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O'Neal dances about borrowing.

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Opening Nights: Amy O’Neal

Demonstrating that "how we mix makes us original."

Korbes before Cinderella's transformation.

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Opening Nights: Cinderella

A family-friendly ballet lures the audiences of the future.

Francia Russell and Kent Stowell in the late '70s.

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Fall Arts: PNB at 40

Our critic traces the evolution of an institution.

Dancers Jones Jr. and Monthy share a stage.

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Opening Nights: LOVE

Dance on the dark side of the emotion, set to some great Britten.

Would you like to write them a letter?

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Opening Nights: A Paper Trail

KT Niehoff gives dance audiences a little homework.

Lee's 26-foot golden wheel may be the star of Carmina Burana.

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Opening Nights: Apollo and Carmina Burana at PNB

Balanchine strips down while Stowell gets zesty and fecund.

Lindsi Dec (foreground) and Lesley Rausch in A Million Kisses.

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Opening Nights: New Works at PNB

Showing off a company's versatility.

They won't dance: Galli (kneeling) and Skerritt are surprisingly effective.

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Opening Nights: Don Quixote

PNB dancers tear up the stage in this Spanish holiday.

Opening Nights: Project 5

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Opening Nights: Project 5

Seattle Dance Project marks a birthday.

Students from PNB's ballet school (pictured) often graduate to the Nutcracker corps.

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Dance: It’s Nutcracker Time at PNB

PNB corps members recall their first encounter.

Like snow, Cabiri performers hang in the sky.

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Opening Nights: Winternacht

An airborne celebration of dark pagan mythology. With dessert.

Monthy and Jones in a dance of domestic combat.

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Opening Nights: The Beast

Donald Byrd's dance of domestic abuse.

The brute (Orza) meets the feckless temptress (Korbes) at PNB.

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Opening Nights: PNB’s “All Wheeldon”

Spotlighting the choreographer's curiosity about dancing of all sorts.

Witt is inheritor, not curator, this season.

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All Under One Roof

Meany Hall's new director, Michelle Witt, has to make sense of a hybrid institution.

Chalnessa Eames and Josh Spell in The Piano Dance.

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Opening Nights: PNB’s Contemporary 4

Dance doesn't need a story to make an impression.

Imler as the Fairy Godmother.

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Opening Nights: Cinderella

PNB's ever-popular fairy tale.

Magicians reveal their tricks.

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Opening Nights: hold . . . hold on . . .

The thrills of climbing walls and defying gravity.

German wields her macramé parasol.

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Dance Review: Mold and Macrame

Wear your dust mask and keep moving at this decay-centric performance installation.

Kaori Nakamura (left) shows her street cred.

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Opening Nights: PNB’s “All Tharp”

Dancers claim they never work harder than in her choreography.

Opening Nights: Ayudapii

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Opening Nights: Ayudapii

Arresting images in a plastic-lined bomb shelter.