Diablo Ballet Launches Dance Laboratory
08/23/2021
August 18, 2021—Walnut Creek-based Diablo Ballet has announced the creation of a dance laboratory to assist talented local choreographers. The dance laboratory is the creation of dancer Felip Leon, who joined Diablo in 2016, to offer local choreographers the opportunity to explore and create new work. "I was inspired to create a new platform for...
After skipping a year in the pandemic, RAWdance's annual outdoor dance festival Choreofest has returned this summer drawing audiences eager to feel the presence of in-person dance perfornaces. Part of the annual Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Choreofest this year is divided into three Saturday afternoons of three performances each day.
Outdoor Performance at Stanford's Updated Frost Amphitheater
Love Stories is the fourth and final performance of Diablo's 27th season. Their last virtual performance before returning to the stage live next season, it was performed and recorded at Diablo Ballet Studio Theatre in Pleasant Hill on June 18. Love Stories features a balanced bill of romantic works, including Sean Kelly's version of the classic...
A Year of Distanced Training Is No Barrier to Their Success
San Francisco Ballet is readying plans to return to live performances in the 2022 Season at the War Memorial Opera House and to celebrate Helgi Tomasson's 37 years as the Company's Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer.
Diablo Ballet Presents Once Upon A Time
05/10/2021
Choreographed by the notable Julia Adam as a family ballet, Once Upon A Time premiered on March 22, 2019 as part of Diablo Ballet's 25th Anniversary season. Fortunately for fans, filmmaker James Yamazaki filmed a live performance onstage for virtual showing to audiences this month.
March 24, 2021—San Francisco Ballet's roster for the 2022 season will include two new promotions and the appointment of four apprentices. Effective July 1, 2021 corps de ballet dancer Jasmine Jimison will be promoted to soloist and apprentice Olivia Brothers to the corps de ballet.
Thatcher's COLORFORMS is a Childlike Joy
02/16/2021
February 16, 2021—Although San Francisco Ballet's Program 02 has been restrained by the distancing limitations of the pandemic, screening two archived performances, one new dance work created expressly for film is a serendipitous product of those limitations. Choreographer Myles Thatcher's premiere work COLORFORMS is named after a children's toy,...