Pia Lo is a Dance Ambassador for the Canadian Dance Assembly and travels extensively to find the stories that shape the dance world. In her travels, she has taken company class with the Bolshoi Ballet, pirouetted on the Mariinsky stage and shimmied with belly dancers of The Reda Troupe. She is trained in Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Hip Hop and other styles. In her other life, she holds a Finance degree and works at an international bank. Pia shares her stories on here.
This season's Director's Choice presents three works by choreographers Justin Peck, Alejandro Cerrudo and Paul Gibson, who, according to PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal, are among the "truly gifted" of our time.
The Pacific Northwest Ballet's season opener captures different periods of neoclassical ballet with Christopher Wheeldon's Tide Harmonic, George Balanchine's Prodigal Son and Jerome Robbin's The Concert (or, The Perils of Everybody).
Pia Lo interviews Ex PNB principal and newly appointed associate director of L.A. Dance project Carla Körbes, who looks back on her farewell performance, and talks of future projects.
PNB's production of Kent Stowell's Swan Lake, after Petipa-Ivanov, shines with a stunning Odette / Odile and her company of swans, and shows the common successes and failures of staging this old classic in modern times.
An interview with Ms Feng Ying, Artistic Director of the National Ballet of China, who talks of the company's recent engagements abroad, the History of ballet in China, the company's distinct tradition and the challenges ahead.
