The 2025 Season defines the future of ballet, with a nod to innovation and a reverence for tradition. Onstage now. The mission of San Francisco Ballet is to share our joy of dance with the widest possible audience in our community and around the globe and to provide the highest caliber of dance training in our School. We seek to enhance our position as one of the world's finest dance companies through our vitality, innovativeness, and diversity and through our uncompromising commitment to artistic excellence based in the classical ballet tradition. As the fist professional ballet company in the country (founded in 1933), San Francisco Ballet is committed both to preserving the masterpieces of the past and providing audiences with the excitement of world premiere performances.