Article: Pioneering San Francisco Ballet celebrates diamond anniversary

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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