San Francisco Ballet (Outdoors)

After a 70-year absence, the nation’s longest-running professional ballet company will perform at the nation’s longest-running dance festival this summer. Led by Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet will come to Jacob’s Pillow for the first time since 1956 to perform a mixed program featuring Grosse Fuge and 5 Tangos by Hans van Manen, Three Preludes by Ben Stevenson, and the pas de deux from Diamonds by George Balanchine.

In an exciting campus takeover, San Francisco Ballet will run performances in the Ted Shawn Theatre during the same week as the performances on the outdoor Henry J. Leir Stage. Audiences interested in attending both programs will be able to enjoy the full outdoor performance in time to make it over to the indoor performance.

Deemed “strikingly modern [and] technically stunning” (Daily Californian), San Francisco Ballet is a world-leading ballet company and a trailblazing commissioner, collaborator, and presenter in dance. Along with American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet, the company has been described in the "triumvirate of great classical companies defining the American style on the world stage today” (The Observer).

Since its founding in 1933, the company has been an innovator in the art form and an originator of beloved cultural traditions, from staging the first American production of Swan Lake to bringing an annual holiday Nutcracker to U.S. audiences. With a deep commitment to new and contemporary works and the classical repertoire, San Francisco Ballet invests in commissions and acquisitions, presents established and emerging choreographers, uplifts creatives across disciplines, and cultivates the next generation of the world’s top dancers in its San Francisco Ballet School.

"Triumvirate of great classical companies defining the American style on the world stage today”

The Observer