Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Noelani Pantastico and James Yoichi Moore have launched a brand-new company called Seattle Dance Collective. PNB principals and soloists I’ve gushed over in these pages—including Angelica Generosa, Elizabeth Murphy, Dylan Wald, Miles Pertl, and others—join Whim W’Him’s Liane Aung and Jim Kent to compose the first iteration of the group, which will likely morph over the years.
At a recent rehearsal for their first show, Program One—a medley of six contemporary dance pieces that premieres at Vashon Center for the Arts on July 12—Pantastico told me the company allows her and Moore to do work they’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t, work that allows them to express themselves as individual artists and directors.
