Program 5
Three short works that highlight the brilliant range of possibilities blossoming from ballet’s vocabulary. A love letter to Bach, Helgi Tomasson’s poetic 7 for Eight, is elegant and nuanced, with an undercurrent of deep emotion flowing through excerpts from seven keyboard concertos for eight dancers. Myles Thatcher’s COLORFORMS, the break-out hit of the 2021 Digital Season that was filmed during the pandemic at SFMOMA and Golden Gate Park, finally has its stage debut! William Forsythe’s Blake Works I, set to songs from James Blake’s album The Colour in Anything, starts with ballet’s precision, speeds it up, pushes it to the limit of physicality, then refracts it like a kaleidoscope as 21 dancers are driven by pop music and joy.
MAR 14–MAR 19
Packages on sale summer 2022
Single tickets on sale fall 2022
7 for Eight
COMPOSER
Johann Sebastian Bach
CHOREOGRAPHER
Helgi Tomasson
COLORFORMS
COMPOSER
Steve Reich
Choreographer
Myles Thatcher
BLAKE WORKS I
COMPOSER
James Blake
Choreographer
William Forsythe
Packages on sale summer 2022.
Single tickets on sale fall 2022.

7 for Eight
Costumer Design: Sandra Woodall
Lighting Design: David Finn
World Premiere: February 26, 2004—San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
COLORFORMS
Costume Design: Susan Roemer
Lighting Design: Jim French
World Premiere: February 11, 2021—San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
Blake Works I
Staged by: Ayman Harper
Costume Design: Dorothee Merg and William Forsythe
Lighting Design: Tanja Ruehl and William Forsythe
World Premiere: July 4, 2016—Paris Opera Ballet, Palais Garnier; Paris, France
San Francisco Ballet Premiere: February 3, 2022—War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California