Pointes of View

Dance Scholar and Educator Mary Wood, along with other guests, hosts each program in salon-style interviews with San Francisco Ballet dancers, guest artists, choreographers, musicians, and designers.

Pointes of View is held on pre-selected Wednesday evenings from 6–7pm in the Green Room, located on the second floor of the Veterans Building, or in Herbst Theatre, on the ground floor of the Veterans Building. Conveniently located across the courtyard from the War Memorial Opera House at 401 Van Ness Avenue (at McAllister Street), these hour-long lectures are free and open to the public.

Wood received a BFA from the University of Utah and performed for nine years with Ballet West under the directorship of Willam Christensen. After relocating to San Francisco in 1975, she taught children’s and adult ballet technique and ballet history at the San Francisco Ballet School, pioneered the Dance in Schools program, and was principal lecturer for community outreach efforts during the 1980s. She has moderated the Pointes of View Lectures since 1986 the Meet the Artist Interviews since 1995, and serves as a guest lecturer of San Francisco Ballet’s adult education program, Ballet 101.

2008 Schedule
Please note that program-specific information will be posted here as it becomes available, and all programs are subject to change.

Program 1
Wednesday, January 30, Green Room
6:00pm
Mary Wood interviews Ballet School Administrative Manager and former Principal Dancer Jim Sohm

Program 2
Wednesday, February 6, Green Room
6:00pm
Mary Wood interviews Executive Director Glenn McCoy

Program 3
Wednesday, February 20, Herbst Theatre
6:00pm
Mary Wood interviews former Principal Dancer Joanna Berman as well as Principal Dancers Tina LeBlanc and Katita Waldo

Program 5
Wednesday, March 12, Green Room
6:00pm
Mary Wood interviews Artistic Director and Choreographer
Helgi Tomasson

Program 4
Wednesday, March 19, Green Room
6:00pm
Mary Wood interviews Ballet Master Ricardo Bustamante

Program 6
Wednesday, April 2, Green Room
6:00pm
Mary Wood interviews Karen Kain, Artistic Director, National Ballet of Canada, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Choreographer-Director, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and Sean Lavery, Assistant to the Ballet Master in Chief, New York City Ballet, New York City Ballet

New Works Festival
Wednesday, April 30, Green Room
6:00pm
Mary Wood interviews, New Work Festival Choreographers Julia Adam, Margaret Jenkins, and Val Caniparoli

For more information, please contact Cecelia Beam, adult education coordinator, at cbeam@sfballet.org or 415.553.4664.