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Ballet at the End of the World. 2025 NEXT STEP Choreographer's Showcase at PNB

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Pacific Northwest Ballet School Professional Division students in Lily Wills’  As If Apart , presented during the 2025 NEXT STEP choreographers’ showcase. Photo © Lindsay Thomas. ___________________________________________ That's great! It starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes. An aeroplane. Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn. World serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Speed it up a notch, speak, grunt, no strength The ladders start to clatter with fear fight, down, height Wire in a fire, representing seven games. And a government for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in a hurry with the Furies Breathing down your neck. Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped. Look at that low plane, fine, then! Uh-oh, overflow, population, common food But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the r...
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Of Failed Interviews, Failed Landscapes, Die Antwoord and Nostalgia–We live in an era of terrible beauty and pop conceptualism.

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  Of Failed Interviews, Failed Landscapes, Die Antwoord and Nostalgia–We live in an era of terrible beauty and pop conceptualism. By xavier_lopez_jr     Originally posted on July 1, 2014 | By xavier_lopez_jr Sometimes interviews just go completely wrong, something gets said, misinterpreted or misheard, either the artist is in a foul disposition or as in the case with this one that I had not too long ago–the artist, in this case–me–was just in a wacky mood and probably shouldn’t have agreed to an interview at all that day. Partially, I think it was a combination of me being in a smart-assed state-of-mind and partially it had to do with the fact that for awhile before and after the Sasquatch concert, where-in I and several local artists including Ryan Henry Ward , Andy Miller, TNGLR, the amazing Jonathan Wakuda , Hera Won , Blink, Curt Ashby, Sarah Jorgenson, Jack Shersky, Jan, Melissa Crosetto, Brandy Tomlin (basically, the regular gang!) and tons of other under...
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Pacific Northwest Ballet: May Daze, May Days!

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May 2025, High Pointes Newsletter  |   View in Browser Dance in Bloom So much beautiful dance is blooming here at Pacific Northwest Ballet this May!  Rena Butler  is putting the finishing touches on her new work  Cracks , PNB School students are hard at work on their  end-of-year performances , and  Season Encore , the exciting finale of the 2024/25 season, is coming together. So many gorgeous ballet moments to soak in, so little time! Keep scrolling for updates on everything we're up to this month. Looking Forward We're making plans for  2025/26 ! Did you know this will be Artistic Director Peter Boal's 20th season with the company? We chatted with Boal  on the PNB Blog  about his tenure, and what he's most looking forward to next year. Visit our website to learn more about  this exciting season . DIRECTOR'S CHOICE Our last production of the 2024/25 season opens May 30! Join us for Twyla Tharp's American classic  Nin...
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