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With the departure of five high-profile dancers, Artistic Director Tamara Rojo seeks to infuse the 90-year-old company with new talent.

When San Francisco Ballet begins this years series of 33 performances, hundreds of dancers, musicians, ushers and backstage workers spend day and night for a month to entertain an expected audience of close to 100,000

The immersive three piece set boasted an eclectic and dazzling bill that spanned genre, style and theme, keeping audience members — as well as the dancers — on their toes.

As her final performance following a 20-year tenure at the San Francisco Ballet, the production was a celebration of Van Patten’s venerable career, encompassing a medley of her most exemplary roles.

Programs 5 and 6 include a surrealist tribute to Magritte, music by Hans Zimmer, and 'Solid Gold'-summoning costumes

San Francisco Ballet is back in the Opera House, looking strong, with two very different yet captivating programs of premieres and repertory works by choreographers Helgi Tomasson, Cathy Marston, William Forsythe, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins.

San Francisco Ballet fairly leaps for joy in the opening program of its 2022 season live onstage at the War Memorial Opera House. Program 1 includes George Balanchine's eternally effervescent 'Symphony in C' and the world premiere of 'Mrs. Robinson' by Cathy Marston, based on the seminal novel 'The Graduate.' Performances continue thru 2/12/22.

Rachel Howard March 4, 2021Updated: March 14, 2021, 12:57 pm Betty Fine (Sarah Van Patten) is a vaudeville chorus girl in “Wooden Dimes.” Photo: Lindsay Gauthier, San Francisco Ballet If a choreographer wants to make the most of this pandemic era, Sarah Van Patten is the woman to put on the screen. Van Patten, who joined the San Francisco Ballet in 2002, is the finest actress-dancer in the company, so it is good to have a beautifully directed record of her theatrical genius in ...

San Francisco Ballets online opening night could have been cause for concern. Dance does not record well; how diminished a thing is this going to be? Would they be ready? Would the dancers be out of shape? Would their technique have gone ragged? Had they have lost stage presence? Show signs of strain? Would long-time favorites dancers still be here? Would they be wearing masks of forced gaiety? And also, will they answer the questions of diversity and inclusion? Yes they were ready. Yes, we ha...

Rachel Howard January 15, 2021Updated: January 15, 2021, 6:21 pm The San Francisco Ballet Orchestra under the direction of Music Director Martin West. Photo: San Francisco Ballet Patrons prepared not by fastening their tuxedo cuff links but by downloading an app; the ribs bourguignon were served not piping hot in the War Memorial Opera House halls but reheated in the microwave after home delivery. Yet there we were on Thursday, Jan. 14, for the opening gala of San Francisco Ballet�...