PNB PROGRAM REFLECTS ONE MASTER'S INFLUENCE ON ANOTHER.(What's Happening)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: January 24, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: R.M. CAMPBELL P-I dance critic

This season Pacific Northwest Ballet has devised a number of mixed bills with considerable interest, but none more so than the program pairing works of George Balanchine and Marius Petipa. It opens Thursday night at Mercer Arts Arena.

"This is a case of one master following the other," said Francia Russell, co-artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet and an internationally acknowledged Balanchine expert. "I like the juxtaposition of Petipa and Balanchine, starting out with traditional Petipa (`Paquita') and ending with a ...

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