by Madeline Schrock | May 31, 2014 | Company Life
Pipit-Suksun in company class at Ballet San Jose (photo by Alejandro Gomez) Ballet San Jose principal Ommi Pipit-Suksun’s workout is carefully crafted—two parts mental preparation and one part each cardio and Pilates. She’s found the best times of day to sneak in...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Whether they’re making microchips or running ballet companies, they think innovatively in Silicon Valley. Consider Ballet San Jose, the primary dance organization in Northern California’s largest city. Founding artistic director Dennis Nahat has defied the...
by Jennifer Stahl | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Since the ousting of artistic director Dennis Nahat at the beginning of this year, Ballet San Jose has been working to detemine just what its reinvention would look like. Finally, this Saturday, the company’s season-opener gala will offer peek at what artistic...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Ballet San Jose is no more. In its place is the new Silicon Valley Ballet—a re-branding meant to show that the ballet company belongs to the whole region, not just the city of San Jose. The company was able to beat its budget shortfall with help from the larger...