When Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) announced its adieu to the Kent Stowell/Maurice Sendak version of The Nutcracker last year, many of us—and by “us” I mean those rare individuals who have lived in ...

Pacific Northwest Ballet: Nutcracker The original Nutcracker may have been choreographed in 1892 by Lev Ivanov for the Imperial Ballet, but it’s George Balanchine we have to thank for the work ...

as the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s annual holiday performance is moving online for 2020. Families can stream an archival performance of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker performed by the PNB ...

Now trademarked, the Balanchine “Nutcracker” also requires staging experts like Judith Fugate, who danced under Balanchine alongside Pacific Northwest Ballet director Peter Boal, and now trave ...

The Nutcracker is a huge operation for ballet companies. And it's only gotten more complicated during the pandemic. The Pacific Northwest Ballet's production of the Christmastime ballet is live ...

Adjust your eyes: It’s a sparkling new production of “The Nutcracker” at Pacific Northwest Ballet — for the first time since 1983. And it’s actually a mixture of new and old: The holiday ...

SEATTLE, Wash. -- Pacific Northwest Ballet's production of The Nutcracker tells a familiar tale every year. But take a peek behind the curtain for a completely different story. Starring scads of ...

Two films of “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’” one made by Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle and the other by New York City Ballet, began streaming on Friday. But for the current ...

Peer beyond George Balanchine’s crisp choreography and the artistry of the Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers who bring the ballet to life (look for newly appointed principal dancer Leta Biasucci in ...

Stowell, then the artistic director for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Sendak, the famed children’s book illustrator, set out to create a new “Nutcracker.” Their work has become the mainstay ...