San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Sigrun Corrigan of Los Altos Hills, a patron of the Bay Area arts scene who served as president of Ballet San Jose, died June 26 after a two-year battle with breast cancer. She was 70. Mrs. Corrigan was the wife of one of Silicon Valley's leading figures in...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Vivid storytelling is one of Ballet San Jose's specialties, and what a fabulous tale it spins in "The Firebird," Dennis Nahat's retelling of the Ballet Russe classic, originally choreographed by Michel Fokine in 1910. Nahat's 2005 version, which opened at the...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ballet San Jose of Silicon Valley will feature three talented Chinese dancers in a May through June goodwill tour that will perform in eight cities; Shanghai, Hongzhou, Dongguan, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Beijing, Shenyang, and Ningbo. The three dancers, (Bo Hao of Beijing, Chen Shuai of Shandong and Zhang Jing of Shanghai) are all returning home to China...
A Luxury Travel Blog (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
Ballet San Jose has announced a five-week, eight-city tour to China scheduled for May and June 2008. The tour, named Goodwill Tour From Silicon Valley, will include performances at the Grand Theatre in Shanghai and the Poly Theatre in Beijing. Programs will include fully staged productions of The Firebird and Carmina Burana, plus additional ballets by [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
Turns out that during recent seasons of dancing mostly silly spectacles, a crop of credible classical dancers at Ballet San Jose must have been yearning to show us their true chops. On Friday at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, the 44-member...
Sal Pizarro's Blog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
It was party-hopping time Saturday night and I bounced between Ballet San Jose’s gala in East Palo Alto and Santa Clara University's Golden Circle Theater Party in San Jose. Ballet San Jose decided to up the ante this year by holding a $1,000 a head party at the swanky Four Seasons Hotel instead of the more [...]
CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's s (Free subscription) | 12/23/2007
The Royal Danish Ballet bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Award on Ballet San Jose School Director Lisa la Cour.
MercuryNewsPhoto.com (Free subscription) | 12/15/2007
San Jose Mercury News’ Sue Hutchison talks about Ballet San Jose’s Tiffany Glenn's return to the stage after breast cancer. [VIDEO]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
There's a pleasantly warm, homey feeling almost as soon as you walk into the San Jose Performing Arts Center for Ballet San Jose's "Nutcracker." It's the kind of show at which a complete stranger might lean over the seat back and chat as if you'd been friends...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/16/2007
You have to wonder if, when Carl Orff conceived "Carmina Burana" as total theatrical spectacle, he ever could have imagined the scene at Ballet San Jose on Thursday: Ramon Moreno in a white bathing cap and buttocks-baring dance belt, stretching into...
