Tamara Rojo: ‘Ballet is competing with Netflix – that’s what audiences expect’
The former artistic director of English National Ballet has swapped London for San Francisco, where she’s bringing AI and clubbing into the theatre – while passing on the legacy of British dance
January 2022
Tamara Rojo to leave English National Ballet after 10 years as artistic director
The Spanish dancer will step down later this year, becoming artistic director at San Francisco Ballet, where her husband is a principal
March 2021
Lockdown culture
San Francisco Ballet review – vintage glamour and Cheever's Swimmer reimagined
Danielle Rowe’s new work amps up the fizz, while archive pieces by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Possokhov offer dreamlike diversions and sleek stylings
January 2021
Lockdown culture
San Francisco Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – two acts of pure dance run smooth
George Balanchine’s take on Shakespearean comedy may be more geometric than romantic, but the most delicate moments of this performance are truly enchanting
August 2020
Lockdown culture
No standing still: the best of lockdown dance
From an elegant ode to San Francisco to Japanese hip-hop in a park, here’s how dancers are tackling our new normal
December 2019
Best culture 2019
Top 10 dance shows of 2019
A snogtastic Romeo and Juliet from Matthew Bourne and an international dance-a-thon celebrating Merce Cunningham join a mixed troupe of winners
June 2019
Sergei Polunin/Rasputin; Royal Ballet; San Francisco Ballet; Kalakuta Republik – review
The Firebird gets a new lease of life, while Alexei Ratmansky’s inventive trilogy mixes Björk with Edith Wharton
San Francisco Ballet: scorching dancers leave their hearts in London
The American company visited the UK with four triple bills: here are 10 things we learned from their thrilling season
San Francisco Ballet review – California dreaming and a Björk nightmare
A season of 10 UK premieres opens with a cold-hearted Edith Wharton tale, Soviet struggles with Shostakovich, and an X-rated artpop class
May 2019
Ballet legend Alexei Ratmansky: how Shostakovich shook me up
As he takes his celebrated Shostakovich Trilogy to London, the choreographer explains how he was inspired by the Russian composer’s political risks
May 2018
Big time sensuality: hyper Björk ballet unveiled in San Francisco
Arthur Pita’s show mixes eight of the Icelandic singer’s tracks into a cacophony of glamour, craziness and fairytale at the Unbound festival
July 2014
Dance blog
San Francisco Ballet – an American company in Paris
Dance blog
City of dance: San Francisco Ballet's feverish summer in Paris
September 2012
San Francisco Ballet –review
San Francisco Ballet's precision and personality dazzled in a largely successful mixed programme, writes Luke Jennings
Stage reviews by readers
Stage reader reviews roundup: Love and Information, Antony and Cleopatra and San Francisco Ballet
Our weekly roundup of your reviews and thoughts on the performances you've seen in the past seven days
San Francisco Ballet Programme 3 – review
San Francisco Ballet Programme 2 – review
San Francisco Ballet Programme 1 – review
April 2008
Many hippy returns
San Francisco Ballet is 75 years old. How did it celebrate? With a few spliffs and a maelstrom of movement, writes Judith Mackrell
July 2005
Paris wins at last
Dance: San Francisco comes to the aid of the French capital.
