Ballet Talk with Pacific Northwest Ballet

Doug Fullington kicks off Pacific Northwest Ballet's 2026/27 Season by walking our audience through SERENADE. On this triple bill program are George Balanchine's Serenade, PNB resident choreographer Jessica Lang's world premiere work Pages, and Alexei Ratmansky's Pictures at an Exhibition. 

Doug covers Serenade's importance in American ballet history (Balanchine's first ballet choreographed in the United States!), debunks a few myths (the original dancers were School of American Ballet students but most were adults), gives a brief overview of Jessica Lang's new work Pages (created while in residence at Ernest Hemingway House in Ketchum, Idaho for Ballet Sun Valley), and finished with Alexei Ratmansky's Pictures at an Exhibition's return to the McCaw Hall stage with the piano score of Modest Mussorgsky's composition of the same name. 

Recorded live in Seattle, WA in the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle Center in September 2026.

Ahead of Pacific Northwest Ballet's 2026/27 Season opening performances of SERENADE. Doug Fullington sat down with Carla Körbes for the dress rehearsal conversation. The two covered Carla's ongoing post-PNB dancer career, Carla's experience with George Balanchine's Serenade as both a dancer and a stager, and more! 

 

Recorded live in the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle, WA on September 24, 2026.

Doug Fullington talks through and answers audience questions about ALL LANG. ALL LANG is made up of three dance works by Jessica Lang: the PNB premiere of her showstopping, joy-fueled work ZigZag set to the songs of Tony Bennett, audience favorite Her Door to the Sky, and the moving Ghost Variations.

Recorded live in the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle, WA on June 6, 2026.

Join PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal in conversation with our Resident Choreographer Jessica Lang on the eve of the final performances of PNB's 2026/27 Season. ALL LANG is made up of three dance works by Jessica Lang: the PNB premiere of her showstopping, joy-fueled work ZigZag set to the songs of Tony Bennett, audience favorite Her Door to the Sky, and the moving Ghost Variations.

Listen as Peter and Jessica talk through her start in dance, transition to choreography, her mentors and collaborators, and fun anecdotes (including that ALL LANG is the first time Jessica Lang has had an evening-length show made up of only her works presented by a dance company outside of her own!)

Recorded live in the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle, WA on May 29, 2026.

Moderator Mari Horita (Seattle Kraken, One Roof Foundation) and panelists Caitlin Oiye Coon (Archives Director, Denshō), James Yoichi Moore (Former PNB Principal Dancer, PNB School Faculty), and AC Petersen (Librettist, Lyricist, Playwright) discuss how arts, culture, and storytelling can help to express identity and advance inclusion. Read more about Momotaro Community Day and the panelists here.

Recorded live in the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle, WA on March 28, 2026.