Doug Fullington
Upcoming
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Pacific Northwest Ballet performances
May 30 -June 8, 2025
I'll be conducting the Tudor Choir and Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra in performances of Rena Butler's Cracks as part of PNB's Director's Choice program. Music by Debussy, Fauré, Ljova, Poulenc, Praetorius, and Vivaldi.
Tickers and information here.
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New edition of Giselle from Bärenreiter-Verlag
​Marian Smith and I have nearly completed our critical edition of the orchestra score of Giselle by Adolphe Adam (1841). The Bärenreiter publication will be a hybrid score: a printed score accompanied by online notes and critical apparatus.
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Press
"Meticulous revision. Giselle on a firm footing at last" [t]akte
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Recent
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Artist Talk at University of Utah
April 2025
I enjoyed speaking about my work to the dance majors at the University of Utah and hosting a talk-back following their opening-night Classique performance.
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Raymonda at San Francisco Ballet
March 2025
I had the pleasure of working with Tamara Rojo in August 2019 during the initial stages of planning for her new staging of Raymonda for English National Ballet. I finally had the opportunity to see the result when Raymonda premiered at San Francisco Ballet.
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Press
"SF Ballet's 'Raymonda' adaptation a rarity" San Francisco Examiner
"How SF Ballet and Tamara Rojo Are Giving Raymonda a Powerful Feminist Update" San Francisco Classical Voice​
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Sleeping Beauty staging at Pacific Northwest Ballet
January 2025
With Peter Boal, I staged The Sleeping Beauty from Stepanov notation and other sources for PNB's new production, which features scenery by Preston Singletary, costumes by Paul Tazewell, and projections by Wendall K. Harrington.
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Press & Info
​"Doug Fullington on Awakening Pacific Northwest Ballet's New Sleeping Beauty" Dance Magazine
Doug Fullington, "Staging The Sleeping Beauty at PNB" PNB blog​​​​
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NEW BOOK! Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg
by Doug Fullington and Marian Smith
Oxford University Press, 2024
Available from Oxford, Amazon, and other online booksellers
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Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg offers fascinating new looks at five classic story ballets: Giselle (1841), Paquita (1846), Le Corsaire (1856), La Bayadère (1877), and Raymonda (1898), drawing on a treasure trove of manuscripts that offer explicit written information about how many nineteenth-century ballets were performed in their earliest incarnations. Bursting with details forgotten for more than a century, these manuscripts bring the ballets to life by disclosing steps, floor patterns, and mime conversations as well as valuable insight into how the music helped create the drama.
Generously enriched with more than 50 images and more than 350 musical examples, the book also includes, in appendices, English translations of seven French and Russian librettos. Emerging from the plenteous new findings in this book is a fresh portrait of a living, breathing art form with strong audience appeal. Simply put, Five Ballets fills huge gaps in dance history, inviting both general readers and specialists to rethink the usual narratives about nineteenth-century ballet, its music, characters, and choreographies, its depictions of Others and Elsewhere, and the careers of its major choreographers. It also offers a rich resource to practitioners seeking to learn how the makers of these five classic ballets found such great success.
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​Press
​"Down the Rabbit Hole with Marian Smith and Doug Fullington" Marina Harss / Dancing Around
"Think you know these classic ballets well? Think again." SeeingDance
"An Old Look at the Classics: Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg" Dance Chronicle
