Corps de Ballet Dancer SunMin Lee describes her travel home and subsequent quarantine in Korea at the start of the pandemic. She shares the exhilarating experience of feeling fully prepared and confident for a performance and how special it was to dance in the Midsummer’s Night Dream performance that was filmed after the closing of the War Memorial Opera House last spring.
SF Ballet’s 2020 Scholar-in-Residence Carrie Gaiser Casey, PhD gives insight into Alexei Ratmansky’s Symphony #9. In conversation with SF Ballet Principal Dancer Dores André and Soloist Jahna Frantziskonis.
The meteoric rise of Betty Fine—from chorus girl to vaudeville star—puts her marriage to office worker Robert Fine to the test in Danielle Rowe’s world premiere dance film Wooden Dimes. This roaring '20s, art deco-inspired film is also a love letter to a life in the theater and the backstage worl...
Listen to Shinji Eshima, Associate Principal Contrabass of San Francisco Ballet Orchestra on composing the music for Yuri Possokhov's Swimmer. “These are all the things that Yuri loves about America,” says Eshima, whose score begins with a trumpet solo that blossoms into a brass chorale, alluding...