San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) has revealed its 2026–2027 Season. Curated by Creative Director Tamara Rojo, the season explores ballet’s wealthy and wide-ranging legacy whereas pointing to its continued evolution, spearheaded by the artwork type’s most adventurous visionaries.
SF Ballet’s new season features a mixed-bill reimagining the spirit of the Ballets Russes for immediately that features a world premiere fee from Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, introduced alongside Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Faun and Yuri Possokhov’s Violin Concerto; a world premiere fee from William Forsythe for the 2027 Opening Night time Gala; an evening-length program of all three works in George Balanchine’s Jewels, carried out by the Firm in its entirety for the primary time in 17 years; a showcase of Europe’s main up to date choreographers, together with Hans van Manen, Christopher Wheeldon, and Akram Khan; luxurious story ballets together with The Sleeping Magnificence and A Midsummer Night time’s Dream; and extra.
SF Ballet’s attain extends past San Francisco as the corporate embarks on a landmark tour this summer season, returning to Jacob’s Pillow for his or her annual Pageant for the primary time 70 years after the corporate’s East Coast debut, and bringing Mere Mortals abroad, presenting its European premiere on the Edinburgh Worldwide Pageant and anchoring Sadler’s Wells’ autumn season.
SF Ballet’s 2026–27 Season will embrace a number of highlights. The annual custom of The Nutcracker returns because the beloved household vacation favourite, set in San Francisco and honoring the corporate’s legacy as the primary to current a full-length manufacturing of the ballet.
The season may even characteristic Helgi Tomasson’s The Sleeping Magnificence after Marius Petipa, a ballet for all ages that preserves the grandeur of this Nineteenth-century traditional, broadly considered the top of the classical ballet canon.
A standout combined invoice titled Titans of Choreography will showcase the stylistic range of three main up to date European choreographers: the precision of Hans van Manen’s Grosse Fuge, the lyricism of Christopher Wheeldon’s Inside the Golden Hour, and the visceral storytelling of Akram Khan’s Mud.
George Balanchine’s Jewels will return to the Battle Memorial Opera Home in full for the primary time since 2009. This beloved work explores ballet’s cultural lineage throughout France (Emeralds), the USA (Rubies), and Imperial Russia (Diamonds).
The season additionally consists of Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night time’s Dream, a magical journey by William Shakespeare’s enchanted forest, full with costume and set designs by French designer Christian Lacroix.
Divine Creatures, one other combined invoice, pays homage to Sergei Diaghilev’s revolutionary Ballets Russes. It encompasses a world premiere by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber with music by Andy Akiho, the SF Ballet debut of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Faun — which reinterprets Nijinsky and Debussy’s mythic visions by a contemporary lens — and Yuri Possokhov’s technically sensible Violin Concerto.
Lastly, the season will welcome the return of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, the high-drama story ballet centered on the struggles of a tragic heroine and broadly thought-about one of many choreographer’s most interesting works.
“SF Ballet’s 2026–27 season brings collectively a outstanding constellation of legendary artists—visionaries who’ve formed the trajectory of ballet and people who proceed to outline it immediately,” mentioned Tamara Rojo, Creative Director of SF Ballet. “I’m particularly thrilled to carry Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, a inventive partnership that’s redefining what up to date choreography could be, to San Francisco. Rooted in threat and reinvention, and with a variety of tales and feelings captured on stage, this season will function a strong reminder that ballet is ever-evolving—and has by no means been extra important.”
Single tickets for the 2026–27 Season will go on sale this fall. Packages are on sale in July.
In August 2026, SF Ballet joins the 94th season of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Pageant, returning to the Berkshires precisely 70 years after the corporate’s East Coast debut in 1956, the final time the corporate carried out on the pageant. An expansive two-stage engagement will characteristic a combined program comprised of works by choreographers together with William Forsythe, Hans van Manen, and Tamara Rojo.
Later in August, SF Ballet will current the European premiere of Mere Mortals because the Edinburgh Worldwide Pageant’s (EIF) flagship dance efficiency, returning for the primary time in 20 years alongside different handpicked applications of world-leading opera, music, and theater. Rojo’s inaugural fee for the Firm and SF Ballet’s first full-length fee from a feminine choreographer (Aszure Barton), the EIF engagement of Mere Mortals will characteristic digital music producer, DJ, and composer Floating Factors performing his unique rating dwell alongside the Royal Scottish Nationwide Orchestra.
Mere Mortals will then journey to Sadler’s Wells in London because the anchor of the venue’s autumn season, with a four-evening engagement that includes Floating Factors performing alongside the Royal Ballet Sinfonia.
Further touring engagements in 2026 shall be introduced on a later date.
Go to sfballet.org for extra particulars in regards to the 2026-27 Season.
