by Sponsored by San Francisco Ballet | Dec 15, 2022 | From Our Sponsors, Training
Dancing with a world-renowned company like the San Francisco Ballet is a dream for many students, and enrolling at the affiliated San Francisco Ballet School is a major step towards achieving this goal—especially considering that more than 70 percent of the current...
by Kyra Laubacher | Sep 16, 2022 | News, The Latest
Get ready for a flux of career news as companies kick off their 2022–23 seasons. From promotions and new positions to farewells and award winners, here are the ballet world’s latest updates. Virginia Johnson to Retire, Robert Garland to Succeed as DTH Artistic...
by Katie Slattery | Sep 24, 2020 | Technique, Training, Your Training
Audition for any school or company, and they’ll likely ask for a photo in arabesque. The position not only reveals a great deal about a dancer’s ability, but it is also a fundamental building block for more advanced movements, like penché or arabesque...
by Claudia Bauer | Oct 7, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
Jasmine Jimison is just 17, but she’s already experiencing a fairy-tale ballet career: In her first year as a San Francisco Ballet apprentice, Jimison made sparkling main- stage debuts as Cupid in Don Quixote, the Ballerina Doll in The Nutcracker and, in The...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 17, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. Justin Peck Creates a World Premiere for Houston Ballet Houston Ballet on Instagram: “Get an inside look at @Justin_Peck creating ‘Reflections’ on our dancers...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Jun 28, 2018 | Summer Study
At my first summer intensive away from home, my roommate and I deliberated good-naturedly over bunkbeds and decorations. But the next summer, I walked into a triple dorm room and was met with the least desirable bed choice and nearly every inch of wall space plastered...
by Kathleen McGuire | Mar 8, 2018 | Audition Advice, Career
Julia Erickson grew up training at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Once she’d spent some time in the professional division, she started feeling like a member of the company. She performed with PNB extensively, even touring with them to London, Scotland,...
by Amy Brandt | Jun 15, 2017 | Technique
Penché. So simple, yet so tough. Here, San Francisco Ballet School faculty member Tina LeBlanc offers her tips for a beautifully supported penché. Think three-dimensionally: “A penché is not just front and back, or down and up,” says Tina LeBlanc....
