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January 30, 2024

Pacific Northwest Ballet

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer James Yoichi Moore has announced that after a 20-year career with the company, he is retiring at the end of PNB's 2023-24 season. Moore joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2004 and was promoted to soloist in 2008 and principal in 2013. His two decades with the company will be celebrated at the Season Encore Performance June 9 at McCaw Hall. Moore and his wife Kristen recently opened two Tutu Schools in Renton and Tacoma. Tutu School is a boutique-style ballet school that caters specifically to children 18 months to eight years old. Early seed money for Moore's Tutu Schools was provided, in part, by Second Stage, PNB's career transition program for its company dancers. Conceived in 1999, Second Stage supports PNB dancers and PNB School Professional Division students in achieving their goals following a career in dance. Moore is from San Francisco, and trained at San Francisco Ballet School and the School of American Ballet. He danced with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre before joining Pacific Northwest Ballet. In 2019, Moore co-founded Seattle Dance Collective with Noelani Pantastico.




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