By Marcie Sillman Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new season, opening later this month, will be the first in more than two decades without longtime principal Lesley Rausch. The ballerina was acclaimed for nuanced performances in everything from Swan Lake to Ulysses Dove’s very contemporary Red Angels. She will be missed, but Rausch’s retirement is an inflection
By Sanjoy Roy Like voters, audiences can be simultaneously essential, dissenting, and unfathomable. Take the sold-out mixed program by Nederlands Dans Theater at Sadler’s Wells, featuring one old and two new pieces. Everything looked great and was danced brilliantly (a sound reason for the company’s enduring popularity). What about the works? Audiences, fans, and critics
By Tessa Perkins Deneault “There are certain things we can’t explain and ways we’re connected that don’t have any basis in our regular logic,” says Vancouver-based choreographer Lesley Telford. “We’re connected in so many ways, like the unseen roots of trees.” Connection across distance, and the relationship between people and how they impact each other,