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The San Francisco Ballet School Trainee Program, established in 2004, is a one- to two-year pre-professional program for advanced students who have been invited to join by San Francisco Ballet's artistic director and the School's associate director.
San Francisco Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet's official school, is America's oldest ballet school. The program includes classes in technique, pointe work, pas de deux, men's technique, contemporary dance, floor barre/conditioning, and character dance. Male and female students are placed in divisions according to age, experience, and ability.
The San Francisco Ballet Building, located in San Francisco, California, was designed by architect Beverly Willis and completed in 1984. The New York Times identified it as "the first building in the United States to be designed and constructed exclusively for the use of a major ballet company."
The San Francisco Ballet, founded as the San Francisco Opera Ballet in 1933, [1] predates both American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet. Barbara Crockett founded the Sacramento Ballet in 1954 [ 2 ] and hosted the first festival for the Pacific Western Region of Regional Dance America in 1966. [ 3 ]
San Francisco Ballet dances each year at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, and tours; this is the list of 2016 San Francisco Ballet repertory season with ballets and casts [1] beginning with the opening night gala, Thursday, January 21, 2016.
It was at this point that he took over as the Principal of the San Francisco Ballet School Trainee program. [ 4 ] From 2012 to 2017, Armand was associate director of the San Francisco Ballet School , when he succeeded Lola de Avila , [ 2 ] [ 5 ] becoming director in 2017.
Julie Diana Hench [1] (born 1976 or 1977 [2]) is an American ballet dancer, teacher, writer and arts administrator.She joined the San Francisco Ballet in 1993, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2000.
Vollmar returned to the San Francisco Ballet in 1956, and danced with the company until 1972, retiring after the Nutcracker season in 1972. [7] After retiring as a dancer, Vollmar served as a teacher and choreographer for several ballet companies. She was a teacher at the San Francisco Ballet School from 1985 to 2005. [4]