Elizabeth Wistrich, our Resident Choreographer, is an accomplished, award-winning choreographer with over 60 ballets in her repertoire ranging from short pieces to full-length works, from contemporary to classical. We proudly offer a full season of concerts at our home theater, the historical Spreckels Theatre, as well as education and community programs, all devoted to the advancement of ballet as a major art form in San Diego.

We at City Ballet of San Diego commit ourselves to the same high standards for performances, artistic achievement and ballet education as other renowned ballet companies throughout the world. And as the major presenter of George Balanchine ballet in Southern California we now have 19 of his ballets in our repertoire.

City Ballet’s education programs reach over 10,000 school children annually offering in-theater performances and all-school assemblies. All of City Ballet’s education programs such as our “Discover a Dancer” program, an in-depth residency program for at risk youth, are funded in part by generous donations to City Ballet’s Education Fund.

Since 1995, City Ballet has hosted a three-week Summer Intensive program attracting dancers from across the United States and foreign countries to study with such notable dance artists as Gelsey Kirkland, David Howard, Julie Kent and Paloma Herrera.