San Francisco Ballet School across the Bay Area. These matinees are shortened programs with excerpts of ballets the company is currently performing. After the retirement of Harold Christensen in 1975, Richard L. Cammack was brought in as School director by the SF Ballet Company’s new co-director, Michael Smuin. Under Cammack’s leadership, SF Ballet School was federally approved for foreign students and received authorization from the California Department of Education. Cammack also oversaw the School’s move to its current state-of-the-art facilities on Franklin Street in 1983. When Helgi Tomasson became San Francisco Ballet’s new artistic director and leader of the School in 1985, he appointed
San Francisco Ballet School including some overseas. The School’s summer session offers two programs for student dancers ages 12 to 18 at the intermediate and advanced/pre-professional levels. Program 1 is a three-week intermediate program. Program 2 is a four-week intensive program for advanced and pre-professional students. Prior to 2015, the School’s Pre-ballet program was for children aged six and seven. Starting in 2015, the pre-ballet program was expanded to include classes for children aged four and five. Pre-ballet requires no audition, though class size is limited. The program’s classes meet once a week; the children focus on basic ballet technique, proper body alignment, and