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Jerome Robbins won awards for his work on West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof. Today, Pacific Northwest Ballet's Peter Boal recalls Jerome's legacy and mentorship. We also get tips for selecting fresh salmon and meet a Seattle resident who is reaching out to Palestine.

For 11 years, Olivier Wevers has performed as a principal dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet. But if ballet is his constant companion, his paramour is choreography. For the past six months, Wevers has been creating a new dance for ten of his PNB colleagues. As KUOW's Marcie Sillman reports, the process of choreography requires vision, perserverance, and most of all, courage.

Pacific Northwest Ballet has 43 company dancers, 19 of them are men. That's a pretty healthy number. Dance in general, ballet in particular, is not a traditional career path for men. Yet those who choose it say they couldn't have taken any other road. KUOW's Marcie Sillman introduces us to several generations of men who say they just have to dance.

On any given day in the United States, you'll find thousands of kids taking ballet lessons. Only a talented few will make it as professional dancers. And if they do, the ballets they perform may not be your grandmother's Swan Lake. Three years ago, New York City Ballet dancer Peter Boal took over the artistic leadership at Pacific Northwest Ballet. As KUOW's Marcie Sillman reports, his goal is to preserve ballet's classical roots, and at the same time, help to push the boundaries of this traditional art form.