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Article: Pioneering San Francisco Ballet celebrates diamond anniversary
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- January 23, 2008
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THE SAN Francisco Ballet's 75th anniversary opened with a sold-
out "Diamond Gala Celebration" performance Wednesday night at the
Opera House, and the diamond jubilee is being marked by everything
from a $60 coffee-table book complete with DVD to a repertoire
season crammed with 10 new works.
There will be tributes and reunions and nostalgic interviews and
dinner parties and a proclamation from the mayor, certainly. It's
all heady stuff, and a remarkable achievement for a dance company
that started in the midst of the Great Depression as an adjunct to
the San Francisco Opera, cheated death twice and performed America's
first "Nutcracker" with a production tacked together from thrift-
store ...
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