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This is your last week to see “San Francisco Ballet at 90!” Celebrating its 90th season in 2023, San Francisco Ballet was founded as the San Francisco Opera Ballet in 1933. Did you know SF Ballet is the oldest professional ballet company in America? #SFBalletAt90 @sfballet This tweet was posted on February 13, 2024.

Special thank you to @SFBallet for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display pre-security in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPVGp2 #SFBalletAt90 #Ballet This tweet was posted on August 04, 2023.

This ocean blue tutu is layered with jeweled gold panels—a quintessential ballerina costume. Now retired, principal dancer Vanessa Zahorian wore the tutu in San Francisco Ballet’s premiere of 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘷𝘪𝘭. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on August 04, 2023.

𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘷𝘪𝘭 was Jorma Elo’s first commissioned work for @SFBallet. It is a ballet of extremes, with movements both classical and modern. The idea, Elo explains, “is to shake audiences out of complacency. Sometimes you want to break the dynamic of things.” #SFBalletAt90 This tweet was posted on August 04, 2023.

Choreographer Dwight Rhoden’s third work for San Francisco Ballet, "The Promised Land," premiered as part of the 2022 Celebration, the Company’s first in-person season since the COVID-19 pandemic. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on August 25, 2023.

Rhoden has a distinctive choreographic style. Within Rhoden’s piece there is a range of textures, going from fast and chaotic to pensive and serene, paralleling the uncertainty of contemporary world events. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on August 25, 2023.

Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPV8zu #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on August 25, 2023.

While "The Promised Land" does not have a fixed story, there is a “wandering narrative” throughout inspired by circumstances of the past few years: the COVID-19 pandemic and the struggle for racial equality. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on August 25, 2023.

Choreographer Dwight Rhoden’s third work for San Francisco Ballet, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥, premiered as part of the 2022 Celebration, the Company’s first in-person season since the COVID-19 pandemic. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on September 19, 2023.

Rhoden has a distinctive choreographic style. Within Rhoden’s piece there is a range of textures, going from fast and chaotic to pensive and serene, paralleling the uncertainty of contemporary world events. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on September 19, 2023.

Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPVGp2 #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on September 19, 2023.

While 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥 does not have a fixed story, there is a “wandering narrative” throughout inspired by circumstances of the past few years: the COVID-19 pandemic and the struggle for racial equality. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on September 19, 2023.

Many ballet dancers customize their pointe shoes depending on their needs. A dancer may alter their shoes once they receive them to make them fit perfectly. @SFBallet #Ballet #SFBalletAt90 #WorldBalletDay This tweet was posted on November 01, 2023.

A dancer might also prepare their shoes differently depending on the ballet they are performing. If a role is particularly demanding, a dancer may use a brand-new pair of shoes for each performance—or each act! @SFBallet #Ballet #SFBalletAt90 #WorldBalletDay This tweet was posted on November 01, 2023.

Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPVGp2 @SFBallet #Ballet #SFBalletAt90 #WorldBalletDay This tweet was posted on November 01, 2023.

Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPVGp2 #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on November 20, 2023.

Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPVGp2 #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on April 05, 2023.

The costumes, though cut and tailored in a Western style, possess an African influence in their colors and patterns. For the women’s dresses, Woodall chose a silk satin material, so the dancers would feel the movement of the fabric on their legs. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on April 05, 2023.

When designing for 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘢, a ballet that fuses European and African music and dance, Oakland-born costume and set designer Sandra Woodall applied the same cultural fusion in her vibrant designs for the ballet. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on April 05, 2023.

In her choreography, Lopez Ochoa sought to answer the question “How do you put cubism into movement?” She created cubist effects by arranging dancers into poses, so that the brain appears to see four heads and only two legs. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on April 18, 2023.

Lopez Ochoa’s ballet also encompasses flamenco dance and bullfighting. The four principal dancers wear bull horns; the bull symbolizes violence and power—aggressor and victim. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on April 18, 2023.

Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPVGp2 #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on April 18, 2023.

Colombian-Belgian Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (b. 1973) trained at the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp, Belgium. She danced for twelve years before becoming a choreographer in 2003. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on May 01, 2023.

Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPVGp2 #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on May 01, 2023.

For 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴, Liang chose to create a “spiritual, abstract world,” he says, “what you would call the in-between, where it’s neither this world nor the next world... I don’t want to limit audiences in what they see.” #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on June 13, 2023.

The concept coincides with his choice of music—Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov’s (1873–1943) Symphonic Dances (1940)—the composer’s final major composition, which he wrote while living in the United States. “#SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on June 13, 2023.

“Some people would call it dark, but I consider it spiritual,” says Liang, who was drawn to the composition’s intensity and the fantasy world Rachmaninov created through the music. This is what Liang sought to emulate in his choreography. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on June 13, 2023.

𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴, which premiered in 2012, was Edwaard Liang’s first major work for San Francisco Ballet. #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on June 13, 2023.

What’s going on at the museum? We’re preparing for our newest exhibition celebrating the San Francisco Ballet. Featuring objects from San Francisco Ballet, our preparators are making mounts for pointe shoes, essential footwear for a dancer. #behindthescenes #ballet @sfballet This tweet was posted on February 13, 2023.

Celebrating its 90th season in 2023, San Francisco Ballet is one of the most influential ballet companies in the world. Founded as the San Francisco Opera Ballet in 1933, the Company separated from the Opera in 1942 and was renamed San Francisco Ballet. @SFBallet #SFBalletAt90 This tweet was posted on February 27, 2023.

Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet (@SFBallet) for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPVGp2 #SFBalletAt90 This tweet was posted on February 27, 2023.

@SFBallet has performed choreographer Val Caniparoli’s “Lambarena” on an ongoing basis since its premiere in 1995. “Lambarena” takes its name from the town Lambaréné in Gabon where German physician Albert Schweitzer founded a hospital in 1913. #Ballet #SFBalletAt90 This tweet was posted on March 07, 2023.

French composers Pierre Akendengue and Hughes de Courson skillfully interwove African rhythms with extended passages from various Bach compositions. This captivating musical fusion provided inspiration for Caniparoli’s choreography. @SFBallet #Ballet #SFBalletAt90 This tweet was posted on March 07, 2023.

Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPVGp2 @SFBallet #Ballet #SFBalletAt90 This tweet was posted on March 07, 2023.

Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See “San Francisco Ballet at 90” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zSkalPVGp2 @SFBallet #Ballet #SFBalletAt90 #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 24, 2023.

While in a bookstore, choreographer Cathy Marston came across Charles Webb’s 1963 novel “The Graduate.” Realizing that the book was written in San Francisco, Marston immediately thought, “this is the piece that I need to make for San Francisco Ballet.” @SFBallet #SFBalletAt90 This tweet was posted on March 24, 2023.