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Helgi Tomasson's 2004 Nutcracker

The largest production SF Ballet has undertaken >>

About Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Enter a magical, moonlit world. >>

About Tomasson's Swan Lake

Ballet at it's most beautiful >>

About Helgi Tomasson's 7 for Eight

Discover how Tomasson's 7 for Eight came to life. >>

About Myles Thatcher's COLORFORMS

Kinetic movement in dance, visual art, and film >>

About William Forsythe's Blake Works I

"It lives and breathes. . . . It's always evolving" >>

About Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella

There may be no fairy godmother, but you won't miss her a bit in Wheeldon's Cinderella. >>

About Robbins' In The Night

Love and devotion >>

About Helgi Tomasson's Romeo & Juliet

A story that transcends time, race, class, and gender >>

About Tomasson's The Fifth Season

Melodic Minimalism >>

About Tomasson's Harmony

A buoyant celebration of dance and dancers >>

About Possokhov's Magrittomania

Inventive. Imaginative. Inspiring. >>

About Wheeldon's Finale Finale

“SF Ballet really is a choreographers’ company.” >>

About Rhoden's The Promised Land

Embodying the resiliency of the human spirit >>

About Tomasson's Prism

Clarity, classicism, and precision: Tomasson’s dance heritage >>

About Bournonville's La Sylphide

The most beautiful way of living life >>

About Alexei Ratmansky's The Seasons

Homage meets contemporary creative energy in this SF Ballet premiere >>

About Don Quixote

A romantic comedy done ballet style >>

About Balanchine's Symphony in C

Complex. Powerful. Breathtaking. >>

About Tomasson's Trio

Death, love, and remembrance >>

Reconsidering Mrs. Robinson

Cathy Marston's world premiere reconsiders the character of Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate >>

About Tomasson's Caprice

"Be more daring. Be joyous." >>

About Balanchine's Serenade

Balanchine's first ballet created in the US >>

About Snowblind

Bittersweet. Beautiful. Human. >>

About David Dawson's Anima Animus

"Don't do what you know. Do something beyond. Unbound." >>

About George Balanchine's Jewels

A ballet of emotions and contrasts >>

About Ratmansky's Symphony #9

An homage to Shostakovich, Russia, and hope >>

About Rowe's Wooden Dimes

Performing isn’t work. It’s a lifestyle. It’s a calling. >>

About Possokhov’s Swimmer

An Odyssey through American Culture, Memory, and Beauty >>

About Let's Begin at the End

Love, connection, and discord >>

About Mark Morris' Sandpaper Ballet

Morris, musicality, and unmitigated joy >>

About Benjamin Millepied's Appassionata

Elegant precision becomes passionate abandon over one tempestuous evening in Appassionata. >>

About Yuri Possokhov's Classical Symphony

A tribute to ballet training and an important ballet teacher >>

About Trey McIntyre's The Big Hunger

"We all came to be in this place, at this moment, for a reason." >>

About Stanton Welch's Bespoke

Discover a ballet all about loving ballet >>

About Harald Lander's Etudes

Etudes takes dancers’ prosaic daily ritual—ballet class—and transforms it for the stage. >>

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