Doug Fullington

 

 

Born and raised in Seattle, Doug Fullington is a dance historian and musicologist. Doug received degrees in music and law from the University of Washington and has since taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the School of Music as a visiting scholar and auxiliary member of the faculty. In 2020 Doug was a guest instructor at Princeton University. Having recently returned to school, Doug earned a Ph.D. in music history at the University of Washington in 2022.

 

Doug’s work in ballet is focused on nineteenth-century French and Russian source material. A fluent reader of Stepanov choreographic notation, he has contributed historically informed dances to a number of productions, including The Pharaoh's Daughter for the Bolshoi Ballet (2000); “Le jardin animé” from Le Corsaire for Pacific Northwest Ballet School (2004); Le Corsaire for Bayerisches Staatsballett (2007); Giselle with Marian Smith and Peter Boal for Pacific Northwest Ballet (2011), and Paquita with Alexei Ratmansky and Marian Smith for Bayerisches Staatsballett (2014). In 2016, he staged a one-act version of Le Corsaire for Pacific Northwest Ballet School.

 

Doug’s writings on dance have been published in Ballet Alert!, Ballet Review, Dance View, and Dancing Times and online by Oxford University Press. He is currently writing a book for Oxford University Press with his colleague Marian Smith about source material for nineteenth-century ballets.

 

Doug has been a frequent presenter and moderator for the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series. In 2016 he was a resident fellow at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts and a research fellow at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.

 

Doug spent twenty-five years with Pacific Northwest Ballet (Seattle), most recently as Assistant to Artistic Director Peter Boal and Audience Education Manager.

 

Doug is also the founder and director of the Tudor Choir, a professional vocal ensemble based in Seattle since 1993. He has a particular interest in the music of Tudor England and early American repertory. As a countertenor, Doug has performed with the Tudor Choir and Byrd Ensemble, was a member for fourteen years of the Compline Choir of St. Mark’s Cathedral (Seattle), and performed with the London-based Tallis Scholars in England, France, and the United States during the years 2000–2002.

 

In addition to his work with the Tudor Choir, Doug has conducted the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and Seattle Baroque Orchestra. He was instrumental in establishing the Tallis Scholars Summer Schools USA and in 2019 was a tutor on the Byrd International Singers' Scotland Renaissance Course.

 

With Marian Smith, Doug is currently editing the first critical edition of Adolphe Adam’s Giselle (1841) for Bärenreiter Verlag.

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