By Michael Phelan, April 26, 2023—San Francisco Ballet is wrapping up its 90th, and final season of Helgi Tomasson's planning, with a grand and emotional Romeo & Juliet that befits the marking of this milestone. At last night's performance, Misa Kuranaga and Joseph Walsh were exceptionally moving partnered in the leading roles. The extravagant...
April 22, 2023—San Francisco Ballet announced yesterday that Danielle St. Germain had left the position of Executive Director. Her exit comes thirteen months after SF Ballet announced her appointment in a press release on March 18, 2022, after she had held the position of Interim Executive Director of SF Ballet for nine months.
April 10, 2023—Amy Seiwert wears many hats, as Artistic Director of Imagery ballet company, as a nationally renowned choreographer, and as a creative dance filmmaker. Yet she is donning another artistic hat as Associate Artistic Director of Smuin Ballet beginning in August. The announcement by Smuin Ballet comes two weeks before Seiwert's newest...
March 9, 2023—Smuin Contemporary Ballet announced yesterday that their 29th Annual Gala raised a total of $438,000 to help support the company. Held on Sunday, March 5th at The Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center, the gala's features included performances by company dancers, a live auction featuring "one-of-kind experiences," and more. The...
February 25, 2023—Last night San Francisco Ballet opened this season's spectacular Giselle with a large cast in a variety of colorful costumes, creative sets, but especially with vibrant and emotive dancing.
February 12, 2023—Diablo Ballet has started 2023 with an ambitious program of four works at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. Titled Swan Lake Suite after the centerpiece work of this performance of four works, two modern and two traditional, the Company's new year is off to a great start.
January 26, 2023—Last night, San Francisco Ballet opened the third and final production of the next@90 Festival with an uneven set of three performances. Celebrating the Company's 90th anniversary, the Festival has presented three premiere productions, each by three choreographers. The final production includes premieres by choreographers Claudia...
December 8, 2022—On the threshold of their 90th season, last night San Francisco Ballet opened their 78th delightful Nutcracker. The thirty-third Nutcracker choreographed by former Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson, it is the first of SFB's Nutcracker's with Tamara Rojo filling Tomasson's big shoes, and is essentially unchanged except for scaling...
December 2, 2022—Smuin's annual The Christmas Ballet never fails to please. Their customary presentation of The Classical Christmas, accompanied mostly to traditional Christmas songs, and The Cool Christmas, performed with comic ingenuity to contemporary and humorous holiday tunes, has become a winning combination guaranteed to warm and enliven...
October 31, 2022—San Francisco Ballet and Smuin Contemporary Ballet are among the over 60 international participants in the 2022 World Ballet Day, held this year on Wednesday, November 2nd. Now in its ninth year, this is the first year the event has not been held in October. World Ballet Day takes viewers behind-the-scenes of major ballet companies...