Jennifer Stahl

Biography

Born in Dana Point, California, Jennifer Stahl trained at Maria Lazar’s Classical Ballet Academy and San Francisco Ballet School. She was named an apprentice with San Francisco Ballet in 2005, joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2006, promoted to soloist in 2013, principal dancer in 2017, and appointed Diana Dollar Knowles Principal Dancer in 2024. 

Snapshot
  • BORN 

Dana Point, California 

  • TRAINING 

Maria Lazar’s Classical Ballet Academy 

San Francisco Ballet School 

  • SAN FRANCISCO BALLET 

Named an apprentice in 2005 

Joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2006 

Promoted to soloist in 2013 

Promoted to principal dancer in 2017 

Appointed Diana Dollar Knowles Principal Dancer in 2024

Repertoire - SF Ballet
  • ADAM 

Night 

  • BALANCHINE

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania, Hippolyta, Divertissement Ensemble) 

Agon (1st Pas de trois) 

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet 

Coppélia (Waltz of the Hours Soloist, Mazurka, Czardas) 

Diamonds 

Divertimento No. 15 

Emeralds 

The Four Temperaments (2nd Theme, Choleric) 

Prodigal Son (Siren) 

Rubies  

Serenade (Dark Angel) 

Stars and Stripes (Finale) 

Stravinsky Violin Concerto (Aria I) 

Symphony in C (4th movement) 

Symphony in Three Movements (3rd Pas de deux) 

Theme and Variations 

  • BARTON

Mere Mortals (originated Pandora) 

  • BINTLEY

The Dance House 

  • BLANC 

Gateway to the Sun (originated) 

  • BREINER

The Queen’s Daughter (originated The Queen) 

  • BUBENÍČEK

Fragile Vessels 

  • CANIPAROLI

Foreshadow (originated Anna Karenina) 

Ibsen’s House (Mrs. Alving in “Ghosts”) 
 

  • CRANKO

Onegin 

  • ELO 

Double Evil 

  • FOKINE 

Petrouchka (Nursemaid) 

  • FORSYTHE 

Artifact Suite 

Blake Works I 

in the middle, somewhat elevated 

Pas/Parts 2016 (originated) 

The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude 

  • KUDELKA 

The Ruins Proclaim The Building Was Beautiful 

  • LIANG

Symphonic Dances 

  • LIFAR

Suite en Blanc (Flute, Sieste) 

  • MACMILLAN

Song of the Earth (Woman)
 

  • MARSTON

Mrs. Robinson (originated Mrs. Braddock) 

Snowblind (Zeena Frome) 

  • MCGREGOR

Borderlands 

  • MCINTYRE

The Big Hunger (originated Principal) 

Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem (originated) 

  • MILLEPIED

Appassionata 

The Chairman Dances—Quartet for Two 

  • MORRIS 

Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes 

A Garden 

Joyride (originated) 

Maelstrom 

Sandpaper Ballet 

Sylvia 

  • NEUMEIER

The Little Mermaid (Mermaid Sisters, Nuns) 

  • NUREYEV 

Raymonda—Act III 

  • PAGE

Guide to Strange Places 

  • PECK 

In the Countenance of Kings (originated Botanica) 
 

  • POSSOKHOV

Firebird (Firebird) 

Magrittomania 

Reflections 

The Rite of Spring (originated) 

Swimmer (Nighthawks Pas de deux) 

“… two united in a single soul…” 

  • RATMANSKY

Le Carnaval des Animaux (Swan, Jellyfish) 

From Foreign Lands (German Principal, Polish) 

Russian Seasons (Purple Woman) 

Symphony #9 and Chamber Symphony in Shostakovich Trilogy 

The Seasons (Frost) 
 

  • RHODEN

LET’S BEGIN AT THE END (originated) 

The Promised Land  

  • ROBBINS

The Cage (Queen)  

Glass Pieces 

In the Night (2nd Pas de deux) 

Opus 19/The Dreamer 

West Side Story Suite 

  • ROWE

MADCAP (originated The Oracle)  

  • SCARLETT

Fearful Symmetries  

Frankenstein (Caroline Beaufort, Madame Moritz) 

  • SMITH 

Carmen (originated Escamillo) 

  • THATCHER 

Ghost in the Machine 

Manifesto (originated) 

  • TOMASSON

Criss-Cross (Aves–Schoenberg movement) 

Don Quixote (Mercedes, Queen of the Driads, Driads, Seguidilla, Fandango) 

Giselle (Myrtha) 

Nutcracker (Mrs. Stahlbaum, Party Guests, Queen of the Snow, Snowflakes, Mirlitons, Arabian, Sugar Plum Fairy, Flowers, Grand Pas de deux) 

On a Theme of Paganini 

On Common Ground (originated) 

Prism 

Romeo & Juliet (Lady Capulet) 

The Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy, Fairy of Darkness/Carabosse, Fairy of Courage, Garland Dance, Nymphs) 

Swan Lake (Swan Maidens, Swans, Peasants, Mazurka, Spanish Princess) 

  • WELCH 

Bespoke (originated) 

Naked 

  • WHEELDON

Bound To (originated) 

Carousel (A Dance) 

Cinderella (Stepmother Hortensia, Spirit of Winter/Fluidity, Russian Princess, Courtiers) 

Continuum 

Within the Golden Hour 

  • ZANELLA

Underskin  

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