Myles Thatcher

Biography

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Myles Thatcher trained with Margo Clifford Ging, The Harid Conservatory, the Edward Ellison Professional Training Program, and San Francisco Ballet School’s Trainee Program from 2008–2009. He was named an apprentice in 2009, joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2010, and was promoted to soloist in 2020. 

Snapshot
  • BORN 

Atlanta, Georgia  

  • TRAINING 

Margo Clifford Ging 

The Harid Conservatory 

Edward Ellison Professional Training Program 

San Francisco Ballet School Trainee Program, 2008–2009 

  • SAN FRANCISCO BALLET 

Named an apprentice in 2009 

Joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2010 

Promoted to soloist in 2020 

Repertoire - SF Ballet
  • BALANCHINE

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander) 

Allegro Brillante  

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet 

Coppélia (Villagers, War and Discord Corps) 

Diamonds (Demis, Corps) 

The Four Temperaments (3rd Theme) 

Scotch Symphony 

Serenade 

Stars & Stripes (Men’s Regiment) 

Stravinsky Violin Concerto 

Symphony in C (2nd movement Demi-soloist)  

Symphony in Three Movements (Demi-soloist) 

Theme and Variations (Soloist, Corps) 

  • BLANC 

Gateway to the Sun (Principal) 

  • BREINER 

The Queen’s Daughter (The King) 

  • BUBENÍČEK

Fragile Vessels (originated) 

  • CANIPAROLI

Ibsen’s House (Captain Alving/Oswald Alving in “Ghosts”) 

Lambarena, (Principal) 

Tears (originated Soloist) 

  • CRANKO 

Onegin (Lensky, Corps) 

  • FOKINE 

Petrouchka 

  • FORSYTHE 

Artifact Suite 

Pas/Parts 2016 

  • KING 

The Collective Agreement (originated) 

  • LANDER 

Études (excerpt) | (Gentlemen) 

  • LIANG

The Infinite Ocean 

  • LIFAR

Suite en Blanc (Pas de cinq, Corps) 

  • LOPEZ OCHOA

Broken Wings (Male Fridas) 

Guernica (originated Principal Couples) 

  • MARSTON

Mrs. Robinson (originated Ensemble) 

  • MCINTYRE 

The Big Hunger (originated) 

  • MORRIS 

Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes 

Sandpaper Ballet 

  • NEUMEIER

The Little Mermaid 

  • NUREYEV 

Raymonda—Act III 

  • PECK

Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes 

  • PITA

Salome (originated Hostages)  

  • POSSOKHOV

Classical Symphony 

Firebird 

Fusion 

Magrittomania 

created in Optimistic Tragedy (originated Four Sailors) 

The Rite of Spring (Soloist) 

Swimmer (Waiters, Corps) 

  • RATMANSKY

From Foreign Lands (German, Polish, Hungarian)  

Chamber Symphony and Piano Concerto #1 in Shostakovich Trilogy  

The Seasons (Fauns) 

  • ROBBINS 

The Concert 

Glass Pieces  

Opus 19/The Dreamer  

In the Night 

  • ROWE 

MADCAP (The Clown) 

  • SCARLETT 

Frankenstein 

Hummingbird (Soloist, originated Corps) 

  • SMITH 

Carmen (Gilberto) 

  • TOMASSON

Caprice (originated) 

Don Quixote (Gamache, Toreador) 

Giselle (Wilfred, Servant to the Duke, Peasants) 

Haffner Symphony 

Le Quattro Stagioni (Winter) 

Nutcracker (Dr. Stahlbaum, Party Guests, Jack-in-the-Box, King of the Snow, Spanish, Arabian, Russian) 

On a Theme of Paganini 

Prism 

Romeo & Juliet (Paris, Capulet Men) 

Swan Lake (Aristocrats, Peasants, Spanish, Russian, Czardas Lead) 

Trio 

  • WHEELDON

Cinderella (Benjamin, Fates, Summer Corps, Courtiers) 

Continuum  

Ghosts (Soloist) 

Number Nine 

Rush 

Within the Golden Hour (Principal, Soloist, Corps) 

  • ZANELLA 

Underskin  

Honors
  • Nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for Ghost in the Machine, 2018. 
  • Nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for Manifesto, 2016.  
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