Dance Scholar Mary Wood Interviews San Francisco Ballet Executive Director, Glenn McCoy

Mary Wood interviews Ballet School Administrative Manager and former Company dancer Jim Sohm

Former Principal Dancer Muriel Maffre interviews Soloist Garrett Anderson.

Dance critic, historian, professor, and author Lynn Garafola talks about ballet's current period of transition, her fondest memories of dance, and the job of the dance critic. She advises even newcomers to dance to trust their instincts about what they like or don't like in a performance.

Tina LeBlanc, a principal dancer with SF Ballet since 1992, has balanced a challenging and eminently successful career with raising two children. She talks about her involvement with dance beyond performing onstage, her relationships with younger dancers, and bringing her two young sons to see the ballet.

Principal Dancer Pascal Molat cites Michael Jackson as his first dance inspiration. Hear more about what Molat has done since taking up breakdancing in the 1980s and how he has met the challenges of being a professional ballet dancer for more than 10 years.

Principal Dancer Molly Smolen’s professional career started when she was 14. She talks to Charles McNeal about leaving home at such a young age, performing with fellow Principal Dancer and husband Tiit Helimets, and returning to the U.S. after seven years abroad.

Principal Dancer Joan Boada made a risky decision in fleeing his native Cuba to dance in countries around the world, and finally the United States. In this Meet the Artist Interview, hear more about that, his training regimen, and how he ended up with eight stitches in his head after playing Albrecht in Giselle.

San Francisco Ballet Soloist Rory Hohenstein talks about the gutsy move he made to become a member of the Company, the physical demands of being a professional dancer, and his brush with celebrity as the subject of a children's book-about dance, of course.

After staging Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free for San Francisco Ballet, Jean-Pierre Frohlich talks about what is involved in preserving the legacy of this legendary choreographer as a member of the Robbins Rights Trust.