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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.
He trained at La Compañia Juvenil de Barcelona and at the Royal Ballet School. In 2004 he won the Young British Dancer of the Year Award. A Gold Medal at The Seoul International Dance Competition in South Korea. A Finalists Cash prize Prix de Lausanne. In 2012 amongst The Top 100 dancers of the year in Dance Europe.
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, 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 ]
Patrick Armand – associate director of San Francisco Ballet School and director of San Francisco Ballet School's Trainee Program, Prix de Lausanne prizewinner (1980) Ted Brandsen – artistic director and resident choreographer, Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam Bruce Sansom – director of the Central School of Ballet, London, England 2014
He continues to choreograph for the Belasco Children's Theater, and teaches ongoing master classes for Pacific Ballet Academy, the San Francisco Dance Center, and other companies throughout the U.S. Lawrence Pech has been Ballet Master for the San Francisco Opera [ 2 ] for the past several years.
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.
The San Francisco School of Circus Arts was founded in 1984, as a project of the Pickle Family Circus, which in turn was founded ten years earlier. The Circus Center offers training for adults and children in recreational, amateur and professional circus arts. These conservatories focus individually on Clowning, Aerial Arts, and Contortion.