Editor's Note: There's an outdoor and indoor portion to this event, detailed below. We only have the times listed for the free, outdoor portion in our calendar listing.
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s innovative annual choreographers’ showcase, returns for its annual one-night-only outing on Friday, June 14, with original danceworks bursting out of McCaw Hall and onto the grounds of Seattle Center! The festival of new dance works will feature a cornucopia of choreography created in collaboration with the Seattle dance community in addition to the traditional premieres of works produced by PNB company dancers. NEXT STEP: OUTSIDE/IN will be presented one night only, Friday, June 14 around the Seattle Center campus and inside Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer Street. Admission to the IN portion of the evening is ridiculously bargain-priced at only $25 and includes admittance to the onstage performances and a post-show Q&A with the choreographers. Tickets may be purchased through the PNB Box Office, 206.441.2424 or PNB.org.
The evening begins OUTSIDE at 6:00 pm with free, rotating performances of five new danceworks: A solo dance created by Christopher D’Ariano and performed by PNB soloist Elle Macy; A piece choreographed by Mark Haim, set on PNB principal dancer Noelani Pantastico with six student dancers from the PNB School; 7Seven7 featuring work choreographed and performed by the students of PNB’s New Voices: Choreography and Process for Young Women in Dance, under the direction of Eva L. Stone; A work by Dammiel Cruz, performed by REACH Student Dance Group (a partnership between PNB and Spectrum Dance Theatre); and a major extravaganza in Seattle Center’s International Fountain choreographed by Ron Gatsby and performed by the dancers of Purple Lemonade Collective. Food trucks and carts from C. Davis Texas BBQ, Frankie & Jo’s, and Taqueria La Original will add to theOUTSIDE festivities.
The shindig then moves into McCaw Hall at 7:30 for the IN portion of the evening, with six premieres by PNB choreographers Nancy Casciano, Christopher D’Ariano, Steven Loch, Amanda Morgan, Sarah Pasch, and Calista Ruat, all set on the Professional Division student dancers of PNB School – the dance stars of tomorrow, on stage today.
Event timeline:
- 6:00 pm - FREE public performances on the grounds of Seattle Center. (Free maps and showtime guides distributed from kiosks at McCaw Hall.)
- 7:30 pm - NEXT STEP performance inside McCaw Hall (Admission required)
- 9:30 pm - Post-performance Q&A with choreographers in the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall (Free with admission)
