New Faces At Pacific Northwest Ballet

Pacific Northwest Ballet will add new dancers to its company for the 1990-91 season, promote a handful of company members, and say goodbye to seven artists who are retiring or moving to other companies. It will add two dancers later this summer for a total complement of 45.

Joining PNB as soloists are David Peden and Louise Nadeau. Peden was a student at London's Royal Ballet Academy before joining its company, and then danced with National Ballet of Canada in Toronto before coming to Seattle. Nadeau, from the State Ballet of Missouri (formerly Kansas City Ballet), previously danced with Basel Ballet in Switzerland.

Joining PNB as members of the corps are newcomers Barbara Britton, from New York City Ballet; Charles Farruggio, from the School of American Ballet in New York; Anthony Jones, from Minnesota Dance Theater; Christopher Roman, from Cleveland Ballet; and former PNB apprentices Marisa Albee, Bryce Jaffe, and Kerry Parker.

Company members Dagoberto Nieves and Brent Davi have been promoted to soloists for the 1990-91 season, while Alexandra Dickson, Luke Newton-Mason and Malanie Skinner, students at PNB School, are joining PNB as apprentices.

Leaving PNB this season are Alejandra Bronfman, Jeffery Bullock, Lisa Kipp, Reid Olson, Christopher Smidt, Lisa Stolzy and Heidi Vierthaler.

PNB's 1990-91 season opens with the full-length comedy ballet, ``Coppelia,'' Oct. 9 through 11 in the Opera House. Information:

628-0888.

Flamenco artist Teodoro Morca, who teaches dance with his wife, Isabel, in Bellingham, has written a delightful, insightful book, ``Becoming the Dance: Flamenco Spirit'' (Ken-

dall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa; $17.95), the book tells in vivid words and pictures what it means to be a dance artist, particularly a flamenco artist: alive, active and always learning, even in stillness.

Morca, a Los Angeles native who performs occasionally in Seattle, includes a personal as well as Spanish art-form history. He details along the way what distinguishes flamenco and its life-affirming spirit from other dance.

Especially enlightening is the chapter ``Zen and the Art of Flamenco.'' It offers cogent clues to Morca's zealously witty-wise mind - and life.

Notes: Cornish College of the Arts ballet student Devani Maijala, 15, will compete in the Junior Division of the fourth International Ballet Competition on Monday through July 1 in Jackson, Miss.

The 1990 Northwest New Works wraps up its series of new dance and theater works Thursday through June 24 at On the Boards, 153 14th Ave. (325-7901). The program features Michael Clawson's ``Family,'' a touching collaboration with music by Jon Keliehor, sets by visual artist Liza von Rosenstiel and cinema by Karry Fefer.

Sharing the spotlight with Clawson et al at On the Boards will be dancer Gretchen Junker, with filmmaker Jennifer Dice and set designer Lena Sharpe, in live and filmed dances in ``Big Boudoir (The Sulking Room).''