Pacific Northwest Ballet: Roméo et Juliette
Recommended
This event is in the past
Multiple dates through February 13, 2022
McCaw Hall
Uptown (Seattle)
This is an in-person event
$30 - $190
Romeo et Juliette is a PNB classic, featuring music by Prokofiev and choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot. Back in 2009, when Pacific Northwest Ballet first performed this version, Jen Graves wrote that artistic director Peter Boal "has beefed up PNB's short, experimental repertory, but his updating of [Kent Stowell's] Romeo and Juliet with Roméo et Juliette is proof that he's undermining convention on all fronts, refusing to ghettoize experimentalism. His unified vision can reach even the big-story ballets. And the audience is eating it up. It's understandable: Roméo et Juliette is hot. It seduces the audience with everything the dancers have, not just some of it—their command and their release; their Olympian ability not just to spin bolt upright but also to ache; their fingers, eyes, mouths; their acting. Feels are copped. Making out is not symbolized: It occurs."
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal Noelani Pantastico will retire from the stage for the last time after this Sunday matinee. Read more about the star dancer from Rich Smith in The Stranger here.