Helgi Tomasson’s 37-year reign as SF Ballet’s artistic director and principal choreographer will conclude at the end of the 2021–22 season, appropriately with a revival of his production of “Swan Lake.”
Helgi Tomasson and members of San Francisco Ballet at the conclusion of the last night’s performance in Iceland in 2016.
Tomasson, 79, had already decided to step down from S.F. Ballet when COVID-19 restrictions halted the season in March 2020, and he unexpectedly found more time for personal pursuits, such as reading books by authors from his native Iceland.
Tomasson found creative opportunity out of the crisis the pandemic brought when, during the company’s division of classes into pods, he conceived “Harmony,” set to music by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Premiering in April as part of this season’s Program 5, it is the last work Tomasson choreographed during his stewardship of S.F. Ballet.
“It took a lot of hard work, but it was my aim from the beginning to create something here that would be truly remarkable. I think with all the new works I have fostered, and getting incredible choreographers to come work with us, that has made the company, to quote others, the envy of the ballet world,” Tomasson says.
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