What would a Justin Peck premiere be without a gorgeous preview video to celebrate it? The New York City Ballet soloist’s first work for San Francisco Ballet, In the Countenance of Kings, is set to debut on April 7. #TeamBallet is excited about this one, and for good reason: It features a score by Sufjan […]
Isabella DeVivo is taking the ballet world by storm: During her first year as a San Francisco Ballet corps member, she danced featured roles in Alexei Ratmansky’s From Foreign Lands and Liam Scarlett’s Hummingbird. Before joining SFB in 2013, she studied dance at the School of American Ballet in NYC and was a San Francisco […]
It’s Mother’s Day weekend—which means it’s a good time to remember that every mom is, basically, a superhero. Being a mom requires incredible strength and patience and all kinds of other superpowers. But ballerina moms? Ballerina moms are simultaneously superheroes and fairy princesses. They somehow balance the demands of momdom with a physically strenuous job—one […]
Happy Friday, ladies and gents! Does it feel like this has been an especially long week? It does, right? I have this theory that the colder it is, the slower time passes. Anyway, here’s a little something to reward you for making it through: a #FouetteFriday video! Our friends over at TenduTV recently posted this […]
Just as I was talking about all the awesome choreographers and filmmakers out there, teaming up to create dance films, the internet went and proved me right. Dancer, photographer and filmmaker Quinn Wharton’s latest project—an experimental short called RUN—is another cool addition to the genre. Frances Chung and Dores André in RUN Not only is […]
WanTing Zhao in Helgi Tomasson’s Nutcracker (photo by Erik Tomasson, courtesy San Francisco Ballet) Born in China, WanTing Zhao has been a rising talent at San Francisco Ballet since joining the corps in 2011. Thanks to her jaw-dropping lines and expressive upper body, she hasn’t been relegated to the back row: She’s performed featured roles […]
Brief soapbox moment: Does anyone else feel like the Christmas season started the minute Halloween was over? I mean, Starbucks immediately brought out their cranberry-colored cups and ginger-bread-y goodness. The drug stores swept their candy aside and replaced it with Santa hats, Christmas lights and red-and-green wrapping paper. And the holiday commercials descended with gusto. Don’t […]
We told you it was coming—and now it’s finally arrived! Today is the first-ever World Ballet Day, which means it’s time to watch dancers from five of the world’s greatest companies—the Australian Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, and San Francisco Ballet—taking class and rehearsing. The up-close-and-personal experience is […]