Sasha De Sola

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. 

Snapshot
  • 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 

Repertoire - SF Ballet
  • 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 

Honors
  • 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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