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Even as they returned to the cold of the city, audience members surely had visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads.

Unassuming and introverted in the studio, San Francisco Ballet soloist Jasmine Jimison is utterly natural onstage.

From promotions and new positions to farewells and award winners, here are the ballet world’s latest updates.

San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) streams Helgi Tomassons Romeo & Juliet from May 6-26, 2021 in the multi-capture, cinematic production by Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance from 2015, captured on stage at San Franciscos War Memorial Opera House. A signature work of the Company, Tomassons Romeo & Juliet has been performed worldwide, and was the last work SF Ballet toured prior to the pandemic, in the fall of 2019 at The Royal Danish Opera House in Copenhagen, Denmark, when it was...

Rachel Howard March 31, 2021Updated: March 31, 2021, 7:24 pm The San Francisco Ballet performs Balanchine’s “Emeralds.” Photo: Erik Tomasson Stagers are the dance world’s unsung keepers of beauty, credited only in the program’s small print, but responsible for the nuances of gesture, style and manner that constitute a ballet’s soul. Elyse Borne last staged George Balanchine’s “Emeralds” for the San Francisco Ballet in December 2019 and died later that month. One l...

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...