Doug Fullington is a dance historian and musicologist with a focus on nineteenth-century French and Russian ballet. Doug is Assistant to Peter Boal and Audience Education Manager at Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) and also the founder and director of the Tudor Choir, a professional vocal ensemble based in Seattle since 1993. A fluent reader of Stepanov choreographic notation, Doug has contributed revived dances to The Daughter of Pharaoh for the Bolshoi Ballet (2000); “Le jardin animé” from Le Corsaire for PNB School (2004); Le Corsaire for Bavarian State Ballet (2007); Giselle with Marian Smith and Peter Boal for PNB (2011), and Paquita with Alexei Ratmansky and Marian Smith for Bavarian State Ballet (2014). In 2016, he staged a streamlined revival of Le Corsaire for PNB 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. Doug been a frequent presenter and moderator for the Guggenheim Museum’s Works and Process series. In 2016, he was a resident fellow at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts and also a research fellow at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Doug is currently is editing the first critical edition of the score of Giselle for Bärenreiter and writing a book for Oxford University Press about using 19th-century sources to revive ballets, both with his colleague Marian Smith.
