San Francisco Ballet’s 75th Anniversary Celebration Tour

Filed Under Arts, Gay Entertainment | September 10th, 2008 

NEW YORK, NY (PRNewswire) — In fall 2008, as part of its 75th Anniversary Celebration, San Francisco Ballet — America’s oldest professional ballet company — will embark on a four-city national tour with 30 performances total.

Yuan Yuan Tan and Tiit Helimets in Tomasson's The Fifth Season (PRNewsFoto/San Francisco Ballet (c) Erik Tomasson)

Yuan Yuan Tan and Tiit Helimets in Tomasson’s The Fifth Season (PRNewsFoto/San Francisco Ballet (c) Erik Tomasson)

The Company’s American Tour includes engagements at Chicago’s Harris Theater for Music and Dance (September 16-21), Southern California’s Orange County Performing Arts Center (November 11-16), and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. (November 25-30). In addition, San Francisco Ballet will perform at New York City Center from October 10-18.

At New York City Center, the Company will present three mixed-repertory programs over nine performances, including seven New York premieres. Program A features George Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15 and the New York premieres of Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour and Yuri Possokhov’s Fusion. Program B features the New York premieres of Helgi Tomasson’s The Fifth Season and Mark Morris’ Joyride, as well as Tomasson’s Concerto Grosso and Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments. Program C includes the New York premieres of Tomasson’s On a Theme of Paganini, Val Caniparoli’s Ibsen’s House, and Jorma Elo’s Double Evil.

For more information and to purchase tickets for San Francisco Ballet’s New York engagement, visit nycitycenter.org or call 212.581.1212. Tickets are also on sale at the New York City Center Box Office (131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, Monday-Saturday, 12-8pm).

About the San Francisco Ballet:

As America’s oldest professional ballet company and one of the three largest ballet companies in the United States, San Francisco Ballet has enjoyed a long and rich tradition of artistic “firsts” since its founding in 1933. It performed the first American productions of Swan Lake and Nutcracker, as well as the first production of Coppelia choreographed by an American choreographer. Guided in its early years by American dance pioneers and brothers Lew, Willam, and Harold Christensen, San Francisco Ballet currently presents more than 100 performances a year locally, nationally, and abroad.

Under the direction of Helgi Tomasson for more than two decades, the Company has achieved an international reputation as one of the preeminent ballet companies in the world. In 2005, San Francisco Ballet won the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award, its first, in the category of “Outstanding Achievement in Dance,” for its 2004 London tour. In 2006, San Francisco Ballet was the first non-European company elected “Company of the Year” in Dance Europe magazine’s annual readers’ poll. This year, San Francisco Ballet celebrates its 75th anniversary.

For more information on the Company’s American Tour, visit sfballet.org.

Source: San Francisco Ballet

Related Links:
- Chicago’s Harris Theater for Music and Dance
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Orange County Performing Arts Center
- New York City Center