San Francisco Ballet slid into a slump just after the season opened, with two programs of mixed bills, one of them above average and the other - well, the best said about Program 3 is that the dancers saved it.

San Francisco Ballet opened their winter season with the greatest of all classical ballets, The Sleeping Beauty, in a thrilling show that continues through this weekend.

Thousands of people came out despite intermittent rain for the Gala Opening Night of San Francisco Ballet's 85th season.

San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker, the longest-running complete production of this ballet in the country, opened its umpteenth annual run last week at the Opera House.

In a New York Times piece given the headline "10 Ways to Tell If Your 'Nutcracker' Is True to Tradition," dance critic Alistair Macaulay laid down the law about what does and does not constitute an authentic "Nutcracker."

The Joffrey Ballet put on a fun evening's entertainment two weekends ago in Berkeley.

Michelle Dorrance's tap dancers performed last Friday night at Zellerbach Hall.

It's a huge pleasure to see our great ballet company the San Francisco Ballet in late summer, after months of their being out of the Opera House.

For four decades the hottest dance entertainment of the summer has been the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.

San Francisco is the major center for dance outside New York. Probably the most important reason we stay at that level is the outstanding quality of the company that bears its name

The award-winning Sean Dorsey Dance kicks off its 2017 home season next week at Z Space with a world premier of short works and a sneak peek of the San Francisco-based company's 2018 full-length show.