Pacific Northwest Ballet: Director's Choice June 5, 2009

"Make more," Balanchine said when Jerome Robbins first showed him 'Dances at a Gathering.' A major PNB acquisition, 'Dances' has been praised as "essential Robbins, an effortless evocation of community...just music and dance create a world of sunlight and open air." (The New York Times). Christopher Wheeldon's 'After the Rain pas de deux' rendered audiences breathless at its premiere and was described as "Spare and poignant, the duet intimates a renewal of faith, the reburgeoning of love." (The Village Voice). With 'Symphony in C,' balance, harmony and the satisfying order of classical ballet goes on virtuoso display as Balanchine's full-company pageant of technical prowess.