As a San Franciscan myself, I can wholeheartedly vouch for just how unique our city — and the San Francisco Ballet — truly is. When I asked Jennifer Stahl, who has been with the company for 13 years including one year of school with them, what she loved most about the SF Ballet, her enthusiasm for the company was tangible.
"I love the variety of what we do, we have such an amazing spectrum of work form very classical, neo-classical, contemporary. [I love] the different artists that we get to work with, whether it's the choreographers, or the musicians, or costume designers, or set designers. It's just a really eclectic, amazing, and diverse group of people we get to work with here. I feel like our company represents San Francisco really well too. With [upcoming series] Unbound Live, there's just tons of innovation in one festival, so I feel like we're really the city's 'home team' ballet.
And as for where she gets her inspiration and motivation to dance?
"I like to think about what I'm working toward, why I'm there and on stage, and I think ballet is such an amazing art form. It's beautiful to go on stage knowing how it can affect people and what people can take from a show. That's really meaningful to me."
