Peter Boal, the artistic director of the Seattle-based Pacific Northwest Ballet, may be waiting until he's sure New Yorkers are in love with the company's excellent dancers before he brings all 48 of them here. And they'd need a stage bigger (hence more expensive) than the Joyce to perform the works by George Balanchine that have formed the bedrock of PNB's repertory since the company's founding in 1972. At Jacob's Pillow this past summer, 16 PNB dancers performed a program of works by the late Ulysses Dove, and only 21 came to New York to dance ballets created for them in 2008 by Twyla Tharp and Benjamin Millepied, as well as a duet by Edwaard Liang and a... More >>>