by Rachel Hellwig | Mar 14, 2019 | Career, Profiles
It’s rare for a professional ballet career to extend two decades or more. But there are indeed dancers who’ve been gracing the studio and stage for that long—learning, adapting and growing along the way. Today, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s...
by Marcie Sillman | Dec 15, 2017 | Profiles
Lucien Postlewaite’s Prince was anything but charming last February in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production of Cendrillon, Jean-Christophe Maillot’s contemporary take on the Cinderella story. He strutted and preened, egged on by his friends. But...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 5, 2016 | Profiles, Show and Tell
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. You’d be hard pressed to find a pair of ballet slippers in Noelani Pantastico’s dance bag. Instead, you’ll find a pair of socks—and plenty of pointe shoes. The Pacific...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Dec 12, 2015 | Company Life
Former Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Noelani Pantastico has returned to the company after a seven-year stint with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. She made her first appearance in November, in PNB’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker....
by Caitlin Sims | Jun 1, 2008 | Career, Company Life, Features
Maria Kowroski As a 13-year-old ballet student in Michigan, Maria Kowroski was surprised to be cast in a jazz work set to Nine Inch Nails for a school show. “I liked that I wasn’t labeled a ballet dancer,” she remembers, “and that someone took...
