SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ANNOUNCES COMPANY ROSTER FOR 2022 SEASON   

In the midst of a pandemic, San Francisco Ballet takes on more dancers including Olivia Brothers!

Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson promotes Jasmine Jimison to Soloist and Olivia Brothers to the corps de ballet, effective July 1, 2021 

SAN FRANCISCO, March 22, 2021—San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) announces two promotions and the appointment of four apprentices for the 2022 Season. Effective July 1, SF Ballet corps de ballet member Jasmine Jimison is promoted to Soloist and apprentice Olivia Brothers is promoted to the corps de ballet. Both dancers received training at SF Ballet School; nearly 70 percent of SF Ballet’s current dancers are SF Ballet School alumni. 

“I am pleased to announce the promotion of Jasmine Jimison to Soloist and Olivia Brothers to the corps de ballet. Jasmine is an immensely talented and dedicated young dancer who excels in her roles on stage and, this year, on the screen in Myles Thatcher’s COLORFORMS,” says Helgi Tomasson. “Olivia is a fresh talent who proved this year she is ready to join the corps de ballet. What I am most grateful for in this difficult year is that we’ve kept our entire company of dancers working, and that I was able to offer four apprentice positions to students from San Francisco Ballet School’s Trainee Program. The pandemic has been so difficult for dancers everywhere, but especially those dancers just beginning their careers after years of hard work. I am proud of these dancers and look forward to working with them in the 2022 Season.” 

Jasmine Jimison, called a “breakout talent” (San Francisco Chronicle) for her role in Myles Thatcher’s COLORFORMS in the 2021 Digital Season, joined SF Ballet as an apprentice in 2018 and became a member of the corps de ballet in 2019. As a corps de ballet member, Jimison performed a principal role in Liam Scarlett’s Hummingbird during the Company’s tour to Sadler’s Wells in 2019. As an apprentice, she performed the Bluebird pas de deux, partnered by Principal Dancer Esteban Hernandez, and the Fairy of Playfulness in Tomasson’s The Sleeping Beauty, and Cupid in Tomasson and Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote. A native of Palo Alto, Jimison joined SF Ballet School as a Level 5 student in 2014. She advanced to Trainee in 2017, and performed the principal pas de deux in Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes during the School’s 2018 Student Showcase. Pointe magazine named Jimison one of 2019’s Stars of the Corps. 

Olivia Brothers is promoted to the corps de ballet after joining the Company as an apprentice for the 2021 Season. As an SF Ballet School Trainee, Brothers performed as one of the Butterflies in the Student Matinee performance of Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2020, and in Don Quixote (Dryad) and The Sleeping Beauty (Nymph) in 2019. She has also performed Snow and Flowers in Tomasson’s Nutcracker. A native of Palos Verdes Estates, California, Brothers won first place at Youth America Grand Prix San Francisco in 2017 as a member of the Marat Daukayev School, after which she joined SF Ballet School as a Level 7 student, moving to Level 8 in 2018, and joining the Trainee Program in 2019.  

Promotions/Level  
Jasmine Jimison/Soloist
Olivia Brothers/Corps de Ballet

New Apprentices  
Four SF Ballet School Trainees have been named apprentices for the 2022 Season: Teague Applegate, Juliana Bellissimo, Nicole Moyer, and Jamie Adele Stephens. As apprentices, dancers will take Company class and perform corps de ballet roles in SF Ballet productions.   

New Apprentices/Training   
Teague Applegate/San Francisco Ballet School 
Juliana Bellissimo/San Francisco Ballet School 
Nicole Moyer/San Francisco Ballet School
Jamie Adele Stephens/San Francisco Ballet School 
 

SAN FRANCISCO BALLET 2022 REPERTORY SEASON 
ARTISTS OF THE COMPANY   

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL CHOREOGRAPHER 
Helgi Tomasson 
 
PRINCIPAL DANCERS 

Dores André  Ulrik Birkkjaer  Max Cauthorn  Frances Chung  Sasha De Sola  Nikisha Fogo  Benjamin Freemantle

Mathilde Froustey   Angelo Greco  Tiit Helimets  Esteban Hernandez  Luke Ingham  Julian MacKay Misa Kuranaga  Wona Park

Aaron Robison  Jennifer Stahl   Yuan Yuan Tan  Sarah Van Patten  Joseph Walsh  Wei Wang  WanTing Zhao

PRINCIPAL CHARACTER DANCERS 

Ricardo Bustamante

Val Caniparoli

Anita Paciotti

SOLOISTS 

Cavan Conley  Diego Cruz  Daniel Deivison-Oliveira  Isabella DeVivo  Lucas Erni

Ellen Rose Hummel  Jasmine Jimison Madison Keesler  Steven Morse  Sasha Mukhamedov   Elizabeth Powell

Julia Rowe  Henry Sidford  Myles Thatcher  Lonnie Weeks  Hansuke Yamamoto

CORPS DE BALLET 

Kamryn Baldwin  Sean Bennett  Ludmila Bizalion  Samantha Bristow  Olivia Brothers Thamires Chuvas  Rubén Cítores  Estéban Cuadrado  Megan Amanda Ehrlich  Luca Ferrò  Max Föllmer Gabriela Gonzalez

Lleyton Ho  Anatalia Hordov   Blake Johnston  SunMin Lee  Elizabeth Mateer  Norika Matsuyama  Carmela Mayo  Swane Messaoudi  Davide Occhipinti   Lauren Parrott  Joshua Jack Price

Leili Rackow  Nathaniel Remez   Alexander Reneff-Olson  Jacob Seltzer  Natasha Sheehan John-Paul Simoens  Tyla Steinbach  Bianca Teixeira  Mingxuan Wang  Joseph Warton  Maggie Weirich   Adrian Zeisel

APPRENTICES 

Alexis Aiudi  Teague Applegate Juliana Bellissimo

Andris Kundzins  Nicole Moyer

Pemberley Ann Olson  Jamie Adele Stephens Alexis Valdes

BALLET MASTERS & ASSISTANTS TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 
Ricardo Bustamante 
Felipe Diaz 
 
BALLET MASTERS 
Tina LeBlanc 
Anita Paciotti 
Katita Waldo 
 
COMPANY TEACHERS 
Helgi Tomasson 
Patrick Armand 
Ricardo Bustamante 
Felipe Diaz 
Tina LeBlanc 

CHOREOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE 
Yuri Possokhov 

MUSIC DIRECTOR AND PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR 
Martin West