PNB has now built a glance from one dancer to another, a JEROME ROBBINS FESTIVAL an impressive collection. All in, we’ve done palm on the earth, the lilt of a limb, or contributing artists, Maria Calegari, 12 of the choreographer’s works, offering the sound of a faraway tempest brewing Bart Cook, Isabelle Guérin, seven as part of the Jerome Robbins on the ivory keys of the piano. Robbins Festival. His work not only entertains, saw humanity through the clearest lens Jenifer Ringer, and Philip Neal, but demands reflection and often lingers and held it up for us like a mirror. please visit: long after the curtain descends. A word of appreciation for our three PNB.org/season/robbins-festival The man is no less interesting than pianists: Cameron Grant, Mark Salman, the choreographer. Through a series of and Christina Siemens, each of whom brings

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encoremediagroup.com/programs 7 Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance By Deborah Jowitt Jerome Robbins was never easy to pin down—in his work or in his life. He could rip dancers apart when he was mired down in his choreographic process or take the time to comfort one of them in trouble.

When ideas were pouring out of him, he often failed to notice that he was exhausting his cast. Demanding, shy, vindictive, insecure, unpredictable, he could also be witty and loving. Yet performers yearned to work with him, whether in one of the many musicals he choreographed and sometimes directed or in his . The word “genius” was frequently Jerome Robbins rehearsing dancers for West Side Story in 1957. © . attached to his name. He could also be impulsive. In 1948, entranced by George Balanchine’s Symphony in tunic and tights, entered to practice in a He built his ballet around the fantasies in C as performed by the New York City room she assumed was empty. that compositions by Frédéric could Ballet—especially by the marvelous The pas de deux into which these two awaken in listeners, but the onstage pianist 19-year-old in its second drifted was—is— remarkable in that the (later joined by the orchestra) has more movement—he, then thirty years old, asked so-called “fourth wall” of the stage becomes to contend with than playing the music. Balanchine and executive director Lincoln their mirror. Gazing into it, the two consider Costumed uniformly in pale blue tights and Kirstein whether he could join their company. and refine their moves. In the end, when he leotards and distinguished from one another He would choreograph, he would dance… plants a chaste kiss on her cheek, she looks by headgear, eyeglasses, ties, collars, etc., the whatever they needed. Aware that Robbins’s at him, then turns back to the “mirror” and performers begin by creating a mini-ballet largely dramatic “American” ballets, such as touches her hand to the place his lips have out of finding and changing chairs. The (made for Ballet Theatre in 1944), pressed, as if she needs its confirmation for hen-pecked husband that Robbins created for could balance Balanchine’s largely plotless that too. Then she leaves the studio, and he keeps a cigar clamped between ones, they said yes. goes back to sleep. his teeth. The LeClercq character’s dream A year later, he was partnering LeClercq When Robbins created The Concert (or, involves trying on ever more improbable hats. in the master choreographer’s Bourrée The Perils of Everybody) three years later, Le Yet, especially during the music nicknamed Fantasque, and in 1953, he choreographed Clercq had become Balanchine’s third wife the “Raindrop Prelude,” Robbins also sneaked Afternoon of a Faun for her. His ballet riffed (she loved Jerry, she told him, but she was in pathos into his hilarious comedy, this time off Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1912 L’Après-midi d’un love with George). Few ballet choreographers involving umbrellas and follow-the-herd Faun, but although Robbins used Claude have created funny works, but Robbins had tendencies. Debussy’s delicate music of that name, he honed his comedic sense on Broadway, and 1956 was also the year in which LeClercq, dispensed with nymphs and Grecian tunics; Le Clercq and her fellow cast members rose whom Robbins thought of as his muse, dancer did not wear horns to the challenge. The Concert had its roots in succumbed to polio and never danced again. and a spotted outfit, but was garbed in black an idea about Christmas shopping with which Their “ballet” thereafter was one of letters tights. When the curtain went up, he was Robbins had been toying (department stores and gifts and visits. He didn’t choreograph napping in a dance studio, suggested only by a sometimes offered short concerts in rooms anything for NYCB until 1969. barre and Jean Rosenthal’s filmy see-through where weary shoppers could rest and listen to In the intervening years, he had walls and sunny-afternoon lighting. LeClercq, piano music). choreographed and/or directed plays and

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Jerome Robbins (1918–1998) musicals, among them , West Side stars; a chandelier hung over one duet. These is world-renowned Jerome Robbins: Story, , and . He had people too may be at a party, but each man for his work as a toured Europe with his own company, Ballets: and woman dance together alone. Those in the choreographer U.S.A., between 1958 and 1962, countering first couple are young, just discovering love. of ballets as well By Deborah Jowitt Cold War tensions with American vigor and The second pair has settled into a relationship, as a director ingenuity. And, courtesy of the just-founded as if they’ve been married for a while. The and choreographer in theater, movies, and A Life in Dance National Endowment for the Arts, he had third two are passionately at odds—she even television. Although he began as a modern spent 1966 through 1968, sequestered almost melodramatic—but unable to live without dancer, his start on Broadway was as a chorus every day (except during summers) with the each other. All three couples come together dancer before joining the corps de ballet of chosen and dancers in his American only at the end, politely and briefly. Ballet Theatre in 1939, where he went on to Theater Laboratory, working with them on a was created six years later for dance principal roles in the works of Fokine, variety of challenging and innovative projects. a gala to benefit the Library for the Performing Tudor, Massine, Balanchine, Lichine, and de And yet, during the last weeks of ATL, he Arts at Lincoln Center. Dancing this time Mille. His first ballet, Fancy Free (1944), made had found himself wanting more and more to to Chopin and were two for Ballet Theatre, is still in many repertoires. focus on simply dancing to music, and in late defectors from Russia’s Kirov Ballet: Natalia While embarking on his career in the theater, 1968, he made a second impulsive proposal to Makarova and —she Mr. Robbins simultaneously created ballets for (NYCB), which he Kirstein. Kirstein responded that, yes, he and now affiliated with American Ballet Theater, joined in 1949, and became an Associate Balanchine would be delighted to have Jerry he with New York City Ballet. Other Dances Artistic Director with George Balanchine. Mr. come to New York City Ballet and do whatever might well have migrated from Dances at a Robbins has directed for television and film as Gathering, beginning as it did with this stellar he wished. Since Chopin’s were well, with his co-direction and inching back into Robbins’s soul, he decided to pair simply strolling hand in hand along of West Side Story winning him two Academy begin by choreographing a pas de deux for two diagonal path. Hints of Slavic steps mix with Awards. After his Broadway triumph with New York City Ballet dancers he had coached classical ones as the two carry on what might Fiddler on the Roof (1964), Mr. Robbins in Afternoon of a Faun. Patricia McBride and be an affectionate conversation; even virtuosic continued creating ballets for NYCB and Edward Villella were warmed up and waiting moments seem outbursts of emotion. shared the position of Ballet-Master-in-Chief for him when he walked into the studio. Robbins was fully at home in NYCB, with from 1983 until 1989. He So began , an hour sharing the title of Ballet Master with choreographed more than 60 ballets, including of ravishing dancing to Chopin waltzes, Balanchine, when , a longtime Afternoon of a Faun (1953), The Concert (1956), mazurkas, and etudes, played on a piano friend and colleague of Balanchine’s, died. Les Noces (1965), Dances at a Gathering (1969), set at the side of the stage apron. Robbins For the 1972 Stravinsky Festival, Balanchine, In the Night (1970), (1975), Other returned to ballet a subtler artist, one who Robbins, and five other choreographers Dances (1976), (1983), and Ives, wished to make even the most difficult steps created ballets to his music. Circus , Songs (1989) which are in the repertory of look natural, even effortless. Who would have one of Robbins’s choices, was set to a short NYCB, , and major dance imagined that this most astutely theatrical piece that Stravinsky had written in 1942 for companies throughout the world. His final choreographer would begin his ballet with show girls and elephants in Ringling Brothers, ballets include A with Mikhail Baryshnikov (1994), 2 3 Part Inventions (1994), a meditative solo for Villella in which the Barnum and Bailey’s circus. Robbins as & (1995), and dancer’s back is almost always toward the Ringmaster instead cracked his whip over (1996), all of which premiered at NYCB. audience? He also suggested to hordes of little girls, each squad of which was that, in her moment alone onstage, she should tinier than the previous one. In retrospect, In addition to his two , think of rediscovering how she used to dance. you can think of the ballet as encapsulating Mr. Robbins awards and citations include He told his ten dancers to imagine returning Robbins at work: demanding perfection, four , five , to a place they had once known well. creating miracles, and loving his job. two Emmy Awards, the Screen Directors’ In Dances at a Gathering, tender or He also liked challenging the dancers at Guild Award, and the New York Drama rapturous or playful duets appear and New York City Ballet. In 1995, he transported Critics Circle Award. He was a 1981 Kennedy disappear without expressing lovers- to the company material from the great 1957 Center Honors recipient, was awarded forever commitments. A woman’s summer West Side Story, which he had condensed in the Commandeur de L’Order des Arts et ramble temporarily attracts one or another 1989 for Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. Here were des Lettres, is an honorary member of the daydreaming man who strolls by. Five people these highly disciplined ballet dancers playing American Academy and Institute of Arts and choose to join in the same pattern; only when tough, mean-streets teenagers (Robbins told Letters, was awarded a National Medal of it’s almost over does a woman arrive to be them to invent characters and backgrounds for Arts as well as the Governor’s Arts Awards the odd man out’s partner. You imagine a themselves). The guys in West Side Story Suite by the New York State Council on the Arts, party being held outdoors on the grounds had to wear sneakers, the women high-heeled and was also awarded the French Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur. of a fine house, where the guests pose as if shoes. They had to sing, to slouch, to rough up Some of his Broadway shows include On for a photograph, or stop dancing to watch their technique a bit. They didn’t all love the the Town, , High Button something pass across the sky. process, but they went for it. Today’s dancers are primed for the undertaking. Jerry would Shoes, West Side Story, , Gypsy, The ballet thrilled audiences who attended Peter Pan, , , have loved that. the New York State Theater on May 22, 1969. and Fiddler on the Roof. In 1989, Jerome Balanchine and Kirstein were delighted. Robbins’ Broadway won six Tony Awards, Robbins had come home. In late September, including Best Musical and Best Director. he began work on another piano ballet, Deborah Jowitt wrote for The Village Voice for In the Night, this time choosing Chopin several decades; her dance criticism now appears —night music—and setting three at artsjournal.com/dancebeat. Her books include Photo: Jerome Robbins. © Jesse Gerstein. duets to them. The lighting design suggested Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance. Courtesy of the Jerome Robbins Foundation Program Notes Other Dances MUSIC: Igor Stravinsky (Circus Polka: MUSIC: Frederic Chopin (Mazurka, Op. 17, no. For a Young Elephant, 1942) 4, 1832–1833; Mazurka, Op. 41, no. 3, 1839; CHOREOGRAPHY: Jerome Robbins , Op. 64, no. 3, 1847; Mazurka, Op. STAGING: Judith Fugate 63, no. 2, 1846; Mazurka Op. 33, no. 2, 1837–1838) PREMIERE: June 21, 1972; New York City Ballet (Stravinsky Festival) CHOREOGRAPHY: Jerome Robbins PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PREMIERE: September 16, STAGING: Isabelle Guérin 2006 COSTUME DESIGN: LIGHTING DESIGN: , recreated by The 2006 Pacific Northwest Ballet Randall G. Chiarelli premiere of Jerome Robbins’ Circus Polka PREMIERE: May 9, 1976; Gala benefit for the New York was generously underwritten by Marcella Public Library for the Performing Arts McCaffray. PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PREMIERE: September 21, 2018

The 2018 Pacific Northwest Ballet premiere of “Stravinsky’s Circus Polka was composed Jerome Robbins’ Other Dances is generously precisely for the circus—for the Ringling underwritten by Marcella McCaffray. Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus in 1942. Lesley Rausch and Jerome Tisserand with The circus impresarios wanted to do a ballet (background) James Moore in rehearsal for for elephants. I telephoned [Stravinsky], Afternoon of a Faun. © Lindsay Thomas. Other Dances was created especially for a gala not giving away the whole story. ‘What kind benefit for the Library of the Performing Arts of music?’ he asked. ‘A polka,’ I said. ‘For fascinated by the music of Chopin. It keeps at Lincoln Center. The program notes for that whom?’ he wanted to know. ‘Elephants.’ opening up avenues for me, so there is more occasion read: ‘How old?’ ‘Young!’ ‘Okay, if they are very to come.” “The title of this series of dances reflects young, I’ll do it.’” —George Balanchine their relationship to Jerome Robbins’ Dances Balanchine’s ballet for “Fifty Elephants Afternoon of at a Gathering. There was so much of Chopin’s and Fifty Beautiful Girls” was performed music that Mr. Robbin’s wishes to choreograph 425 times. In 1972, Jerome Robbins created a Faun that he used this opportunity to devise for a new ballet to Stravinsky’s music, this Miss [Natalia] Makarova and Mr. [Mikhail] MUSIC: (Prelude a l’Après- time for 48 young dance students and a Baryshnikov these Other Dances—a waltz and midi d’un Faune, 1892–94) Ringmaster. Robbins’ short ballet ends with four mazurkas.” a floor pattern that spells out either the CHOREOGRAPHY: Jerome Robbins composer’s initials, I.S., or another anagram STAGING: Bart Cook or number befitting the particular occasion. SCENIC AND LIGHTING DESIGN: Jean Rosenthal West Side Story COSTUME DESIGN: Suite PREMIERE: May 14, 1953; New York City Ballet In the Night PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PREMIERE: May 11, 1978, MUSIC: (“Prologue,” MUSIC: Frederic Chopin (Nocturne, Op. 27, no. performed by guest artists from New York City “Something’s Coming,” “Dance at the 1, 1835; Nocturne, Op. 55, nos. 1 & 2, 1843; Ballet; November 4, 2011, staged for Pacific Gym,” “Cool,” “America,” “Rumble,” and Nocturne, Op. 9, no. 2, 1830–31) Northwest Ballet “Somewhere Ballet,” from West Side Story, 1957) CHOREOGRAPHY: Jerome Robbins LYRICS: STAGING: Maria Calegari The 2011 addition of Jerome Robbins’ CHOREOGRAPHY: Jerome Robbins with COSTUME DESIGN: Afternoon of a Faun to the Pacific Northwest Ballet repertory was made Peter Genarro COSTUME DESIGN SUPERVISOR: Holly Hynes possible by H. David Kaplan. STAGING: Robert LaFosse and Jenifer Ringer LIGHTING DESIGN: Jennifer Tipton, recreated VOCAL COACHING: Joan Barber by Randall G. Chiarelli SCENIC DESIGN: PREMIERE: January 29, 1970; New York City Ballet Debussy’s music, Prelude a l’Après-midi SCENIC SUPERVISION: Rosaria Sinisi PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PREMIERE: September 22, d’un Faune, was composed between 1892 and 2005 1894. It was inspired by a poem of Mallarme’s COSTUME DESIGN: Irene Sharaff LIGHTING DESIGN: Jennifer Tipton, recreated by Set to four Chopin nocturnes, solo which was begun in 1876. The poem Randall G. Chiarelli piano pieces to be played in the evening, describes the reveries of a faun around a PREMIERE: May 18, 1995; New York City Ballet In the Night explores three stages of the love real or imagined encounter with nymphs. In PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PREMIERE: March 12, 2009 relationship—tender young love, mature and 1912, Vaslav Nijinsky presented his famous balanced love, and fiery, passionate love—in ballet, drawing his ideas from many sources, three extended pas de deux. In addition to including Greek sculpture and painting. The 2009 Pacific Northwest Ballet premiere The Concert (1956), Jerome Robbins made This pas de deux, choreographed by Jerome of Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story Suite three ballets set to solo piano music by Robbins, is a variation on these themes. It was generously underwritten by Marcella Chopin: Dances at a Gathering (1969), In was first performed in 1953 by New York City McCaffray, Lyndall Boal, Carl & Renee the Night (1970) and Other Dances (1976). Ballet and is dedicated to Tanaquil Le Clercq, Behnke, and Aya Stark Hamilton. Discussing In the Night, he stated, “I’m still for whom the ballet was choreographed. cont. on page 12 10 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET

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1831; Mazurka, Op. 56, no. 2, 1843; Etude, CHOREOGRAPHY: Jerome Robbins Op. 25, no. 4, 1835–1837?; Waltz, Op. STAGING: Judith Fugate 34, no. 1, 1835–1838; Waltz, Op. 70, no. SCENIC DESIGN: 2, 1841; Etude, Op 25, no. 5, 1835–1837?; COSTUME DESIGN: Irene Sharaff Etude, Op. 10, no. 2, 1829–1832; Scherzo, LIGHTING DESIGN: Jennifer Tipton, recreated by Op. 20, 1831/1834; Nocturne, Op. 15, no. 1, recreated by Randall G. Chiarelli 1830–1833) PREMIERE: March 6, 1956; New York City Ballet CHOREOGRAPHY: Jerome Robbins PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PREMIERE: September 15, STAGING: Philip Neal and Jenifer Ringer 2007 COSTUME DESIGN: Joe Eula LIGHTING DESIGN: Jennifer Tipton, recreated The 2007 Pacific Northwest Ballet premiere by Randall G. Chiarelli of Jerome Robbins’ The Concert (or, PREMIERE: May 22, 1969; New York City Ballet The Perils of Everybody) was generously PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PREMIERE: May 28, 2009 underwritten by Ernest & Diane Burgess and Noelani Pantastico in rehearsal for Other Dances. Glenn Kawasaki. © Lindsay Thomas. The 2009 Pacific Northwest Ballet premiere of Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering With a book written by , was generously underwritten by Jeffrey* & Choreographer Jerome Robbins wrote: music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Susan Brotman. “One of the pleasures of attending a concert Stephen Sondheim, and choreography is the freedom to lose oneself in listening to by Jerome Robbins, the musical West the music. Quite often, unconsciously, mental Side Story is one of the most popular Dances at a Gathering was the first ballet pictures and images form, and the patterns theatrical productions based on William Jerome Robbins made for New York City and paths of these reveries are influenced by Shakespeare’s . Set on Ballet upon his return to the company the music itself, or its program notes, or by the Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the in 1969, following a 12-year absence personal dreams, problems, and fantasies of mid-, West Side Story explores the during which he choreographed some of the listener. Chopin’s music in particular has rivalry between two teenage gangs of his best-known Broadway musicals. An been subject to fanciful ‘program’ names, such different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. hour-long suite for ten dancers, set to solo as the Butterfly Etude, the Minute Waltz, the Tony, who belongs to the native Manhattan piano works by Frederic Chopin, Dances Raindrop Prelude, etc.” gang, the Jets, falls in love with Maria, at a Gathering began as a pas de deux. Choreographed in 1956, The Concert is the sister of the leader of the rival Puerto Robbins selected more music and the a comic spoof of a classical music concert. Rican gang, the Sharks. The dark theme, ballet grew. He invited Balanchine to see a The setting is an all-Chopin recital where the sophisticated music, extended dance rehearsal, asking him if the ballet wasn’t a attendees allow their decidedly imaginative scenes, and focus on social problems bit long. Balanchine watched the rehearsal, minds to wander. When the resulting images marked a turning point in American then said, “More. Make more!” are danced, human foibles and insecurities musical theater. Speaking before the premiere, Robbins are revealed as Robbins brings each fantasy The original 1957 Broadway production, explained, “I’m doing a fairly classical comically and vividly to life. A genuine crowd- directed and choreographed by Jerome ballet to very old fashioned and romantic pleaser, The Concert illustrates Robbins’ Robbins, marked Stephen Sondheim’s music, but there is a point to it. In a way remarkable insight into the delightful imper- Broadway debut. The production earned a it is a revolt from the faddism today. I find fections of human relationships and, in the Tony Award in 1957 for Robbins’ choreog- myself feeling just what is the matter with midst of the laughter, enlightens us all. raphy. The musical led to the innovative, connecting, what’s the matter with love, what’s the matter with celebrating positive Afternoon of a Faun, Circus Polka, Dances at a Gathering, award-winning 1961 musical film, winning In the Night, Other Dances, West Side Story Suite, The 10 Academy Awards out of 11 nomina- things?” Concert (or, The Perils of Everybody) performed by tions, including Best Director, for Robbins Jerome Robbins dedicated Dances at permission of The Robbins Rights Trust. and , and Best Picture. Jerome a Gathering to the memory of lighting Robbins extracted a sequence of dances designer Jean Rosenthal. Igor Stravinsky Circus Polka, used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, sole U.S. from West Side Story to make this suite for and Canadian agent for Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, New York City Ballet in 1995. The Concert Mainz, Germany, publisher and copyright owner. (or, The Perils West Side Story Suite by arrangement with Boosey & Dances at a Hawkes, Inc. Sole Agent for Leonard Bernstein Music Gathering of Everybody) Publishing Company LLC, publisher and copyright owner. MUSIC: Frederic Chopin (Polonaise “Militaire”, West Side Story Suite sets and costumes courtesy of MUSIC: Frederic Chopin (Mazurka, Op. 63, 1838; , Op. 57, 1843; Prelude, . no. 3, 1846; Waltz, Op. 69, no. 2, 1829; Op. 28, No. 18, 1831?–1839; Prelude, Op. Mazurka, Op. 33, no. 3, 1838; Mazurka, 28, No. 16, 1831?–1839; Waltz in E Minor The Concert scenery and costumes courtesy of . Op. 6, no. 4, 1830–1831; Mazurka, Op. 7, [Posth], c. 1830; Prelude, Op. 28, No. 7, no. 5, 1830–1832; Mazurka, Op. 7, no. 4, 1831?–1839; Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4, 1831?– 1830–1832; Mazurka, Op 24, no. 2, 1836; 1839; Mazurka in G Major [Posth.], 1829; Mazurka, Op. 6, no. 2, 1830–1831; Waltz, Ballade, Op. 47, No. 3, 1841), orchestrated Op. 42, 1839?–1840; Waltz, Op. 34, no. 2, by Clare Grundman

12 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET About The Artists

Cameron Grant Piano Soloist, The Concert (or, The Perils of Everybody), In the Night Cameron Grant joined New York City Ballet (NYCB) in 1984 and © Erin Balano was appointed pianist of the orchestra in 1998. He performed all the company’s major piano ballets, including Jerome Robbins’ Goldberg Variations and George Balanchine’s Davidsbundlertänze. Mr. Grant has been the piano soloist for ballet premieres by Richard Tanner, Robert CONTEMPORARY HAND-CRAFTED MEXICAN CUISINE La Fosse, and . In 2004, he appeared in the Emmy Award-winning Live from Lincoln Center broadcast of New York City Ballet and performed with the company at before the President.

Mark Salman Piano Soloist, Other Dances Mark Salman performs regularly as a concerto soloist with Northwest orchestras, having performed more than 30 different concertos. He has performed Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas on both coasts and in 16 KING-FM broadcasts. His performances include his debut at the Newport Music Festival and multiple recital series and recordings featuring the music of Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven, and Chopin. He was a co-founder of the Delmarva Piano Festival and is currently on the faculty of the Seattle Conservatory of Music. Mr. Salman is a Steinway artist.

Christina Siemens Piano Soloist, Dances at a Gathering Christina Siemens joined PNB in 2003

© Lindsay Thomas and was promoted to Company Pianist in 2008. She has an extensive solo keyboard 1st & Republican repertoire with PNB as well as performing Next to Key Arena as soprano soloist in numerous Company productions. Ms. Siemens regularly appears agavecocina.com with the Seattle Symphony, Auburn Symphony, The Tudor Choir, and Byrd Ensemble, and performs for commercial and BRUNCH | LUNCH | HAPPY HOUR | DINNER | LATE NIGHT soundtrack recordings.

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In addition to teaching Immediately following each repertory ductions, assisted by a staff of stage technicians $50,000–$74,999 $25,000–$49,999 and rehearsing the Company and preparing program performance (except The and managers. PNB School students for their roles in Company Sleeping Beauty and George Balanchine’s productions, Mr. Neubert performs guest artist The Nutcracker®). Nesholm Family Lecture roles in PNB productions. Hall, McCaw Hall Join Artistic Director Peter Boal or a member of PNB’s artistic staff and Company dancers for a lively question-and- * Support from Microsoft Corporation, The Boeing Company, Sellen answer session following each performance. Construction, Starbucks Coffee Company, Perkins Coie, and Stoel Rives LLP includes employee workplace giving campaigns.

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4Culture • The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation • ArtsFund • the 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 • Pacific Northwest Ballet gratefully National Endowment for the Arts • Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield acknowledges the following Phelps • PONCHO • James D. and Sherry Raisbeck individuals and organizations who Touring Fund • Samuel and Althea Stroum* • Seattle have committed $1 million or more Foundation • The Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, to support the Ballet’s operating a collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation needs or capital, endowment, and the Surdna Foundation • The Wallace Foundation • touring, and new works initiatives. Washington State Office of Community Development • Washington State Department of Commerce • Anonymous

Lucien Postlewaite in Jerome Robbins’ Opus 19/The Dreamer. © Lindsay Thomas.

Pacific Northwest Ballet gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their generous support of the Annual Fund during the past year. These generous contributors are an integral part of our success, sustaining and enriching artistic productions, dance education, and community outreach programs. For information on how to become part of this esteemed group of donors, contact Marianna Clair, Individual Giving Associate and Board Liaison, at 206.441.3589 or [email protected].

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE  $100,000 AND ABOVE Jeffrey* & Susan Brotman • Mrs. Patty Edwards • Peter & Peggy Horvitz • Glenn Kawasaki • James & Sherry Raisbeck • Anonymous

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE  $50,000–$99,999 Chap & Eve Alvord • Carl & Renee Behnke • Bob Benson • David & Cheryl Hadley • Aya Stark Hamilton­ • Mr. H. David Kaplan • Marcella ­McCaffray • Deidra Wager

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE  $25,000–$49,999 Richard & Lisa Altig • Lyndall Boal • Lynne E. Graybeal­ & Scott Harron • Jolene McCaw and Family • John & Melba Short • Dr. Michael & Peggy Swistak • The True Family Tom & Connie Walsh • Leslie & Tachi Yamada

BALLET MASTERS CIRCLE  $10,000–$24,999 Donna & Anthony Barnett • Courtney & John Geist • Linda Berkman • Jack Blaylock­ & Jane Evans • Dr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Boyce • Ms. Susan Y. Buske Shirlee D. Christensen • Cheryl Clark & Stephan Coonrod • Jon R. Conte & Margaret Kerrigan • Michael* & Lois Craig • Jane Cremin • John Delo & Elizabeth Stokes William J.* & Sandra B. Dunn • William & Carole Ellison Foundation • Jerald E. Farley • Ms. Rebecca Figueroa • Joan Fitzmaurice • Marcus Fontoura & Ana Doliveira William E. Franklin • Dr. Stephen & Beverly Fuhs • Robin Gainey • Katharyn Alvord Gerlich • Susan & Bill Grinstein • Adiel & Sandi Silverio • W. Daniel Heidt & Michele B. Heidt • Stephen & Marie Heil • Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Herb • Ms. Anne Holmes • Kalen & Sean Holmes • CathyBeth & Steven W. Hooper • Ms. Toni Hoover & Mr. Alfred Nettles • Tom* & Gail James • Spencer A. Johnson & Braiden Rex Johnson • Christy Jones & Rob Lilleness • Sara A. Jones • Gilla­ Kaplan • Mr. & Mrs. Travis H. Keeler Ms. ­Janet Ketcham • Steven & April Kieburtz • Dan Kingston & Maureen Mooney • Rocke R. Koreis & Candy J. Lee • Frances J. Kwapil • Firoz & Najma Lalji­ • Alex & Sandy Lange Sharon Lee • Dr. Frank & Lynn Lindsay • Jeff & Nancy Loch • Maria Mackey • The MacRae Family Foundation • Christina Marra & Paul Silver • Frederick W. McDonald Carol & Paul Neiman • Dr. Joe G. Norman, Jr. • Susan & Dennis­ Okamoto • Alida & Douglas Oles • Gwendolyn­ Payton & John Neeleman • Elizabeth & Stephen Pirnat­ Charles M. Powell & Tuan Ngo • Mr. & Mrs. Tom A. Puentes • Catherine­ & Grant Ries • Lynn Ries & Rod Proctor • Barbara Ries • Haim N. Schoppik • Vivian­ & Jim Schwab Ms. Denise Littlefield Sobel • Kent Stowell & FranciaRussell ­ • Aimee Truchard • Ms. Natasha Lalji Verjee • Ms. Jodi Wong • Bagley* & Virginia­ Wright • Anonymous (4)

SCHOLARSHIP PATRON  $6,000–$9,999 Linda & Tom Allen • Kent & Barbara Chaplin • Jean Enersen & Bruce Carter • Sharon Falkner & Gene Chamberlain • Natalie Gendler • Stacy & Frank Graves • Ms. Laura Hunter Ned & Pam Johnson • Jeanne Kanach • Mr. & Mrs. Tim Kirley • Greg Kusnick & Karen Jo Gustafson • Barbara Lewis • Mr. Joshua Lieberman­ • Ms. Laura Lundgren Helene Mawyer • Judy & Arnie Ness • Mr. John O’Connell & Mrs. Joyce Latino • Mrs. Ellen Pottenger & Simone J. Berger • Mr. & Mrs. William G. Reed Jr. • Susan & Ron Runyon Mel & Leena Sturman • Christina Tanner • David & Romayne Watt • Sally Anne West & Peder Knudsen* • Ray & Judy Williams • Ms. Virginia D. Wyman Anonymous

MEMBERS OF THE BARRE  $4,000–$5,999 Mariana Ancira • Kari Anderson & Mark Pavlovic • Phoebe Andrew • The Art Works Charitable Fund • Ms. Katherine Barclay-Robertson • Jane & Peter Barrett Patty & Jimmy Barrier • Mr. and Mrs. Keith Birdwell • Tom & Jeannie Blank • Capt. & Mrs. Paul Bloch • Gary & Linda Blume • Elisabeth Bodal • Ellen C. Carnwath Daniel & Margaret Carper Foundation • Royce & Aggie Church • Ms. Collett Cox • In honor of Norma Cugini • Judith Cushman • Mrs. Tatiana Davidson Bertrand & Brooke de Boutray • Phil & Lenore Defliese • Margaret A. Dell’Osso • Sheila C. Dietrich • Elizabeth & Shawn Dougherty • Donna and Robert Dughi Dr. Milton & Nancy English • Kristina M. Erickson • Ms. Juli Farris • Ms. Margaret J. Field • Caroline Gallee & Frank Peschel-Gallee • Michelle & Matt Galvin Scott and Alicia Griffin • Cathi & Ken* Hatch • Ms. Marilyn Lee Huey & Ms. Dorothy Sloan Huey* • Roy Hughes & Julie Davis • Ms. Jo Anne Iaciofano & Mr. Gary Caldwell Ms. Ellen Kowalczyk • Bill & Kathie Kreager • Nikki & Mark Mahan • Michael & Barbara Malone • Mr. David Mattson • Jim & Julie McElroy • Thomas A. Nowak M.D John Parchem & Barbara Lycett • Richard & Jean Patton • Mrs. Marda Phelps • Dick & Alice Rapasky • Ms. Christina Rich • Dr. Mack & Susan Richey • Tom & Carolyn Roe Judy and Lellius Rose • Maher & Elena Saba • Mary-Catherine Schugel • Ms. Alesha­ & Mr. Dave Shemwell • Andre Suttles & ­Natalie Scarella in honor of Matilda Suttles Jennifer Thompson • Susan Thurston • Shannon Tierney, MD • John & Eileen Tietze • Mimi A. Tutihasi • Nicholas Utzinger & John Rochford • Robert & Lisa Wahbe Ms. Maggie Walker • Stephanie Wallach • Toby & Linda Warson • Ms. Kathryn Wickham • Carol Wright • Anonymous (2)

* deceased

16 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PNB’s New Works Supporters

PNB’s New Works Initiative provides a flexible environment to create new works, develop dancers Make through performances, and fashion a repertory both firmly rooted in tradition and committed to retirement the evolution of the artistic medium. New works contribute to the advancement of the art form, while presenting PNB’s audiences with a wide range of delicious. dance to bolster a strong appreciation of the versatility of ballet and a true understanding of various At Mirabella Seattle, you can choreographers’ bodies of work. PNB would like to thank the following individuals and organizations that enjoy gourmet meals and have supported the New Works Initiative with a gift of $1,000 or more over the past year. incredible fresh-baked goods Itamar & Christine Abrass without ever stepping foot Lisa & Richard Altig Chap & Eve Alvord The Art Works Charitable Fund outside. Sometimes a night in is Donna & Anthony Barnett Carl & Renee Behnke even better than a night out. Bob Benson Lyndall Boal Dr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Boyce Experience our stylish, worry- Jeffrey* & Susan Brotman Ms. Susan Y. Buske Meeka Charles free retirement lifestyle today: Cheryl Clark & Stephan Coonrod Jon R. Conte & Margaret Kerrigan 206-254-1441 Terrence Cronin In honor of Norma Cugini Daphne S. Dejanikus mirabellaliving.com/seattle ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE  $100,000 AND ABOVE Kathryn Del Beccaro Donna & Rob Dughi Jeffrey* & Susan Brotman • Mrs. Patty Edwards • Peter & Peggy Horvitz • Glenn Kawasaki • James & Sherry Raisbeck • Anonymous William & Carole Ellison Foundation Mirabella Seattle is a Pacific Retirement Services Ms. Juli Farris in honor of Norma Cugini community and an equal housing opportunity. CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE  $50,000–$99,999 Joan Fitzmaurice Ms. Anne M. Foster Chap & Eve Alvord • Carl & Renee Behnke • Bob Benson • David & Cheryl Hadley • Aya Stark Hamilton­ • Mr. H. David Kaplan • Marcella ­McCaffray • Deidra Wager Natalie Gendler Katharyn Alvord Gerlich PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE  $25,000–$49,999 David & Cheryl Hadley Richard & Lisa Altig • Lyndall Boal • Lynne E. Graybeal­ & Scott Harron • Jolene McCaw and Family • John & Melba Short • Dr. Michael & Peggy Swistak • The True Family Aya Stark Hamilton W. Daniel Heidt & Michele B. Heidt Tom & Connie Walsh • Leslie & Tachi Yamada Ms. Anne Holmes Peter & Peggy Horvitz BALLET MASTERS CIRCLE  $10,000–$24,999 Ms. Laura Hunter Tom* & Gail James Donna & Anthony Barnett • Courtney & John Geist • Linda Berkman • Jack Blaylock­ & Jane Evans • Dr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Boyce • Ms. Susan Y. Buske Spencer A. Johnson Shirlee D. Christensen • Cheryl Clark & Stephan Coonrod • Jon R. Conte & Margaret Kerrigan • Michael* & Lois Craig • Jane Cremin • John Delo & Elizabeth Stokes & Braiden William J.* & Sandra B. Dunn • William & Carole Ellison Foundation • Jerald E. Farley • Ms. Rebecca Figueroa • Joan Fitzmaurice • Marcus Fontoura & Ana Doliveira Rex-Johnson William E. Franklin • Dr. Stephen & Beverly Fuhs • Robin Gainey • Katharyn Alvord Gerlich • Susan & Bill Grinstein • Adiel & Sandi Silverio • W. Daniel Heidt & H. David Kaplan Michele B. Heidt • Stephen & Marie Heil • Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Herb • Ms. Anne Holmes • Kalen & Sean Holmes • CathyBeth & Steven W. Hooper • Ms. Toni Hoover & Glenn Kawasaki Mr. Alfred Nettles • Tom* & Gail James • Spencer A. Johnson & Braiden Rex Johnson • Christy Jones & Rob Lilleness • Sara A. Jones • Gilla­ Kaplan • Mr. & Mrs. Travis H. Keeler April & Steven Kieburtz Mr. & Mrs. Tim Kirley Ms. ­Janet Ketcham • Steven & April Kieburtz • Dan Kingston & Maureen Mooney • Rocke R. Koreis & Candy J. Lee • Frances J. Kwapil • Firoz & Najma Lalji­ • Alex & Sandy Lange Greg Kusnick & Karen Jo Gustafson Sharon Lee • Dr. Frank & Lynn Lindsay • Jeff & Nancy Loch • Maria Mackey • The MacRae Family Foundation • Christina Marra & Paul Silver • Frederick W. McDonald Barbara Lewis Carol & Paul Neiman • Dr. Joe G. Norman, Jr. • Susan & Dennis­ Okamoto • Alida & Douglas Oles • Gwendolyn­ Payton & John Neeleman • Elizabeth & Stephen Pirnat­ Dr. Frank & Lynn Lindsay Charles M. Powell & Tuan Ngo • Mr. & Mrs. Tom A. Puentes • Catherine­ & Grant Ries • Lynn Ries & Rod Proctor • Barbara Ries • Haim N. Schoppik • Vivian­ & Jim Schwab Maria Mackey Ms. Denise Littlefield Sobel • Kent Stowell & FranciaRussell ­ • Aimee Truchard • Ms. Natasha Lalji Verjee • Ms. Jodi Wong • Bagley* & Virginia­ Wright • Anonymous (4) Mr. David Mattson Helene Mawyer Marcella McCaffray SCHOLARSHIP PATRON  $6,000–$9,999 Frederick McDonald Linda & Tom Allen • Kent & Barbara Chaplin • Jean Enersen & Bruce Carter • Sharon Falkner & Gene Chamberlain • Natalie Gendler • Stacy & Frank Graves • Ms. Laura Hunter Joan & Tim Meskill Ned & Pam Johnson • Jeanne Kanach • Mr. & Mrs. Tim Kirley • Greg Kusnick & Karen Jo Gustafson • Barbara Lewis • Mr. Joshua Lieberman­ • Ms. Laura Lundgren Carol & Paul Neiman Helene Mawyer • Judy & Arnie Ness • Mr. John O’Connell & Mrs. Joyce Latino • Mrs. Ellen Pottenger & Simone J. Berger • Mr. & Mrs. William G. Reed Jr. • Susan & Ron Runyon Dr. Joe G. Norman, Jr. Simon & Carol Ottenberg Mel & Leena Sturman • Christina Tanner • David & Romayne Watt • Sally Anne West & Peder Knudsen* • Ray & Judy Williams • Ms. Virginia D. Wyman Anonymous Elizabeth & Stephen Pirnat PNB Young Patrons Circle MEMBERS OF THE BARRE  $4,000–$5,999 Mr. & Mrs. Tom A. Puentes Mariana Ancira • Kari Anderson & Mark Pavlovic • Phoebe Andrew • The Art Works Charitable Fund • Ms. Katherine Barclay-Robertson • Jane & Peter Barrett Suzanne and John Rahn Ms. Christina Rich Patty & Jimmy Barrier • Mr. and Mrs. Keith Birdwell • Tom & Jeannie Blank • Capt. & Mrs. Paul Bloch • Gary & Linda Blume • Elisabeth Bodal • Ellen C. Carnwath Mimi Richards Daniel & Margaret Carper Foundation • Royce & Aggie Church • Ms. Collett Cox • In honor of Norma Cugini • Judith Cushman • Mrs. Tatiana Davidson Mary-Catherine Schugel Bertrand & Brooke de Boutray • Phil & Lenore Defliese • Margaret A. Dell’Osso • Sheila C. Dietrich • Elizabeth & Shawn Dougherty • Donna and Robert Dughi Peyton & Carolann Storli Dr. Milton & Nancy English • Kristina M. Erickson • Ms. Juli Farris • Ms. Margaret J. Field • Caroline Gallee & Frank Peschel-Gallee • Michelle & Matt Galvin Dr. Michael & Peggy Swistak Scott and Alicia Griffin • Cathi & Ken* Hatch • Ms. Marilyn Lee Huey & Ms. Dorothy Sloan Huey* • Roy Hughes & Julie Davis • Ms. Jo Anne Iaciofano & Mr. Gary Caldwell Amy Theobald Jennifer Thompson Ms. Ellen Kowalczyk • Bill & Kathie Kreager • Nikki & Mark Mahan • Michael & Barbara Malone • Mr. David Mattson • Jim & Julie McElroy • Thomas A. Nowak M.D Nicholas Utzinger & John Rochford John Parchem & Barbara Lycett • Richard & Jean Patton • Mrs. Marda Phelps • Dick & Alice Rapasky • Ms. Christina Rich • Dr. Mack & Susan Richey • Tom & Carolyn Roe Ms. Natasha Lalji Verjee Judy and Lellius Rose • Maher & Elena Saba • Mary-Catherine Schugel • Ms. Alesha­ & Mr. Dave Shemwell • Andre Suttles & ­Natalie Scarella in honor of Matilda Suttles Ms. Maggie Walker Jennifer Thompson • Susan Thurston • Shannon Tierney, MD • John & Eileen Tietze • Mimi A. Tutihasi • Nicholas Utzinger & John Rochford • Robert & Lisa Wahbe Tom & Connie Walsh Ms. Maggie Walker • Stephanie Wallach • Toby & Linda Warson • Ms. Kathryn Wickham • Carol Wright • Anonymous (2) Toby & Linda Warson Cathy & Ross Wiggins Ms. Jodi Wong * deceased Carol Wright Leslie & Tachi Yamada Anonymous (3)

encoremediagroup.com/programs 17 Pacific Northwest Ballet Endowment

PNB FOUNDATION BOARD John Graham Foundation Mark & Julie Hutcheson W. Daniel Heidt & Michele B. Heidt Skip & Jackie Kotkins Chairman, Peter Horvitz Estate of Pauline Hood Lisa Kroese Foundation Immediate Past Chair, Susan Brotman Bruce & Carol Hosford Diane & Gordon Kuenster Estate of Susanne F. Hubbach Helen L. Luchs* President, Aya Hamilton Jim* & Diana Judson Dennis & Linda Mitchell Frederick W. McDonald Estate of Beatrice R. Olson Vice President, David Hadley Estate of Shirley Callison Miner Heidi Orr Secretary, Joan Fitzmaurice Margaret Perthou-Taylor* Estate of Opal J. Orr Treasurer, Dan Heidt Jeanne Ellen Tweten & James W. Leslie Cynthia Phelps* Members at large, Carl Behnke, Phil Schlaepfer, Estate of Frankie Wakefield Mr. R. Stewart Phelps Dan Kingston Estate of Barbara L. Weinstein Barbara Prestrud, In Memory of Mr. & Mrs. Louis K. Bye Ron & Carolyn Woodard Lynn Ries Pacific Northwest Ballet gratefully acknowledges the Carol Wright Estate of Mary Schneidler following donors to the PNB Endowment. Established in Donna & Joshua Taylor 1996 to ensure the future stability of PNB, the Endowment $25,000–$49,999 Wayne Thurman stands at $16 million in current and planned gifts. If you The Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Charitable Foundation Anonymous would like to give a gift to the PNB Endowment that will Jerry* & Rita Anches help secure the future of PNB, please contact Elizabeth Sharon & Jay Ballantine $10,000–$14,999 Damore, Director of Development, at 206.441.3594. Patty & Jimmy Barrier Erik & Sherilyn Anderson John & Kay Baxter Betty L. Blakeney Rebecca & Jack* Benaroya Tom & Jeannie Blank $1,000,000 and above Benjamin Bevis* Bill & June Boeing Jeffrey* & Susan Brotman Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Braun, Jr. Diane Canaday & Daniel Hesse Kreielsheimer Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Anson Brooks, Jr. Tatiana Davidson David Michaud Ralph E. Bruno* Mrs. Mildred K. Dunn* Anonymous Estate of Cordelia Burns Jim & Ann Elias Dale & Leslie Chihuly Dr. Stephen & Beverly Fuhs $500,000–$999,999 Cheryl Clark & Stephan Coonrod Mr. & Mrs. George M. Galpin Estate of Ruth Hoffman Clise Properties, Inc. G. Keith & Naomi Grim Peter & Peggy Horvitz Gail Cottle & Reynold Brown Estate of Mary S. Helmick Dr. Joe G. Norman, Jr. Alex* & Norma* Cugini John* & Marli Iverson Estate of Althea Stroum Estate of Trudel Dean Estate of Ralph C. Jacobson Arlene A. Wright Derdick Trust Craig & Karen Kennedy The Bagley Wright Fund Patty Edwards Lee Kraft Cressman & Paul R. Cressman Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration Joan Fitzmaurice Joan T. Lasersohn of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Eliza Flug Patricia & Wilfrid Loeken the Surdna Foundation Susan E. Foster & Maurice J. Pirio Keith & Mary McCaw Family Foundation Anonymous William Franklin Galen Mohr* Estate of Merrill Gerstel JPMorgan Chase & Co. $250,000–$499,999 Mr.* & Mrs. James S. Griffin Estate of Nancy Nuckols Keefe Mr. & Mrs. William* J. Dunn David & Cheryl Hadley Lea Anne & Randall Ottinger Estate of Gerard L. Hanauer Mike & Janet Halvorson John Parchem & Barbara Lycett Estate of Helen C. Kloess Ross Hartling, MD & Johnese Spisso Safeco Corporation Estate of Gloria Peck-Neils Cathi & Ken* Hatch Estate of Amy L. Sidell Catherine Hobi Hawes PNB STARS $150,000–$249,999 Luke & Gail Helms George* & Nelly Sofer Carl & Renee Behnke David F. Hill & Barbara M. Hyland-Hill Paula Rose* Jane & Robert Cremin Kalen & Sean Holmes Craig Tall John & Carmen* Delo Moe & Susan Krabbe Estate of David Wagoner Laurie A. Griffith James A. Kraft & Dominique Posy Firoz & Najma Lalji * Deceased William Randolph Hearst Foundation Glenn Kawasaki Dr. Frank & Lynn Lindsay Anonymous (2) Michael & Barbara Malone The following named funds have been created in the Marcella McCaffray PNB Endowment: Audrey McCoy $100,000–$149,999 Alexis Phelps Dancer’s Support Endowed Fund MCM a Meisenbach Company Patrice & Kevin Auld The Althea Stroum Production Fund Roger F. Miller Estate of Louise V. Blanks Arlene A. Wright DanceChance Endowment Fund Carol & Paul Neiman Estate of Mrs. Jack Cluck Benjamin Houk Scholarship for Young Men Laura J. Peterson Jane M.* & David R. Davis Carmen Elizabeth Delo Endowed Fund for Education In honor of our parents, Sheffield & Patricia Phelps Aya Stark Hamilton and Outreach James & Sherry Raisbeck Jeremy & Jacqueline Jaech Catherine S. Leschen Endowed Scholarship Fund Dr. Mack & Susan Richey Henry* & Mary Ann James Dr. Stanley M. Pier Endowed Scholarship Fund John & Sarah Rindlaub Spencer A. Johnson & Braiden Rex-Johnson Frank Hobi Endowed Scholarship Fund Mrs. John S. Robinson* H. David Kaplan, In Memory of Dr. Stanley M. Pier Frankie Ladley Wakefield Endowment for Ballet Jan Rogers Travis & Suzanne Keeler Educational Programs Jon & Judy Runstad Catherine S. Leschen Helen Kloess Endowed Scholarship Fund John Charles & Mary R. Sellen-Klinker The Norcliffe Foundation Jane McConnell Scholarship Jan & Jim Sinegal Mr. & Mrs. Tom A. Puentes Scholarship Fund Estate of Phillip Soth Rick & Jennifer Redman Kreielsheimer Artistic Development Fund Delphine & Charles Stevens John & Elizabeth Rudolf Laurie A. Griffith Endowed Scholarship Fund John Stokes & Laurie McDonald John F. & Julia P.* Shaw Louise Nadeau Endowed Fund Harry C. & Joan Stonecipher Allen & Kathleen Shoup Lucinda Hughey Endowed Scholarship Fund Kent Stowell & Francia Russell Kayla Skinner* Northwest Endowed Fund Dr. Michael & Peggy Swistak Sophie Sussman* Patricia Barker Endowed Scholarship Fund Doug & Janet True Estate of Jack D. Wulfekuhle Patricia Phelps Endowed Scholarship Fund Toby & Linda Warson Paula Rose Endowed Scholarship Fund Richard L. Weisman $50,000–$99,999 Spender A. Johnson & Braiden Rex-Johnson Principal Albrecht Widmann & Kenneth Barlow Chap & Eve Alvord Dancers’ Endowed Fund Wyman Youth Trust Apex Foundation Tom & Gretchen Puentes Endowed Scholarship Fund Leslie & Tachi Yamada Robert M. Arnold* William Randolph Hearst Foundation Endowed Education Anonymous (3) Estate of Edward S. Brignall & Outreach Fund Estate of Evangeline Edwards $15,000–$24,999 Estate of Erma Erickson Jane Erskine* Mrs. Phyllis B. Clark* Reed & Maren Erskine Barry & JoAnn Forman Estate of George Franz Ruth & Bill Gerberding Mrs. Paul S. Friedlander* Dr. Hellmut & Marcy Golde Robin Gainey & Jerry Sanford, Jr., In Memory of Adele Golub Jerome G. Sanford, Sr. Gerald & Lyn Grinstein

18 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.

2018–2019 SEASON SPONSORS

SEASON PARTNERS

THE HEARST FOUNDATIONS

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

Nesholm Family Foundation

Anonymous Fund of JOHN GRAHAM FOUNDATION The Philadephia Foundation

$200,000 & Above $25,000–$49,999 Northern Trust KUOW 94.9 Public Radio* ArtsFund Anonymous Fund of The Northwest Danish Association Macy’s KOMO 4* Philadelphia Foundation Perkins Coie LLP Muckleshoot Indian Tribe The Seattle Times* Chateau Ste. Michelle* scan|design Foundation by Precept Wine* The Wallace Foundation Freed of London Inger & Jens Bruun Professional Claims Intervention John Graham Foundation Wells Fargo Services $100,000–$199,999 John T. Vistica* Talking Rain* Alaska Airlines Providence St. Joseph Health $2,500–$9,999 TEGNA Foundation Office of Arts & Culture|Seattle Seattle Foundation Alabastro Photography* Anonymous PricewaterhouseCoopers* Spectra Ben Bridge Jeweler* The Shubert Foundation U.S. Bank Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Up to $2,499 Foundation Alaska Airlines* $50,000–$99,999 $10,000–$24,999 Byron & Alice Lockwood Bossa in Wonderland* 4Culture ArtsWA Foundation Crimson Haze Event Lighting* The Boeing Company Charles and Joan Gross Family Chris Graves Music* Fairmont Olympic Hotel* The Jerome Robbins Foundation Foundation City of Bellevue Neiman Marcus* Microsoft Corporation Dilettante Chocolates* CliftonLarsonAllen LLP* Penelope & the Beauty Bar* National Endowment for the Arts Jean K. Lafromboise Foundation Crimson Haze Event Lighting Solo Bar* Nesholm Family Foundation JPMorgan Chase & Co. Delta Dental Sound Credit Union Perkins Coie LLP* Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Fales Foundation Trust superGraphics, Inc.* Starbucks Coffee Company* LLP Freed of London* Anonymous Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation MacDonald Hoague & Bayless* Goldman, Sachs & Co. Anonymous Moss Adams LLP* Kaiser Permanente *In-Kind Support Kendra Scott*

PREFERRED PROVIDERS

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Leta Biasucci William Lin-Yee Seth Orza Lesley Rausch* Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Corps de ballet San Francisco, California. Corps de ballet San Francisco, California. Corps de ballet in Columbus, Ohio. Corps de ballet in 2001, in 2011, soloist in 2014, principal in 2018. in 2008, soloist in 2014, principal in 2016. 2007, soloist in 2008, principal in 2010. soloist in 2007, principal in 2011.

Lindsi Dec* James Moore Noelani Pantastico* Jerome Tisserand Fairfax, Virginia. Apprentice in 2001, corps de San Francisco, California. Corps de ballet Oahu, Hawaii. Apprentice in 1997, corps de Lyon, France. Corps de ballet in 2007, ballet in 2002, soloist in 2009, principal in 2014. in 2004, soloist in 2008, principal in 2013. ballet in 1998, soloist in 2001, principal in soloist in 2012, principal in 2014. 2004 and 2015.

Rachel Foster Elizabeth Murphy* Jonathan Porretta Laura Tisserand* Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Corps de ballet in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Corps de ballet in Totowa, New Jersey. Apprentice in 1999, corps de Hammond, Louisiana. Apprentice in 2003, corps de 2002, soloist in 2008, principal in 2011. 2011, soloist in 2014, principal in 2015. ballet 2000, soloist in 2002, principal in 2005. ballet in 2004, soloist in 2010, principal in 2014.

Benjamin Griffiths* Sarah Ricard Orza Lucien Postlewaite* Boise, Idaho. Corps de ballet in 2005, Amherst, Massachusetts. Corps de ballet in Santa Cruz, California. Apprentice in 2003, soloist in 2008, principal in 2016. 2007, 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 20 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET *Indicates training with Pacific Northwest Ballet School. by visiting PNB.org. SOLOISTS ECA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: AN EVENING OF BODYVOX FILMS Thursday, October 4 7:30 pm | FREE View the films and hear the back story on their creation from Artistic Director Ashley Roland. BodyVox’s films, created with director Mitchell Rose, have won numerous awards in national and international festivals. BODYVOX’S “BLOODYVOX” Saturday, October 27 7:30 pm | $19–$59 BloodyVox is a dance theater experience that mines cinema, folklore, and Kyle Davis* Leah Merchant* our collective nightmares to bring the season Green Bay, Wisconsin. Apprentice in 2008, Mobile, Alabama. Apprentice in 2007, of spirits and All Hallows’ Eve to life. corps de ballet in 2009, soloist in 2016. corps de ballet in 2008, soloist in 2016. NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY & AHN TRIO, “A QUEST FOR FREEDOM” Saturday, February 23 7:30 pm (6:00 pm talk) | $34–$59 This captivating multi-cultural production examines leaving one’s home, family, and friends to embrace new dreams and freedom. This event will include a pre-show talk. ec4arts.org 425.275.9595 Angelica Generosa* Margaret Mullin* 410FOURTHAVE.N. EDMONDSWA98020 South River, New Jersey. Apprentice in 2011, Tucson, Arizona. Apprentice in 2008, corps de ballet in 2012, soloist in 2016. corps de ballet in 2009, soloist in 2014.

Joshua Grant* Price Suddarth* Niceville, Florida. Corps de ballet in Westfield, Indiana. Apprentice in 2010, 2001–2004 and 2011, soloist in 2015. corps de ballet in 2011, soloist in 2018.

Steven Loch* Ezra Thomson* Denton County, Texas. Apprentice in 2011, San Bernardino, California. Apprentice in corps de ballet in 2012, soloist in 2018. 2009, 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. encoremediagroup.com/programs 21 CORPS de BALLET

Madison Rayn Abeo* Henry Cotton* Elle Macy* Sarah Pasch* Seattle, Washington. Portland, Oregon. Corps de ballet Huntington Beach, California. Dublin, California. Apprentice in 2011, Apprentice in 2016, corps de ballet in 2017. in 2015. Apprentice in 2012, corps de ballet in 2013. corps de ballet in 2012.

Guillaume Basso Dammiel Cruz* Clara Ruf Maldonado* Miles Pertl* Dijon, France. Corps de ballet in 2015. New York, New York. Apprentice in 2016, New York, New York. Apprentice in 2018, Seattle, Washington. Corps de ballet corps de ballet in 2016. corps de ballet in 2018. in 2015.

Ryan Cardea* Christopher D’Ariano* Angeli Mamon* Christian Poppe* New York, New York. Apprentice in Yonkers, New York. Apprentice in 2017, Seattle, Washington. Apprentice in 2015, Lake Stevens, Washington. Apprentice 2009, corps de ballet in 2010. corps de ballet in 2018. corps de ballet in 2016. in 2013, corps de ballet in 2014.

Nancy Casciano* Cecilia Iliesiu Amanda Morgan* Calista Ruat Decatur, Georgia. Apprentice in 2014, New York, New York. Tacoma, Washington. Apprentice in 2016, Paris, France. Corps de ballet in 2017. corps de ballet in 2015. Corps de ballet in 2015. corps de ballet in 2017.

22 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET UW DEPARTMENT OF DANCE

Chamber Dance Company Unspoken

October 11 – 14 UW Meany Theater

Harald Kreutzberg Joseph Gifford Lucinda Childs Susan Marshall Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan* Dylan Wald* Daniel Charon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Apprentice Minneapolis, Minnesota. Apprentice in 2016, corps de ballet in 2017. in 2014, corps de ballet in 2015.

dance.uw.edu Tickets $10 – 24 206-543-4880 ArtsUW.org

Emma Love Suddarth* Genevieve Waldorf* Wichita, Kansas. Apprentice in 2008, West Hills, California. Apprentice photo: Steve Korn corps de ballet in 2009. in 2018, corps de ballet in 2018. PNB Contact & Venue Info APPRENTICE

Pacific Northwest Ballet Phelps Center 301 Mercer ST Seattle, WA 98109

Main: 206.441.9411 / [email protected] Box Office: 206.441.2424 / [email protected] Giving: 206.441.3599 / [email protected] Madison Taylor* Luther DeMyer* PNB Schools: 206.441.2435 / 425/451.1241 / Gig Harbor, Washington. Corps de ballet Indianapolis, Indiana. Apprentice in 2018. [email protected] in 2015. Marion Oliver McCaw Hall 321 Mercer Street Seattle, WA 98109 McCawHall.com

Main: 206.733.9725 / [email protected]

McCaw Hall offers wheelchairs, accessible seating and usher staff assistance for patrons. ALD headsets, booster seats and binoculars are available in the lobby. Ushers are available to assist with your performance experience, please contact an usher with concerns. In the auditorium, silence devices and use moderation in applying scented products. Photography/videography is not allowed. Quiet Leah Terada* Rooms are available. Dallas, Texas. Apprentice in 2015, corps de ballet in 2016. PNB.org

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