2003 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents a Performance by the San Francisco Ballet School
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The 2003 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents a Performance by the San Francisco Ballet School
Sunday, May 18, 2-4 pm
San Francisco, CA. April 24, 2003. As part of the 2003 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, students from the San Francisco Ballet School will perform dances by Helgi Tomasson, Lew Christensen, and George Balanchine. Bring a blanket, a hat, and a picnic and enjoy this FREE performance in the Esplanade Gardens on Sunday, May 18 from 2 to 4 pm.
The program includes Little Waltz choreographed by Helgi Tomasson with music by Eric Coates; Variations de Ballet choreographed by Lew Christensen with music by Alexander Glazunov; Concerto Barocco choreographed by George Balanchine with music by J.S. Bach; and Valse-Fantaisie, also choreographed by George Balanchine with music by Mikhail Glinka.
For as long as there has been a San Francisco Ballet, there has been a San Francisco Ballet School. It was established in 1933 as a single institution by Gaetano Merola, founding director of the San Francisco Opera. San Francisco became the only city in the country other than New York to claim a ballet school as an auxiliary to an established opera company. In 1942 the San Francisco Ballet Guild bought the school from the San Francisco Opera and the school evolved into one of the country's finest classical academies. Scholarship programs were initiated, and the faculty came to include numerous prominent classical ballet teachers.
Free artistic and cultural programming in Yerba Buena Gardens has been made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, KTB Management Group, the San Francisco Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the W.A. Gerbode Foundation, and other sponsors. Media sponsors for Festival 2003 are JC Decaux, KDFC, San Francisco Downtown Magazine, Dance Magazine, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Yerba Buena Arts & Events, organizer of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, is located at 760 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Phone (415) 543-1718; Fax (415) 543-1755; e-mail: ybgf@ybgf.org
http://ybgf.org
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