“Ballet Pacifica has canceled so many projects and seasons in the last few years that the announcement Monday of the imminent closure of its school and the indefinite ‘hiatus’ of its performing company didn’t come as a shock but rather as just one more stage in its well-documented free fall… If an official notice of once-and-for-all termination arrives in a month or so, it will almost seem like deja vu, and any regret will be over the institution’s failure of vision as much as its funding.”