List of San Francisco Ballet 2016 repertory

San Francisco Ballet dances each year at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, and tours; this is the list of 2016 San Francisco Ballet repertory season with ballets and casts beginning with the opening night gala, Thursday, January 21, 2016. The Nutcracker is danced the year before.

Gala
Thursday, January 21, 2016

The program for the gala

After intermission, SF Ballet Orchestra performed "Infernal Dance" from The Firebird, in Celebration of San Francisco Ballet Orchestra’s 40th Anniversary. (No dancers were on stage during this.)
 * "Waltz of the Hours" from Coppélia
 * World Premiere "Adagio" from the ballet based on Carmen, by Yuri Possokhov
 * Bartok Divertimento
 * Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux
 * Pas de deux from Carousel (A Dance)
 * Pas de deux from Don Quixote, Act III
 * San Francisco Ballet Premiere Gentle Memories
 * Rubies pas de deux
 * Solo, by Hans van Manen
 * Pas de deux from Swan Lake, Act III
 * North American Premiere Pas de deux from Pas/Parts by William Forsythe
 * Theme and Variations finale

Program one, Jan 24 - Feb 5 Mixed program

 * 7 for 8 by Helgi Tomasson
 * Magrittomania by Yuri Possokhov
 * Pas/Parts 2016 by William Forsythe

Program two, Jan 27 - Feb 6 Mixed program

 * Rubies
 * Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes by Mark Morris
 * Fearful Symmetries (World Premiere) by Liam Scarlett

Program three, Feb 19 - Feb 28 Full-Length

 * Swan Lake

Program four, Mar 8 - Mar 13 Full-Length

 * Coppélia

Program five, Mar 16 - Mar 22 Mixed program

 * Dances at a Gathering
 * Swimmer, by Yuri Possokhov

Program six, Apr 5 - Apr 16 Mixed program

 * Prism by Helgi Tomasson
 * Seven Sonatas by Alexei Ratmansky
 * Rush© by Christopher Wheeldon

Program seven, Apr 7 - Apr 17 Mixed Program

 * Continuum© by Christopher Wheeldon
 * In the Countenance of Kings by Justin Peck
 * Theme and Variations

Program eight, Apr 30 - May 8 Full length

 * Onegin

2016 Company Roster
The company of the San Francisco Ballet:

Changes from 2015 season

 * Soloist Dana Genshaft retired from dancing and joined the faculty of the San Francisco Ballet School.
 * Soloist Clara Blanco left to be both a ballet teacher and head of the classical dance department at Escuela Profesional de Danza de Castilla y León, in Valladolid, Spain.
 * Corps member Carolyn Lippert joined the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre in December 2015.
 * Corps member Raymond Tilton joined Diablo Ballet in Walnut Creek, California.
 * Corps member Kristina Lind joined the Dutch National Ballet
 * Corps members Thomas Bieszka, Megan Amanda Ehrlich, Lacey Escabar, Emily Kadow, Shannon Marie Rugani, and Benjamin Stewart were removed from the roster for the 2016 season.
 * Principals Pascal Molat and Joan Boada announced they would be retiring at the end of the 2016 season.
 * Principal Gennadi Nedvigin announced he will retire from dancing in May 2016 to become the artistic director of the Atlanta Ballet.

Promotions and Additions

 * San Francisco Ballet announced five promotions, four new Company members, and six apprentices for the 2016 Repertory Season:
 * Soloist Dores André has been promoted to principal dancer.
 * Lauren Strongin from Houston Ballet joined as a soloist.
 * Added to the corps de ballet were former SF Ballet Apprentices Samantha Bristow, Benjamin Freemantle, John-Paul Simoens, and Maggie Weirich, as well as Jahna Frantziskonis from Pacific Northwest Ballet, Alessandra Vassallo from Teatro alla Scala, and Kamryn Baldwin from the San Francisco Ballet School.
 * Grace Choi, Blake Kessler, Anastasia Kubanda, Haruo Niyama, Chisako Oga, and Francisco Sebastião of the San Francisco Ballet School were promoted to the rank of apprentice.
 * However, Alessandra Vassallo did not appear on the roster on www.sfballet.org during the 2016.

Principal character dancers

 * Ricardo Bustamante
 * Val Caniparoli


 * Rubén Martín Cintas


 * Anita Paciotti

Soloists

 * Sasha De Sola
 * Daniel Deivison-Oliveira
 * Carlo Di Lanno
 * Koto Ishihara
 * James Sofranko
 * Jennifer Stahl
 * Lauren Strongin
 * Anthony Vincent
 * Hansuke Yamamoto

Corps de Ballet

 * Gaetano Amico III
 * Kamryn Baldwin
 * Sean Bennett
 * Kimberly Braylock-Olivier
 * Samantha Bristow
 * Kristine Butler
 * Max Cauthorn
 * Thamires Chuvas
 * Diego Cruz
 * Isabella DeVivo
 * Jahna Frantziskonis
 * Benjamin Freemantle
 * Jordan Hammond
 * Jillian Harvey


 * Esteban Hernandez
 * Ellen Rose Hummel
 * Norika Matsuyama
 * Lee Alex Meyer-Lorey
 * Steven Morse
 * Francisco Mungamba
 * Sean Orza
 * Lauren Parrott
 * Elizabeth Powell
 * Alexander Reneff-Olson
 * Aaron Renteria
 * Rebecca Rhodes
 * Julia Rowe
 * Emma Rubinowitz


 * Skyla Schreter
 * Grace Shibley
 * Henry Sidford
 * Miranda Silveira
 * John-Paul Simoens
 * Myles Thatcher
 * Mingxuan Wang
 * Wei Wang
 * Lonnie Weeks
 * Maggie Weirich
 * Ami Yuki
 * WanTing Zhao

Apprentices

 * Grace Choi
 * Blake Kessler
 * Anastasia Kubanda
 * Chisako Oga
 * Francisco Sebastião

Artistic Staff
Source:


 * Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson
 * Ballet Master & Assistant to the Artistic Director: Ricardo Bustamante
 * Ballet Masters
 * Felipe Diaz
 * Betsy Erickson
 * Anita Paciotti
 * Katita Waldo
 * Company Teachers
 * Helgi Tomasson
 * Ricardo Bustamante
 * Felipe Diaz
 * Choreographer in Residence: Yuri Possokhov
 * Music Director and Principal Conductor: Martin West
 * Other Artistic Staff
 * Caroline Giese, Artistic Administrator
 * Alan Takata-Villareal, Logistics Manager
 * Abby Masters, Assistant to the Artistic Staff

Music Director and Musicians

 * Music Director & Principal Conductor: Martin West