“Fly Through the Night” Opens in Oakland This Fall
Nancy Karp + Dancers will celebrate its 40th anniversary year with three performances of the world premiere of fly through the night, and land near dawn October 28-30 … Read more
Dance
Local Critics Praise SF Ballet’s “Swan Lake”
Helgi Tomasson’s 37th and final season as Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer with Swan Lake, through May 8 at the War Memorial Opera House. Tomasson, who … Read more
SF Ballet’s Program 4 Gets Under Way Next Week
BOURNONVILLE’S LA SYLPHIDE RETURNS AFTER 25 YEARS San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) and Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson will present the west coast premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s The … Read more
Critics Laud SF Ballet’s “Don Quixote”
As noted in an ealier post, Don Quixote marks the first of two evening-length story ballets in the San Francisco Ballet’s 2022 Season. The performance received … Read more
Kaleidoscopic Spectacle: “Don Quixote” is a Story Ballet to Cherish
San Francisco Ballet will open Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson and Choreographer-in-Residence Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote on February 26. With performances at the War Memorial Opera House through March … Read more
Program Two is Another Success for San Francisco Ballet
As noted in an earlier post, SF Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson, in his 37th and final season, presented Program 1 last Tuesday to critical acclaim. … Read more
SF Ballet Season Gets Off to a Rousing Start
Last evening, SF Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson, in his 37th and final season, presented George Balanchine’s Symphony in C on Program 1. Hailed as one of the … Read more
“Mrs. Robinson” World Premiere With SF Ballet
San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet), the Company and School that has been an innovator in dance since its founding in 1933, begins its repertory season … Read more
Tamara Rojo to Become New San Francisco Ballet Executive Director
San Francisco Ballet today announced the appointment of Tamara Rojo, its first new artistic director in nearly four decades and first woman to lead the internationally-recognized … Read more
Hardiman Headlines Haiti Relief Benefit
We first became familiar with David Hardiman at the legendary thoroughbred race track Golden Gate Fields, where he presides as the bugler. As a preamble to the … Read more