San Francisco Ballet group of his students, he founded the Utah Civic Ballet (now known as Ballet West) in 1963; the company remained under Christensen's directorship until 1978. Under Balanchine's tutelage at American Ballet, Lew Christensen became the first American-born "danseur noble". The United States Army drafted Christensen to fight in World War II. After the war ended, he joined Balanchine's and Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Society (soon to become New York City Ballet), eventually becoming ballet master; he served in the role from 1946 until 1950. In 1951, he joined his brother Willam as co-director of San Francisco Ballet. When Willam moved to
Sega Studios San Francisco was to be used for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game called "Proteus", a successor to "Star Wars Galaxies". Development of Pangaea was halted in 2004 after Lucasarts reorganized under Jim Ward. Some of the ideas later informed the design of the studio's internal Riders engine used on "" and "Iron Man". Sidecar was a standalone UI authoring tool and SDK. Sidecar was used on several projects both internally and externally, among them, "", by Z-Axis. Sega Studios San Francisco Sega Studios San Francisco, formerly known as Secret Level Inc, was an American video game developer based in San Francisco,