Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist Amanda Morgan as Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis, in Peter Boal’s acclaimed staging of Giselle . PNB presents Giselle onstage at Seattle Center’s McCaw Hall, April 10 – 19, 2026 . For tickets and information, contact the PNB Box Office, 206.441.2424 or PNB.org. Photo © Angela Sterling. Lately, like a lot of us in the past few years, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about reality and, especially the realities of life and death—you know, the big things. The questions that we all ask; in sum, the questions that keep us awake at night, which haunt our dreaming and waking moments. Interestingly, a couple of days ago, in the middle of an average, run-of-the-mill conversation, my brother looked me, directly in my hazel orange/green eyes and asked, “Xavier—are you afraid of death?” I took a deep breath. Now, what would, under normal circumstances have been a difficult enough question to a...