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Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) is an American ballet company based in Seattle, Washington. It is said to have the highest per capita attendance in the United States, [ 1 ] with 11,000 subscribers in 2004. [ 2 ]
Magali Messac, a French-American ballet dancer, was born and raised in the south of France, where she received her early training from Olga and Henry Taneeff. In 1969, she joined the Hamburg Ballet, and four years later, was promoted to principal dancer. That year, she received the Oberdorfer Culture Award for the most talented young artist.
Francia Russell (born January 10, 1938) is the former co-artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet and former director of Pacific Northwest Ballet School, from 1977 to 2005. She was a soloist with the New York City Ballet, where she later became ballet master.
Carrie Imler (born 1977 or 1978) [1] is an American ballet dancer. She joined the Pacific Northwest Ballet in 1995 and became a principal dancer in 2002. She retired in 2017, following a 22-year career, and started teaching at the company's school.
Sep. 22—An older sister dragged Eli Waunch to his first ballet class at age 9. His two brothers also were talked into going to the session, so that the girls in a Deer Park program could dance ...
He was born in Bedford, New York, in 1965 and began studies at the School of American Ballet (SAB) at age nine. Boal assumed the directorship of Pacific Northwest Ballet in 2005 (from Kent Stowell and Francia Russell ) following a successful career with the New York City Ballet (NYCB) which he joined in 1983 and where he was promoted to soloist ...
With the help of novelist Laura Esquivel, Tony Award–winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon cooks up a cinematic ballet for American Ballet Theatre’s summer season at the Met.
Mary Ann Wells (June 7, 1894 – January 8, 1971) was an American dance teacher known for her significant contributions to the field of dance education. Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, Wells began her career as the first ballet teacher at the Cornish School of Music in Seattle.