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January 21, 2022
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Noelani Pantastico has announced that after a 25-year dancing career, she is retiring to accept a position on the faculty of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB). Pantastico trained at CPYB before being hired at PNB in 1997. She was promoted to soloist in 2001 and principal in 2004. In 2008, she left PNB to join Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. In 2015, she returned to PNB as a principal dancer. Pantastico plans to continue as co-artistic director of Seattle Dance Collective, the company she founded in 2019 with fellow PNB principal dancer James Yoichi Moore. PNB audiences have at least two more opportunities to watch Pantastico perform, in the lead role of Jean-Christophe Maillot's “Roméo et Juliette,” Feb. 4–13. Pantastico is scheduled to dance on opening night and closing matinee, as well as additional performances to be announced. Visit PNB.org for up-to-date casting.