San Francisco Ballet

[Interview] Meet Nikisha Fogo, San Francisco Ballet’s new Principal Dancer

10 June 2020 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Swedish ballerina Nikisha Fogo will soon take up a new position in a new company when she becomes a principal dancer at San Francisco Ballet. After seven years with the Vienna State Ballet, passing through the ranks from the corps de ballet to first soloist, director Manuel Legris’ decision to leave the company after ten years (he will take over at La Scala in December 2020) was a stimulus for her to move on.

When the Opera House in Vienna cancelled its performances from the 11 March, Fogo stayed in Vienna, not knowing whether it would be possible to finish the season, not being able to go home to Sweden, or on to San Francisco to find an apartment and settle in

English National Ballet presents Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella in-the-round

7 March 2019 by gramilano Leave a Comment

English National Ballet will perform a new in-the-round version of Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella at the Royal Albert Hall from 6-16 June 2019. Working from the dark Brothers Grimm version of the story, Wheeldon created Cinderella for Dutch National Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. Now he and his creative team reunite for the in-the-round re-staging. The […]

New Wayne McGregor premiere in Munich: Bavarian State Ballet presents Sunyata, with Kairos and Borderlands

2 June 2018 by gramilano Leave a Comment

The commitment of this company is what impresses, a sense of collaboration and dedication. The Bavarian State Ballet’s triple bill, Portrait of Wayne McGregor, was an ideal showcase for their talents. The three half-hour works featured two recent pieces – Kairos created for the Zurich Ballet in 2014 and Borderlands for San Francisco Ballet in […]

Emerging young talent at La Scala excel in Petit, Béjart and Preljocaj

6 May 2018 by gramilano Leave a Comment

The Ballet School of La Scala’s Academy have just finished a short run of their “end of year” show. For many, it will be their last appearance as students. An effective défilé by the school (and La Scala Ballet Company) director Frédéric Olivieri set to the march from Tannhäuser was followed by Roland Petit’s Gymnopédie. […]

World Ballet Day 2017: 5 October Live with Australian, Bolshoi, Royal, Canadian and San Francisco Ballet Companies

8 August 2017 by gramilano 2 Comments

Five of the world’s leading ballet companies will come together for World Ballet Day on Thursday 5 October to broadcast 20 hours of live, behind-the-scenes footage via Facebook Live, following a successful partnership with Facebook in 2016. The Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada and San Francisco Ballet will […]

English National Ballet’s new Lead Principal: San Francisco’s Aaron Robison

5 June 2017 by gramilano 1 Comment

English National Ballet will welcome Aaron Robison as Lead Principal. Robison is currently a Principal with San Francisco Ballet. He will join the ENB next spring ahead of the performances of Romeo & Juliet at the Royal Festival Hall in August. After dancing abroad for the last seven years, I am very excited to be coming […]

English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer competition 2017

23 January 2017 by gramilano Leave a Comment

English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer competition is already in it’s eighth edition. This year it will be held at Sadler’s Wells on Thursday 25 May. Unusually, the English National Ballet chooses, through this annual competition, to recognises the excellence of its artists, who are selected by their peers. Six of the company’s most promising dancers […]

World Ballet Day 2015 with one day of live streaming from 5 companies

8 September 2015 by gramilano Leave a Comment

1 October 2015 is the date for this year’s World Ballet Day live stream. Following last year’s unprecedented collaboration for the first World Ballet Day LIVE, five of the world’s leading ballet companies will once again stream 23 hours of live, behind-the-scenes footage on Thursday, 1 October. The Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet, The […]

En Avant’s next ballet projects include a special encounter with Marcelo Gomes

13 March 2015 by gramilano Leave a Comment

The En Avant Foundation will present specialised coaching master classes for advanced pre-professional and professional dancers in San Francisco and in New York in April 2015. The Foundation’s inaugural event last June in New York was a resounding success and En Avant’s Artistic Director Cynthia Harvey and her team are continuing to aim high. Isabelle […]

An interview with Vito Mazzeo who’s bringing his ballet ‘friends’ to Italy

8 October 2014 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Dutch National Ballet principal dancer Vito Mazzeo will bring a group of his colleagues from Amsterdam to Teatro Salieri in Legnago for a ‘Dutch Gala’ on 22 November. Mazzeo, who was formerly a principal with the San Francisco Ballet, will be joined by Igone de Jongh, Emilie Gallerani Tassinari, Wenting Guan, Victoria Ananyan, Cristiano Principato […]