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Mobsters and mayhem: Taylor's "Rite of Spring" is tongue-in-cheek.

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‘Rite’ of passage

Paul Taylor inherits Stravinsky.

Chefs and Tinies in Prix Fixe.

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Under the microscope

Looking at our lives through two different views.

Disorienting and beautiful: Beth Graczyk and Paige Barnes.

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Between Time

Paige Barnes' new dance piece is full of ideas—and stuff, too.

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Big time

Russian ballet is alive and well.

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Spontaneous generation

Merce Cunningham is still on the edge

Going down: the "truth" as performance art.

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Going up

Elevator Repair Service takes reality to a new level with a metadocumentary.

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Breaking out

Rennie Harris takes to the streets.

They got your back: from left, Phillip Borunda (horizontal), Ray Houle, Alan Sutherland, and Jack Yantis.

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Unpolished but Shiny

The sixth all-male festival mixes styles, skills . . . and genders.

Spasmodic leaps alternating with slow hand gestures.

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Moving pictures

Lies, lines, and colorful backdrops as a choreographer turns painterly.

Mann (left), Lamblin, and Potmesil: like kids in a fabulous story.

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Gong Show

The clanging, kinetic world of Lelavision.

Kitri's signature leap.

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Comic arch

Pratfalls accompany the leaps in PNB's winsome Quixote.

Dance Swan Lake

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Three times the congratulations.

PATRICIA BARKER GALA

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One step beyond

Improvisation takes dancers into another dimension.

Open House

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Open House

Once blocked from Rainier Avenue, Columbia City Theatre reconnects to the street—and to the public.

Magnetism in motion: Pantastico (left) and Porretta.

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Same Dance, New Year

PNB's repertory program is a rewarding opportunity to see revived works in a different light.

We could watch Patricia Barker and PNB perform Ballanchine Agon and again.

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Dance, 1999

Pacific Northwest Ballet (November): There’s a moment in the pas de deux of George Balanchine’s Agon where the…

Lords and ladies a-leapin'! Paquita dancers make room for exposed technique.

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Case en pointe

A hundred years of ballet history in one PNB program.

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Dancers have a thing about heat. They start the day by warming

Dancers have a thing about heat. They start the day by warming up, and spend the rest of…

Freya Wormus (left) and Amie Baca on the ropes.

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Fly Girls

For its 10th anniversary, d9 goes airborne.

George Balanchine in Venice, Italy, in 1926.

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The Ballet Maker

Three celebrations of George Balanchine on his 100th birthday.