Spring Community Matinees

San Francisco Ballet's Center for Dance Education invites school and community groups to two inspiring afternoons of world-class dance performed by one of the Bay Area’s true gems: San Francisco Ballet

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Excerpts from Serenade and Company B
11:30am–12:45pm 

Set to the big-band era songs of The Andrew Sisters, Company B illuminates dominant social issues and the uplifting and sorrowful emotions that surround them. Serenade, a large-scale work of 28 dancers, is the first original ballet that George Balanchine created in America. Recommended for grades 2 and higher.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Petrouchka and excerpts from in the middle, somewhat elevated
11:30am–12:45pm 

Making its SF Ballet premiere this season, Michel Fokine’s Petrouchka is a tragic classical tale of a Russian puppet come to life that fuses music, ballet, and history in perfect balance. William Forsythe’s dynamic in the middle, somewhat elevated investigates ballet’s standard vocabulary, redefining its boundaries along the way. Recommended for grades 5 and higher

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