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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.