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Cupcakes & Conversation with Sarah Van Patten, Principal, San Francisco Ballet What motivates you at 8am on a Monday morning? If Monday is the start of a new ballet then it’s always exciting to see what will be created. I love seeing what can evolve from nothing. I’m also always excited, not only by the [...]

San Francisco Ballet casting at Stern Grove Casting for the Sunday, July 29, 2pm performance at Stern Grove is as follows : SCOTCH SYMPHONY Choreographer: George Balanchine Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Conductor: Martin West Yuan Yuan Tan, Davit Karapteyan Nicole Ciapponi INTERMISSION SPINAE Choreographer: Myles Thatcher Composers: Phil Kline and Mary Ellen Childs Lacey Escabar, Lauren Parrott, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ANNOUNCES 2013 REPERTORY SEASON   HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE THE U.S. PREMIERE OF WHEELDON’S CINDERELLA, NEUMEIER’S NIJINSKY BY VISITING COMPANY HAMBURG BALLET, THE SF BALLET PREMIERE OF LIFAR’S SUITE EN BLANC, PLUS WORLD PREMIERES BY MCGREGOR, POSSOKHOV & RATMANSKY   SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday, April 10, 2012—San Francisco Ballet, the oldest professional ballet company in [...]

PERFORMANCE celebrates 40 years OF PROFESSIONAL DANCE TRAINING Alumni and students unite for anniversary show! Winnipeg, Manitoba (May 2, 2011) – Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Professional Division presents In Concert a year-end showcase featuring George Balanchine’s Scotch Symphony, ‘Hula’ from William Forsythe’s The Second Detail, Youske Mino’s Kase and the one-act story ballet Fairy [...]

Canada’s National Ballet School Announces Spring Showcase 2011 Repertoire                                  March 23, 2011…Canada’s National Ballet School is pleased to announce the repertoire for its annual Spring Showcase performance once again, this year featuring a wide array of works spanning the gamut from classical to contemporary, presenting works new to the NBS stage as well as some [...]

It’s 50 years since the Mariinsky Ballet were first presented to Londoners by Victor Hochhauser, and this summer they will return with a much anticipated line-up. The Mariinsky Ballet will pay tribute to Jerome Robbins & George Balanchine with Balanchine’s Scotch Symphony, Ballet Imperial & In the Night.  The company also pays homage to Fokine [...]

  Primrose Bakery supports Ballet News Cupcakes & Conversation with Kathryn Morgan, Soloist, New York City Ballet Kathryn and I share a passion for widening the reach of ballet; bringing ballet to people who, at the moment, just don’t see what ballet has to offer them or why it’s even relevant to their lives.  And [...]