by Steve Sucato | Nov 5, 2017 | Career, Profiles
Former Pacific Northwest Ballet principal Patricia Barker has taken over as artistic director of Royal New Zealand Ballet. Barker, 54, was named to her new role in June, becoming only the second woman director in RNZB’s 64-year history and the second...
by Steve Sucato | Apr 2, 2015 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. Underneath Grand Rapids Ballet artistic director Patricia Barker’s million-watt smile lies an unyielding determination to realize her artistic visions. So when friend Maurice Sendak, author of...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 27, 2014 | News
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Grand Rapids Ballet, under artistic director and former Pacific Northwest Ballet principal Patricia Barker, debuts a new Nutcracker on December 12. Drawing inspiration from PNB’s...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
If you’re like me, you had at least one photo of Patricia Barker on your wall growing up. The longtime Pacific Northwest Ballet principal was a fearless, eloquent interpreter of Balanchine works, in particular, and ballet fans around the world could write...