In celebration of the Ballet's anniversary, Chronicle Books has published San Francisco Ballet at Seventy-Five, a stunning portrait of the company today.

Dance scholar and historian Janice Ross explores San Francisco Ballet's ascent from its humble beginnings in 1933 to its current status as an internationally acclaimed cultural institution. The illustrated volume, with more than 100 full-color and archival photographs, includes a DVD that provides insight into the Company's illustrious history, including interviews with key insiders and exclusive footage of rehearsals and performances. It is being distributed by Chronicle Books, sold online and is available for purchase in San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House Ballet Shop.

Flip through an interactive portion of San Francisco Ballet at Seventy-Five or pre-order the book online. Books will be shipped starting October 17, 2007.

Janice Ross, an associate professor of dance history in the drama department at Stanford University, was staff dance critic for the Oakland Tribune and San Francisco correspondent for Dance Magazine for 20 years. She is the author of Moving Lessons: Margaret H’Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education and Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance (for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship), and her essays on dance have appeared in numerous publications. A past president of the Dance Critics Association, she is currently president-elect of the Society of Dance History Scholars. She lives in Atherton, California.