Director's Choice

Director's Choice is Pacific Northwest Ballet artistic director Peter Boal's spring breeze of ballets, specially selected to show off innovative new work and modern-era classics that could stand another look. This year, the stage will blacken with David Dawson's sharp and agressive Empire Noir, then yield to the slo-mo, geometric entanglements of William Forsythe's duet-heavy New Suite, and then burst into color with Jessica Lang's Her Door to the Sky, which looks like a Georgia O'Keeffe painting come alive.