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ARC Dance is presenting a 20th anniversary retrospective performance next weekend August 10-11 at the Bagley Wright Theatre.  

https://arcdance.org/event/arc-at-20-a-twentieth-anniversary-retrospective-performance/

The company is run by Marie Chong, a former PNB Dancer, and the show features many PNB School and Professional Division alumni including Alice Cao, Erin Crall, Daniel Ojeda, Adam Bloodgood, Mark David Bloodgood, Andre Alabastro, Levi Teachout, and Jimena Flores.

Patricia Barker appointed Artistic Director of Royal New Zealand Ballet

Former PNB Principal Dancer Julie Tobiason has choreographed a new work for the Seattle International Dance Festival's Spotlight on Contemporary Ballet. The cast will feature PNB School & Professional Division Alumna Alice Cao and local artist Joshua Crouch. Performances are June 21-22 7:30pm at Broadway Performance Hall. http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/dance/baryshnikovs-dance-collective-opens-seattle-international-dance-festival/

Casting for week two has been changed. Lesley/Jerome cast will be performing Saturday night.

Save your ballet school petition

We call on Sound Transit to do the right thing and provide just compensation for the full replacement cost of the Pacific Northwest Ballet School’s Francia Russell Center on the Eastside.

A beloved arts facility and cultural asset for the Eastside, the Pacific Northwest Ballet School’s Francia Russell Center will soon be demolished by Sound Transit to make way for new light rail tracks. Sound Transit has offered to pay nearly $5 million less than the cost to build a replacement school of the same size on the Eastside – while very supportive of public transit, PNB cannot afford to cover this cost.

As parents and supporters of PNB and its school, we call on Sound Transit to do the right thing and provide just compensation for the full replacement cost of the Francia Russell Center on the Eastside.

Without just compensation for the full replacement cost, the Francia Russell Center will close on the Eastside – depriving hundreds of students, families and our community of this beloved arts education facility and cultural asset.

Make your voice heard by signing and sharing our petition to call on Sound Transit to do the right thing and provide just compensation for the full replacement cost of the Pacific Northwest Ballet School’s Francia Russell Center on the Eastside.

Since 1986 PNB has operated a ballet school on the Eastside, which today serves a diverse constituency from all over the Eastside. The Francia Russell Center provides dance training for more than 600 students each year with a growing waitlist. PNB provides full and partial scholarships based on financial need to ensure that all students and families have access to programs at the school. The Francia Russell Center also hosts a summer arts education program to hundreds of Eastside students, provides low-cost studio rentals to dance companies, and hosts curriculum-based dance education at Eastside elementary schools during the academic year.

Angelica Generosa doing Stars and Stripes at Vail International Dance Festival

I could watch this for hours

I missed the live stream, as it was morning here on the other side of the world, and I was at work. Any chance a recording will be available? (maybe like when some companies did 'World Ballet Day' on youtube and had the live stream recordings available in their entirety for a few days afterwards)

Is Jonathan Porretta performing "State of Darkness" on the indoor stage or on one of the outdoor platforms?

Looks like it's outdoors! http://www.jacobspillow.org/festival/2014/06/insideout/

Sandik- your wish might come true!

Yeah, Rose Adagio maybe has some tricks—people from outside are coming, some old dancers or something like that—but I can’t tell you. It’s a surprise.

http://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-entertainment/culture-fiend/articles/a-fiendish-conversation-with-kaori-nakamura-may-2014

Yes, Foster/Eames/Griffiths danced the Pas de Trois. The leads aren't onstage in this particular clip selection.

I think the Emeralds and Rubies footage is from 2009, while the Diamonds footage is from 2013. I want to say that Bold stepped in for dress rehearsal with Carla due to Karel being injured, but I'm not positive about that.

I think Emeralds is Rachel Foster/Jeff Station and Chalnessa Eames/Ben Griffith. Diamonds is Carla & Bold. Also, Moor's Pavane looks like Olivier Wevers, not Stanton.

I think that's Chalnessa Eames in Pink

http://seattletimes.com/html/thearts/2022731092_kaorisleepingbeautyxml.html

Kaori Nakamura will be retiring after this season

Act II "Giselle," Wilis led by Lindsi Dec and Sarah Ricard Orza (?)

I think that's Lindsi Dec and Lesley Rausch

Nadeau/Orza (??) in "Nine Sinatra Songs"

Maybe I'm crazy, but that looks like Stanko Milov with Carla to me...

Brunson/Casey Herd (??) in "Kiss"

Looks like Mara Vinson and James Moore

_________ and William Lin-Yee in "Sechs Tanze"

I think Josh Spell or Andrew Bartee, hard to tell

It's the "Nutty Nutcracker" on Christmas Eve- December 24th 4:00pm show

In the still shots

Jeffrey Stanton as Demetrius, but I don't recognize his Helena

Miranda Weese?

Julie Tobiasson as Hermia and Olivier Wevers as Lysander

Hermia looks like Kaori Nakamura

"Agon" first pas de trois. I can't tell who the women are from that short clip.

I think this is Melancholic from Four Temperaments. The girls are Leanne Duge and Carli Samuelson.

I'm not sure what the last clip is from, where he's wearing the brown shirt and black tights.

Maybe Mark Morris' "A Garden"?

The woman who presented flowers to Jordan after Ordinary Festivals was Janie Taylor, principal dancer with New York City Ballet. I'm not sure what the relation between her and Jordan was though.

The corp member Jordan singled out was Leanne Duge, who will also not be returning next season.