Tag: san francisco ballet school

Get Ready for World Ballet School Day, Streaming July 7

Mark your calendars! This Tuesday, July 7, join pre-professional dancers across the globe in an inaugural live-stream event celebrating World Ballet School Day 2020. Made “by students for students,” the event aims to bring young generations of dancers together in an international recognition of the unifying power of ballet, dance and the art world at […]

What It's Like to Take Ballet Class All Over the World

From Copenhagen, Denmark, to San Francisco, CA, a ballet student’s day starts the same way: with class. Ballet class is a given at schools around the world, but there is a myriad of differences—from the studios to the technique—between them. We decided to pack up our dance bags, grab our passports, and take a trip […]

What I'm Obsessed with Right Now

When I crush on a dancer, I crush hard. I look at every Facebook photo I can find, I stalk Twitter and Instagram, and I stay up way too late YouTube-ing the dancer until my eyes start to close. Thank goodness for the internet, right? Here’s who I can’t stop talking about right now… Jeremy […]

Nureyev Couture

Hey there, lucky San Francisco dance fans: There’s a pretty amazing exhibition happening at the de Young Museum right now, “Rudolf Nureyev: A Life in Dance.” If features a display of 80 costumes that the dance legend and his co-stars wore—which is especially fitting because Nureyev was famously involved in creating the costumes for his […]

All Eyes On Chantel

“The first time I saw Chantel Aguirre dance was in a video,” recalls choreographer Travis Wall. “My first thought was that she had crazy lines. My next thought was that I wanted to meet her.” A few months later, Wall did meet Chantel, who was 18 at the time and working as an assistant at […]