by Haley Hilton For Dance Teacher | Oct 18, 2020 | News
Evelyn Cisneros-Legate is bringing her hard-earned expertise to Ballet West. The former San Francisco Ballet star is taking over all four campuses of The Frederick Quinney Lawson Ballet West Academy as the school’s new director. Cisneros-Legate, whose mother put...
by Claudia Bauer | Oct 6, 2020 | Instagram, Profiles
Like all stellar corps dancers, San Francisco Ballet’s Alexander Reneff-Olson is great at blending in. Despite an imposing 6′ stature, he has a quiet, steady presence that makes him one of the crowd in the Sleeping Beauty polonaise, and just another wave...
by Julia Guiheen | Jun 24, 2020 | Viral Videos
Yuan Yuan Tan and José Martínez both left their respective homes in China and Spain as teens to join top ballet companies. Tan was quickly made a principal at San Francisco Ballet and Martínez rose to étoile at the Paris Opéra Ballet, both becoming sought-after...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jun 23, 2020 | News, Profiles
Earlier this week, San Francisco Ballet released a statement that Mikhailovsky Ballet first soloist Julian MacKay will be joining the company as a principal dancer for its 2021 season. This news follows SFB’s announcement from April noting several company...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 22, 2020 | Career, News
Promotions season is officially underway. Though ballet companies worldwide are shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, they’re still looking toward the future, and updating their rosters accordingly. Last night, San Francisco Ballet joined the ranks of...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 9, 2020 | News, The Latest
This hasn’t been an easy week for San Francisco Ballet: Last weekend the city’s mayor ordered that the War Memorial Performing Arts Center cancel all performances through March 20 to prevent the spread of COVID-19, thus halting SFB’s run of A...
by Toba Singer | Feb 13, 2020 | Career, News, Profiles
Six-time Tony Award-winning lighting designer Natasha Katz has lit such Broadway musical hits as Frozen, Hello Dolly! and A Chorus Line. She is also one of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s biggest collaborators, designing the lighting for works such as...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jan 20, 2020 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Opens With Two All-Balanchine Programs After a quick post-Nutcracker break, New York City Ballet is back. The company’s winter...