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Harris Theater Turns 5

Harris Theater for Music and Dance celebrated the opening night of their fifth anniversary season to great fanfare last week, hosting a gala on Thursday night in Millennium Park to kick off their week-long engagement with the San Francisco Ballet while raising nearly $1.4 million to benefit the theater . We absolutely love the Harris Theater. It’s a beautiful venue in a great location, and the 2008/2009...

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New York City Center Receives Inaugural Lasky Award

The Jerome Robbins Foundation will present New York City Center with the very first Floria V. Lasky Award. The Sept. 26 ceremony will also feature the presentation of the Jerome Robbins Award to San Francisco Ballet and Twyla Tharp.

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Ligeti, Poulenc and Prokofiev at the Symphony

My favorite box-office person in the Civic Center, Meredith Clark (above), has set up shop in the lobby of Davies Symphony Hall and it was a joy as usual to see her on Sunday afternoon. It's too bad the San Francisco Ballet, where she worked for 17 years, has decided that the internet should be the only way people get tickets rather than providing a fully staffed box office. (Note to Ballet: It doesn't...

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San Francisco Ballet’s 75th Anniversary Celebration Tour

NEW YORK, NY (PRNewswire) — In fall 2008, as part of its 75th Anniversary Celebration, San Francisco Ballet — America’s oldest professional ballet company — will embark on a four-city national tour with 30 performances total. Yuan Yuan Tan and Tiit Helimets in Tomasson’s The Fifth Season (PRNewsFoto/San Francisco Ballet (c) Erik Tomasson) The Company’s American [...]

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Zhukov's debut impresses with mature ensemble

If you'd like reassurance that worthy talent is on occasion rewarded with generous patronage, consider Yuri Zhukov. For the last five years, the former Kirov and San Francisco Ballet dancer's choreographic efforts have premiered mostly at the student...

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Arts, Briefly: Recipients Announced for Robbins Award

The two recipients of this year’s Jerome Robbins Award for excellence in dance, prizes that are worth $100,000 each, will be the choreographer Twyla Tharp and the San Francisco Ballet.

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San Francisco Ballet's New Works Festival - some long delayed thoughts

(San Francisco Ballet in the 21st century, advertised on sleek MUNI buses.) I recently found these thoughts about San Francisco Ballet's New Works Festival in my drafts folder - from all the way back in May! I brushed it up and decided to finally post it, for even though the New Works Festival has long gone, many of the ballets will be touring the country when SF Ballet visits Chicago, New York, Washington...

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San Francisco Ballet Announces Programming for Fall 2008 American Tour With Engagements in Chicago, New York, Costa Mesa, CA, and Washington, D.C.

San Francisco Ballet -- America's Oldest Professional Ballet Company -- Embarks on a Four-city American Tour as Part of Its Year-long 75th Anniversary Celebration SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In fall 2008, as part of its 75th Anniversary Celebration, San Francisco Ballet - America's oldest professional ballet company - will embark on a four-city national tour with 30 performances...

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Tan Yuanyuan accepts guest principal dancer position at Hong Kong Ballet

San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Tan Yuanyuan announced Monday she has accepted a guest position in Hong Kong, saying she wants to give back to her country.

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SF Ballet Showcase gives kids one last lift

An astonishing thing happens every year during the class demonstrations that begin the San Francisco Ballet School Student Showcase. As the tentative tendus of tottering 8-year-olds cede the stage to testing passés from the bigger girls and double pirouettes...

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Diablo Ballet closer jazzy but not snazzy

Friday night at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts, I ended up sitting next to a mother and her 10-year-old girl. The little girl liked ballet, and the mother regularly bought tickets for Diablo Ballet at her daughter's urging. San Francisco Ballet...

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Evidence Of A Rocky Ballet Future

"The company didn't envision its ambitious New Works Festival, the centerpiece of the San Francisco Ballet's 75th-anniversary season, as a microcosm of what's wrong with the ballet world. But the fact that this large outlay of money, time and talent -- unprecedented in its scope -- produced more mediocrity than revelation points to a big problem for ballet. Self-renewal is not its strong suit."...

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Tale Of The Toe

Toe shoes are a major budget expense for ballet companies. The San Francisco Ballet provides 120 pairs of pointe shoes for each of its 40 female dancers. The American Ballet Theatre in New York City sets aside $350,000 for pointe shoes per season, about $7,500 per ballerina....

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'Swan Lake' on deck for S.F. Ballet

San Francisco Ballet announces its 76th season today, a lineup including a new "Swan Lake," works by Mark Morris and a reprise of six dances featured in this year's New Works Festival.

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Marissa Mayer hits the town with hunky boytoy and Orkut [Nerdspotting]

Google VP Marissa Mayer attended the San Francisco Ballet's New Work's Festival on Friday and she brought along all her favorite friends. These included Mayer's manfriend, real-estate fund manager... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]