Mostly, since 1979, when I joined the Pacific Northwest Ballet as a student.

My scrap book… the photo album. At my retirement the audience was allowed to write down their good wishes. I realized that I knew so many people in the audience.

My first pair of pointe shoes. It was magical to be on pointe for the first time. It’s what every little girl dreams of. I got to fulfill my dreams and the dreams of others, too.

Yes. The shoes I wore performing Sleeping Beauty. It’s the most difficult role for a dancer. From Act I to Act II you are on stage the whole time…[all the way] to the dream scene. The hardest pas de deux is at the end. You need good shoes to last and survive. You can go through 200 pairs per season. By the end, you are spent.

One pair of shoes is signed by one of the most famous dancers, Alexandra Danilova. They’re from 1945.

I have been asked for my first and last pairs of pointe shoes…offered a lot of money. I think one day I will sell them at auction and put the money in the Patricia Barker Endowed Scholarship Fund at PNB to enable dancers, other than myself, to fulfill dreams.