SF Ballet x Legion of Honor
JOIN US FOR SPECIAL EVENTS WITH FAMSF
SF Ballet is pleased to collaborate with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) in celebration of the Legion of Honor’s 100th anniversary. Join us throughout 2025 for special pre-performance talks, lectures, family dance-along workshops, sensory friendly programs, a chamber music series, and more. The cross-disciplinary partnership forges new collaborations across San Francisco’s cultural sector and furthers the Ballet’s mission of infusing fresh perspectives into ballet while uplifting local creativity.
Upcoming Events
CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES AT LEGION OF HONOR
OCT 11, 2025
Join us at the Legion of Honor for a chamber music series featuring members of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Free with admission to the museum. Every Saturday the Legion of Honor offers free general admission to all residents of the nine Bay Area counties.
Past Events
FAMILY DANCE-ALONG AT LEGION OF HONOR
JUN 28, 2025
Join us for a Family Dance-Along workshop with San Francisco Ballet School in conjunction with the exhibition Dress Rehearsal: The Art of Theatrical Design on view at the Legion of Honor. This workshop is perfect for all ages and abilities, including families with young children from ages 2-7.
CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES AT LEGION OF HONOR
FEB 8, MAR 29, 2025
Join us at the Legion of Honor for a chamber music series featuring members of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Free with admission to the museum. Every Saturday the Legion of Honor offers free general admission to all residents of the nine Bay Area counties.
A Conversation on Krazy Kat + Thiebaud
May 17, 2025
Join us for a panel discussion on San Francisco Ballet’s 1990 production of Krazy Kat in conjunction with the special exhibition Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art. This conversation will feature the ballet’s choreographer and ODC Artistic Director, Brenda Way, and original SF Ballet cast member Grace Holmes, currently Director of SF Ballet School. This lecture-demonstration will highlight the stage production, which was designed by Thiebaud, as well as the choreography of the work.
A Closer Look: Dutch National Identity in 17th-Century Paintings
Apr 17, 2025
Join us before the April 17th performance of Van Manen: Dutch Grandmaster for a special pre-performance lecture with Dr. Isabella Lores-Chavez, associate curator of European paintings, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Renaissance + Baroque Sculpture at the Legion of Honor
Feb 19, 2025
Join us before the February 19th performance of Cool Britannia for a special pre-performance conversation with Bay Area artist Ranu Mukherjee. For the 24/25 season, SF Ballet and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco commissioned Mukherjee to create the curtain drop for Cool Britannia. The work takes inspiration from each of the three ballets that make up the mixed bill, evoking the angular choreography of Sir Wayne McGregor’s Chroma; attention to light in Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour; and depiction of World War I in Akram Khan’s Dust, incorporating plants that were used for medicinal properties at that time.
About the fine arts museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco oversee the de Young museum, located in Golden Gate Park, and the Legion of Honor, in Lincoln Park. It is the largest public arts institution in San Francisco, and one of the most visited arts institutions in the United States.
The Legion of Honor, modeled after the neoclassical Palais de la Légion d’Honneur in Paris, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2024. The collections on view include ancient art from the Mediterranean basin; European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the largest collection of works on paper in the American West, including costume and set designs by celebrated artists from Ballets Russes designer Léon Bakst, to avant-garde painters Natalia Goncharova, Pablo Picasso, and Marie Laurencin, to contemporary artist Marcel Dzama. Highlights from this special collection are currently on view at the Legion in the exhibition “The Dress Rehearsal: The Art of Theatrical Design”, open through May 11, 2025.
The FAMSF Department of Contemporary Art and Programming (CAP) presents an innovative and dynamic program of Contemporary Art commissions, exhibitions, and interventions that incite dialogues, embrace a multiplicity of perspectives, and shed new light on both the past and the present. Recent programs and acquisitions include works by Yinka Shonibare, Wangechi Mutu, Pierre Huyghe, Hito Steyerl, Carrie Mae Weems, and 30 Bay Area artists through the transformative Svane Gift among many others.