Creating Characters through Movement w/ Principal Dancer NOELANI PANTASTICO of Pacific Northwest Ballet

Noelani Pantastico is from Oahu, Hawaii. She joined the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seatte, Washington in 1997 and rose to a principal dancer in 2004. From 2008, she danced with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and in 2015, Noelani returned to PNB as a principal dancer. In addition to her PNB repetoire, she danced leading roles in Monte-Carlo in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s **Altro Canto, La Belle, Cendrillon; William Forsythe’s New Sleep, and others. She originated roles in Maillot’s Casse-Noisette Compagnie and Lac. She starred in BBC’s version of PNB’s production of Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, filmed at Sadler’s Wells, and performed as a guest artist for New York City Ballet’s Balanchine Centennial. Noelani choreographed Picnic for a collaboration between PNB and Seattle Art Museum presented at Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park. The Creative Process speaks to Noelani in Paris while the Pacific Northwest Ballet was on tour. www.png.org · www.creativeprocess.info