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...
CounterPulse performance space describes itself as "space and resources for emerging artists and cultural innovator" for creating the socially relevant. CounterPulse lives up to its aspirations with the upcoming performance of Li Chiao-Ping's multidisciplinary dance theater Here Lies the Truth. A collaboration with visual artist Douglas Rosenberg,...
September 13, 2022—Smuin Contemporary Ballet opens their 29th season with a bang on Friday, September 16th with the 2022/2023 edition of Dance Series 1. Known for their vitality and skill, the Smuin dancers will perform three energizing works: Take Five by Rex Wheeler, set to music by jazz legend Dave Brubeck; Requiem for a Rose by...
July 9, 2022—At the opening of the Stanford Live summer performance season last night, Executive Director of San Francisco Ballet Danielle St. Germain outlined key highlights of the Company's upcoming 90th anniversary season and expressed her appreciation for the partnership with Stanford Live.