Abstract Expressions at Pacific Northwest Ballet as 3 Powerhouse Women Choreographers across Ballet History Rule the Stage!
Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers in Crystal Pite's The Seasons' Canon. PNB presents The Seasons' Canon on a triple-bill with additional works by Jessica Lang and Twyla Tharp, onstage at Seattle Center's McCaw Hall April 12 - 21, 2024 (and streaming April 25 - 29.) For tickets and information, contact the PNB Box Office, 206.441.2424 or PNB.org. Photo (c) Angela Sterling, 2022. Abstraction has always been a very important element, concept and ideal inflecting every movement throughout the history of art--and ballet has also been influenced by the ideals of abstraction. While many of ballet's best known dances are mainly narrative storytelling, ballet has always had elements of the abstract--scenes that because of the nature of the ballet as mute and gestural, often have that aspect that speaks toward abstraction. At it's most elemental, before narrative, without elaborate costumes and complex stage settings, silent--except for wordless music and the sou...