Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian 5 STARS OUT OF 5 (Want to know what exactly our star ratings mean? Check out our explanations here) Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of my favorite plays. It stands to reason that Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of my favorite ballets of all time—though for different reasons. Both are funny,…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian 3.5 STARS OUT OF 5 (Want to know what exactly our star ratings mean? Check out our explanations here) Marie, Dancing Still is a solid new musical theater work inspired by the famous sculpture Little Dancer of Fourteen Years of prominent 19th-century artist Edgar Degas–or, more accurately, the subject of the sculpture. It was modeled…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty 4.5 STARS OUT OF 5 (Want to know what our star ratings mean? Check out our review formatting here) The original The Sleeping Beauty by Marius Petipa is regarded as the highest achievement of 19th-century ballet, premiering in St. Petersburg at the Maryinsky Theatre in 1890. Since then, it has…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian The Nutcracker has a certain magic to it no matter how impressive the production and no matter what the quality of the dancers or musicians is. There’s just something to it that feels like gentle warmth from a fireplace, or a soothing mug of tea. However, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian An evening at Velocity on Sunday, October 20, 2018. The Midsummer, by Beth Terwilleger, is a new work for her new dance company, The Gray, here in Seattle. I find it appropriate that her double-debut is the subject of my first article for the Seattle Central Collegian. Because I arrived early, I got the rare…