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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.
The school was founded in 1933 as part of the San Francisco Operatic and Ballet School when Gaetano Merola, the founder of the San Francisco Opera, perceived a need for an institution where dancers could be trained to perform in opera productions. [32]
In modern dance, Ruth St. Denis established her second school in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles in 1940 while Lester Horton created the Horton Dance Group in 1934, [4] also in Los Angeles. Ann Halprin founded the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop in 1950 and continues to live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area. [5]
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."
Bené Catheryn Moser Arnold (September 30, 1935 – January 25, 2024) was an American ballet dancer and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah. [1] [2] [3] She trained with the Ethel Meglin Dance Studio in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Ballet School, eventually becoming a soloist with the San Francisco Ballet Company.
In 1986, Chan was she was selected as one of the first international exchange students to study at San Francisco Ballet School, eventually joining American Ballet Theater in 1993.
Willam Farr Christensen (August 27, 1902 – October 14, 2001) [1] was an American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is known for bringing the complete version of the Russian ballet The Nutcracker to the United States, as well as staging the first American ...
Armand has been a jury member of the Prix de Lausanne on several occasions since 1998. He served as ballet master and also as a faculty member at Teatro alla Scala in Milan until 2010. It was at this point that he took over as the Principal of the San Francisco Ballet School Trainee program. [4]