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JUNE 02, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 22
A return to the stage this fall After hectic 2020, new PNB season to be live
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DR. UNIVERSE
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By Jessica Keller
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QA&Mag News editor
As Pacific Northwest Ballet wraps up its 2020-21 digital offerings, marking the end of a tumultuous season complete with fits and starts and a shift to a new direction last spring, attention is now turning to what is next for the company. To that end, PNB recently announced plans to return to live performances for its 49th season, which takes place from September through June 2022 at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. at the Seattle Center. The decision is a welcome one for directors and staff at Pacific Northwest Ballet after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the 2020-21 season. Pacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director Peter Boal looks forward to emerging from behind the curtain at McCaw Hall and greeting the audience in person, while PNB Executive Director
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Photo © AngelaSterlingPhoto.com. Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Seth Orza as Tybalt, center, performs with company dancers in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s ‘Roméo et Juliette,’ which PNB presented online as part of its all-digital 2020-21 season. PNB will bring the ballet back live on stage for the upcoming 2021-22 season. Ellen Walker said she is looking forward to audiences one again enjoying live performances. While the return to live performances is the first step back to normal for PNB, both Boal and Walker said last year taught some hard, but valuable, lessons in resiliency and adapting to difficult
circumstances. When it became clear 2020 was not going to be a regular year for PNB because of the pandemic, the regulations that shuttered live performances and uncertain timelines regarding reopening, ballet administrators decided that the best way to salvage the season was
to pivot to a digital format. “There was no road map for this, and we just said let’s do it,” Boal said. Keeping dancers and theatrical support staff and musicians employed was a top priority, he said.
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Inslee vetoes raise legislators’ ire
By Ruairi Vaughan Contributing writer
At the end of Washington state’s legislative session in late April, Gov. Jay Inslee praised lawmakers in the state House and Senate for “a historic and truly extraordinary session … as all-encompassing as any legislative session of the past 25 years.” However, recent days have made it clear that not every law emerging from the state legislature has met with Inslee’s full approval. Inslee has issued a number of partial and full vetoes to a variety of bills, drawing anger
from across the politihad been an important cal spectrum, as well as part of negotiations from nonpartisan between Democrats actors. and Republicans in the The most signifiLegislature, and leadcant of the Governor’s ers from both parties vetoes concern climate argued that Inslee’s acchange legislation. On tions undermined trust. May 17, Inslee signed House Speaker Laurie laws creating a stateJinkins, D-Tacoma, wide program to cap said Inslee’s action Gov. Jay Inslee carbon emissions and “reached beyond his set a clean fuels stanconstitutional powdard, but he vetoed ers,” while Minority language in the bill that linked Leader John Braun, R-Centralia, them to funding for a major bluntly called his move “illegal.” statewide transportation initiative. Another climate-related veto The transport aspect of the bill stirred up ever more anger. Inslee
struck down part of SB 5126 — the carbon-cap bill — that required consultation with Native American tribal leaders over climate change-related projects on tribal lands. Inslee’s spokesperson said that the bill “was written so broadly that would have made it possible to challenge just about any related project anywhere in the state.” Native American leaders, however, were unhappy. Fawn Sharp, the president of the National Congress of American Indians, called it “the most egregious and
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