PNB’s Nutcracker ‘a great way to celebrate the season’

Cover image: Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers and PNB School students in the finale of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, choreographed by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. PNB’s production features sets and costumes designed by Ian Falconer. (Photo © Angela Sterling) The production is sumptuous, the children entrancing, the music superbly played, the sets and costumes gorgeous particularly with the unobtrusive presence of Olivia the pig in a box by the proscenium wearing the very same dress as Clara. Thus, the start of this year’s production of Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at McCaw Hall by Pacific Northwest Ballet had all