January 27

Pacific Northwest Ballet To Lose 17-Year Veteran

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This article originally appeared on our sister site Queen Anne View.

Ballet dancer Stacy Lowenberg has announced her retirement at the end of this season, ending a 14-year career at Pacific Northwest Ballet in the Seattle Center. Her last show will be June 12, the final PNB performance of the season.

“I think it’s just a good point in time to make a career change,” said Lowenberg. “It’s been an awesome long journey, and I feel humbled that I got the chance to dance this long.”

Lowenberg joined PNB as an apprentice in 1994 and has been dancing for them ever since.

“I’m going to miss it so much, everyone I work with and moving my body all day long and doing something that as a little girl I dreamt of doing.”

Lowenberg, who lives in Fremont with her husband, said she was ready for a change and plans on pursuing different interests, like Pilates and choreography. She began teaching Pilates a few years ago after getting certified and has been working on her own choreography, with seven pieces produced to date. She also plans to take dancing lessons with her husband, which she says she’s never had the energy to do after dancing all day, and to learn to ski, which she’s never been able to do due to the prohibitions of being a professional dancer.

A new work of Lowenberg’s choreography will be shown in the Seattle Dance Project’s upcoming “Project 4,” opening this Friday at The Erickson Theater on Capitol Hill. She will also be dancing in PNB’s performance of Cinderella opening February 4.

From Pacific Northwest Ballet:

Her works have been shown at McCaw Hall, Bumbershoot, Meydenbauer Theatre and on film for the Beijing Olympics. (The Beijing choreography was danced in Seattle before the 2008 Olympics.) Ms. Lowenberg has choreographed for Ballet Theatre of Des Moines, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, PNB Choreographers’ Showcase, and Ballet Bellevue.


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