NOELANI PANTASTICO is from Oahu, Hawaii. At the age of 11, Ms. Pantastico entered the renowned Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, where she studied for six years. After graduating from the school in 1997, she was then engaged by the Pacific Northwest Ballet, as an apprentice. She was promoted to corps de ballet in 1998 and to Soloist in 2001. In 2004, she was made a Principal.
In 1998, Ms. Pantastico was nominated by Francia Russell for the Princess Grace of Awards and in that same year was invited to dance at the acclaimed Aoyama Festival in Tokyo, Japan and at the Jackson, Mississippi Ballet competition. Ms. Pantastico was featured in the BBC’s 1999 film version of PNB’s production of Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, filmed at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London. In 2004, she performed the second movement of Balanchine’s Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet as a guest artist for New York City Ballet’s Balanchine Centennial.
In July of 2008, Ms. Pantastico joined Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo as a Soloist dancer.
Ms. Pantastico has danced leading roles in George Balanchine’s Agon, Apollo, Ballet Imperial, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Chaconne, Concerto Barocco, Divertimento No. 15, Duo Concertant, Emeralds, The Four Temperaments, La Sonnambula, La Valse, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia, Divertissement pas de deux), Rubies, Serenade, Square Dance, Stars and Stripes, Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements, Theme and Variations, and Who Cares?; Val Caniparoli’s The Bridge, Lambarena, and Torque; Ulysses Dove’s Vespers; Nacho Duato’s Jardí Tancat and Rassemblement; William Forsythe’s In the middle somewhat elevated and One Flat Thing, reproduced. (Yoko); Paul Gibson’s Rush; Ronald Hynd’s The Merry Widow (Valencienne) and The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora); Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Romeo et Juliette (Juliette); Peter Martins’ Fearful Symmetries; Mark Morris’s Pacific; Kevin O’Day’s [soundaroun(d)ance]; David Parsons’ Caught; Marius Petipa’s Esmeralda Pas de Deux and Paquita; Kirk Peterson’s Amazed in Burning Dreams; Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free, In the Night and The Concert; Kent Stowell’s Carmen, Carmina Burana, Cinderella (Cinderella), Coppélia (Swanilda), Duo Fantasy, Firebird, Hail to the Conquering Hero, Palacios Dances, Pas de Deux Campagnolo, Quaternary, Silver Lining, Swan Lake (Odette/Odile), and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Juliet); Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s The Ballad of You and Me, Mercury, and The Quilt; Glen Tetley’s Voluntaries; Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, Nine Sinatra Songs and Waterbaby Bagatelles; and Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia. Kent Stowell created Dual Lish for Ms. Pantastico in 2004. She also originated leading roles in Dominique Dumais’ Time and other Matter, Paul Gibson’s The Piano Dance and Sense of Doubt, Victor Quijada’s Suspension of Disbelief, and Christopher Stowell’s Quick Time and Zaïs, Susan Stroman’s Take Five, More or Less.
