Isabella DeVivo

Biography

Born in Great Neck, New York, Isabella DeVivo trained at the School of American Ballet and San Francisco Ballet School, including the SF Ballet School Trainee Program from 2012–2013. She joined San Francisco Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2013 and was promoted to soloist in 2017. 

Snapshot
  • BORN 

Great Neck, New York 

  • TRAINING 

School of American Ballet 

San Francisco Ballet School Trainee Program, 2012–2013 

  • SAN FRANCISCO BALLET 

Joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2013 

Promoted to soloist in 2017 

Repertoire - SF Ballet
  • BALANCHINE

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia, Lead Butterfly, Divertissement Ensemble) 

Allegro Brillante  

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (Corps in 2nd movement Pas de deux) 

Coppélia (Swanilda’s Friends, Jesterettes)  

Divertimento No. 15 (Allegro – Fouetté Woman) 

The Four Temperaments (Melancholic Demi-Soloist, Sanguinic) 

Serenade (Russian Corps) 

Stravinsky Violin Concerto  

Symphony in C 

Theme and Variations (Soloist) 

  • BARTON

Mere Mortals (originated Ensemble) 

  • CANIPAROLI

Emergence 

Ibsen’s House (Ellida Wangel in “Lady from the Sea”) 

Lambarena 

Tears (Principal) 

  • CRANKO 

Onegin 

  • FORSYTHE 

Blake Works I (Featured Role) 

Pas/Parts 2016 
 

  • GARLAND 

Haffner Serenade (Principal) 

  • LANDER 

Etudes (excerpt) | (Ladies in White) 

  • LIANG

The Infinite Ocean 

  • LOPEZ OCHOA

Broken Wings (Frida) 

  • MACMILLAN 

Concerto (Corps in Pas de deux excerpt) 

Song of the Earth 

  • MAKAROVA after Petipa  

La Bayadère, Act II (“The Kingdom of the Shades”) 

  • MCINTYRE

Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem (originated) 

  • MILLEPIED  

The Chairman Dances—Quartet for Two (originated) 
 

  • MORRIS

Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes 

Maelstrom 

Sandpaper Ballet 

  • NEUMEIER

The Little Mermaid (Mermaid’s Sisters) 

  • PECK 

Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Principal) 

In the Countenance of Kings (Quantus, Corps) 

  • POSSOKHOV

Classical Symphony 

Firebird 

Swimmer 

  • RATMANSKY

From Foreign Lands (Russian, Spanish, Hungarian) 

Le Reveil de Flore (originated Principal) 

Symphony #9 and Piano Concerto #1 in Shostakovich Trilogy 

The Seasons (The Swallow, Bacchante) 

  • RHODEN

LET’S BEGIN AT THE END (originated) 

The Promised Land (originated Principal) 

  • ROBBINS 

Glass Pieces 

  • ROBERTS 

Resurrection (originated Corps) 

  • SCARLETT

Die Toteninsel (originated) 

Fearful Symmetries (Principal, Corps) 

Frankenstein 

Hummingbird (Principal, Soloist) 

  • SCHREIER

Kin (originated Corps) 

  • THATCHER 

COLORFORMS (originated) 

Ghost in the Machine (originated) 

Manifesto (originated) 

Stone and Steel 
 

  • TOMASSON

Caprice (originated) 

Don Quixote (Kitri’s Friends, Cupid)  

The Fifth Season 

Giselle (Peasant Pas de cinq, Giselle’s Friends, Solo Wilis, Wilis) 

Nutcracker (Ballerina Doll, Bridget, Queen of the Snow, Snowflakes, Sugar Plum Fairy, Spanish, Flowers) 

Romeo & Juliet (Acrobats, Harlots) 

The Sleeping Beauty (Fairy of Serenity, Diamond Fairy, Enchanted Princess, White Cat, Bluebird Pas de deux) 

Swan Lake (Act I Pas de trois, Cygnets, Swans, Neapolitan, Russian) 

Trio 

Two Bits 

  • WELCH

Bespoke (originated) 

  • WHEELDON

Bound To (originated) 

Cinderella (Cinderella, Stepsister Clementine, Stepsister Edwina, Spirit of Spring/Lightness Soloist, Spring Corps, Spanish Princess, Attendants to the Princesses, Courtiers)  

Finale Finale (originated Principal) 

Rush 

Within the Golden Hour 

Repertoire - other companies
  • BALANCHINE

Coppélia 

George Balanchine’s The NutcrackerTM (Marie) 

Mozartiana 

  • PETIPA

Harlequinade 

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