PNB Dancers to Guest with NYCB Spring '04

[Helene]

According to Francia Russell and Kent Stowell, Artistic Directors of Pacific Northwest Ballet, in a Q&A after tonight's Balanchine Centerary program, dancers Noelani Pantastico and Olivier Wevers (which they pronounced like "waivers"), will dance the second movement of Brahms/Schoenberg Quartet with NYCB in May.

These two dancers are worth seeing, especially in these roles.

Patricia Barker will also be part of a lecture by Maria Tallchief on Firebird, but Russell and Stowell didn't give any more details.

[Leigh Witchel]

How exciting for both of them and for us in NYC too! I don't think I've seen Pantastico dance since around '96 when she danced Alan Hineline's Sans Souci with CPYB. She's part of a great crop - when I saw them the first time in '95, dancing at the same time

Ryan Kelly - went on to NYCB

Jonathan Stafford - NYCB

Adam Hendrickson - NYCB

Adrienne Schulte - ABT

Abi Stafford - NYCB

Ashley Bouder - NYCB

Mishic Corn - Cincinnati Ballet

And I've forgotten several others.

And this will be the first time I get to see Olivier on stage! I've seen him briefly in rehearsal, and many of us know him on the board through his posts here.

If anyone knows the approximate dates, could they please post them?

[Helene]

And this will be the first time I get to see Olivier on stage!  I've seen him briefly in rehearsal, and many of us know him on the board through his posts here.

If anyone knows the approximate dates, could they please post them?

Wevers has been stellar in the Balanchine Centenary, most notably in the second movement of the Brahms, but also as one of the "Theme" men (with Christophe Maraval) in Divertimento No. 15, and as Louise Nadeau's partner in the Agon pas de deux.

If we hear about the dates out here before the casting goes up, I'll add them to the thread.

BTW, Carrie Imler was also trained in the miracle garden of CPYB, but she would have left for the PNB school somewhere between '92 and '94; she graduated into the Company in '95.