The Nutcracker - December 01 - December 03, 2017
The School of Performing Arts
Who's Who
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WanTing Zhao
as Sugar Plum
WanTing Zhao (San Francisco Ballet) has danced principal or featured roles in Tomasson’s Giselle (Solo Wili), Nutcracker (Queen of the Snow, Spanish, Arabian, French, and Grand Pas de Deux Ballerina), Romeo & Juliet (Rosaline), Swan Lake (Aristocrats, Swan Maidens, and Spanish), and Prism (principal); Balanchine’s Coppélia (Prayer), Diamonds (soloist), The Four Temperaments (3rd Theme), Prodigal Son (Siren), and Rubies (principal); Lifar’s Suite en Blanc (Cigarette, pas de deux, and pas de trois); Makarova’s (after Petipa) “The Kingdom of the Shades” from La Bayadère, Act II (Solo Shade); van Manen’s Variations for Two Couples; Nureyev’s Raymonda—Act III (1st solo); Pita’s Salome (Salome); Possokhov’s Swimmer (Aquarium); Scarlett’s Fearful Symmetries (principal); Thatcher’s Frayed; and Wheeldon’s Cinderella (Spirit of Winter/Fluidity and Balinese Princess).
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Steven Morse
as Cavalier
Steven Morse (San Francisco Ballet) created roles in Thatcher’s Ghost in the Machine and Manifesto (principal), Tomasson’s Caprice (soloist), and Bubeníček’s Fragile Vessels, Peck’s In the Countenance of Kings, Possokhov’s Optimistic Tragedy (Four Sailors), and Scarlett’s Hummingbird. He has danced principal or featured roles in Tomasson’s Nutcracker, Romeo & Juliet, The Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake; Tomasson/Possokhov’s Don Quixote; Balanchine’s Coppélia and Diamonds; Caniparoli’s Ibsen’s House and Lambarena; Possokhov’s Magrittomania and RAkU; Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering and In the Night; Scarlett’s Fearful Symmetries (principal); and Wheeldon’s Cinderella.
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