San Francisco Ballet, the oldest professional ballet company in America, has emerged as a world-class arts organization since it was founded as the San Francisco Opera Ballet in 1933. Initially, its primary purpose was to train dancers to appear in lavish, full-length opera productions.
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Performance occur at War Memorial Opera House - https://www.sfstation.com/war-memorial-opera-house-b11765
Good Read - How a new San Francisco Ballet director turned an opera house into a house party - https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/24/san-francisco-ballet-tamara-rojo/
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The mission of San Francisco Ballet is to share our joy of dance with the widest possible audience in our community and around the globe and to provide the highest caliber of dance training in our School.
We seek to enhance our position as one of the world's finest dance companies through our vitality, innovation, and diversity, and through our uncompromising commitment to artistic excellence based in the classical ballet tradition.
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