To get into performance art after she retires from ballet. Maybe you wouldn’t expect a principal ballerina who’s been dancing professionally for 20 years to plop down at Streamline Tavern with a pint ...

Eight years ago, Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Noelani Pantastico fell in love. We watched it happen onstage, as she immersed herself in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s stark, dramatic “Roméo et ...

Mid-May in Seattle is often gray and rainy, the kind of weather that makes you want to stay in bed. But on a dreary Monday morning, four Pacific Northwest Ballet company members had no time to wallow ...

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Noelani Pantastico and James Yoichi Moore pine symmetrically in Maillot's Roméo & Juliette. Credit: Angela Sterling If you want something funny and beautiful ...

Soaring leaps are part of the job for a dancer — mostly on stage, but sometimes off. Noelani Pantastico, a longtime and beloved principal dancer at Pacific Northwest Ballet, is about to take a new ...

SEATTLE — Live stage performances may be on hold right now, but a local dance company made sure the show could go on - virtually - and it doesn't cost a thing to watch. Seattle Dance Collective was ...

Lucien Postlewaite remembers exactly how he felt the first time he danced with Noelani Pantastico. “I was this young boy,” he recalls. “I’d always admired Noe’s dancing. The first time she talked to ...

Noelani Pantastico, a principal dancer with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, will take her final bow as a professional dancer this weekend in the PNB’s production of “Roméo et Juliette” at McCaw Hall.