Noelani Pantastico has been a dancer for the Pacific Northwest Ballet twice - once from 1997 to 2008 and again from 2015 to the present at this writing. In between, she was a soloist for Les Ballets de-Monte-Carlo. She had worked her way up to principal at the Pacific Northwest Ballet before she left in 2008, and she has been a principal there since her 2015 return.
Actually, home for Ms. Pantastico is Hawaii. She grew up on the island of Oahu, and she came to the mainland to to train. She got her first Pacific Northwest Ballet School gig thanks to her tutelage at its school from 1994 to 1996. joining as an apprentice a year after before working her way up to corps the ballet, soloist, and then principal.
Among her credits are roles in Cendrillon, Men's Dance for Women, Opus 40, Scheherazade, Le Songe, and Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Altro Canto. Ms. Pantastico also choreographed Picnic for Sculptured Dance, a collaboration between Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Art Museum.
Fun fact: Ms. Pantastico was featured in a Pacific Northwest Ballet production of George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream that was filmed by the BBC and aired on that network in 1999.
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