- Principal
Sasha De Sola
- DIANE B. WILSEY PRINCIPAL DANCER
Biography
Born in Winter Park, Florida, Sasha De Sola trained at the Kirov Academy of Ballet. She was named an SF Ballet apprentice in 2006 and joined the Company in 2007. She was promoted to soloist in 2012 and principal dancer in 2017. She was appointed Diane B. Wilsey Principal Dancer in 2020.
- BORN
Winter Park, Florida
- TRAINING
Kirov Academy of Ballet
- SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
Named an apprentice in 2006
Joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2007
Promoted to soloist in 2012
Promoted to principal dancer in January 2017
Appointed Diane B. Wilsey Principal Dancer in 2020
- BALANCHINE
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania, Divertissement Pas de deux)
Agon (1st Pas de trois)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (1st & 4th movement Principal)
Coppélia (Waltz of the Hours Soloist, Dawn, Jesterettes, Swanilda’s Friends)
Diamonds (Finale) | (Principal)
Divertimento No. 15 (Allegro – Ballerina)
Emeralds
The Four Temperaments
Rubies
Serenade (Russian Girl)
Stars and Stripes (Finale)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Symphony in C (3rd movement Demi-Soloist, 1st movement Principal)
Symphony in Three Movements (1st movement Principal)
Tarantella
Theme and Variations (Demi-Soloist)
- BARTON
Mere Mortals (originated Ensemble)
- BLANC
Gateway to the Sun (originated)
- BREINER
The Queen’s Daughter (originated The Daughter)
- CANIPAROLI
Ibsen’s House (Rebecca West in “Rosmersholm”)
Tears (originated)
- CRANKO
Onegin (Olga, Polonaise)
- FOKINE
Petrouchka
- FORSYTHE
Artifact Suite
Blake Works I (Principal)
Pas/Parts 2016
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
- KUDELKA
The Ruins Proclaim the Building Was Beautiful
- LANDER
Etudes (Excerpt) | (Principal Woman)
- LIANG
Symphonic Dances (Soloist Couple)
- LIFAR
Serenade
Suite en Blanc (Pas de trois)
- MACMILLAN
Song of the Earth (Woman)
- MCGREGOR
Borderlands
- MAKAROVA AFTER PETIPA
La Bayadère, Act II (1st and “Slow” Solo Shades in “The Kingdom of the Shades”)
- MCINTYRE
Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem (originated)
The Big Hunger (Principal)
- MILLEPIED
Appassionata
- MORRIS
Maelstrom
Sandpaper Ballet
- NEUMEIER
The Little Mermaid (Henriette/The Princess)
- NUREYEV
Raymonda—Act III (3rd Classical Solo)
- PAGE
Guide to Strange Places (Quartet)
- PECK
Bloom
- AFTER PETIPA
Le Corsaire (Pas de deux)
- POSSOKHOV
Classical Symphony (Soloist)
The Rite of Spring
Firebird (Princess)
Fusion (Principal)
“… two united in a single soul…”
- RATMANSKY
From Foreign Lands (Russian, Polish, Hungarian)
Symphony #9 and Chamber Symphony in Shostakovich Trilogy
The Seasons (Hail, Bacchante)
- RHODEN
LET’S BEGIN AT THE END (originated)
The Promised Land (originated Principal)
- ROBBINS
The Concert
Dances at a Gathering (Blue)
Fancy Free (Pas de deux Principal)
Glass Pieces (1st movement Soloist Couple)
In the Night (1st Pas de deux)
Other Dances
West Side Story Suite
- ROWE
MADCAP (originated The Mirror)
- SCARLETT
Fearful Symmetries
Frankenstein (Justine Moritz)
Hummingbird (originated)
- SMITH
Carmen (originated Carmen)
- THATCHER
05:49 (originated)
COLORFORMS (originated)
Ghost in the Machine (originated)
Stone and Steel
- TOMASSON
Blue Rose
Don Quixote (Kitri, Bridesmaids, Kitri’s Friends, Seguidilla, Driad Queen, Driads, Fandango)
The Fifth Season
Giselle (Giselle, Myrtha, Solo Wili, Peasant Pas de cinq)
Haffner Symphony (Principal)
Harmony
Nutcracker (Party Guests, Queen of the Snow, Snowflakes, Sugar Plum Fairy, Spanish, Mirlitons, Flowers, Grand Pas de deux)
On a Theme of Paganini (Principal)
Prism (Principal)
Romeo & Juliet
The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Nymphs, Polonaise, Act III Pas de deux)
Swan Lake (Act I Pas de trois, Aristocrats, Odette-Odile, Swan Maidens, Czardas, Russian, Peasants)
Trio (1st movement Principal)
- WELCH
Bespoke (originated)
- WHEELDON
Bound To (originated)
Cinderella (Cinderella, Stepsister Edwina, Spirit of Winter/Fluidity, Russian Princess)
Continuum
Ghosts (Soloist Couple)
Number Nine
Rush (2nd movement Pas de deux)
Within the Golden Hour
- Won the silver medal in the Professional Division at the World International Ballet Competition in Orlando, Florida, 2007.
- Received Best Junior Couple Prize at the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, 2006.
- Awarded the Junior Division bronze medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, 2006.
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