Ballet on Fire

City Ballet offers strength and artistic quality usually reserved for larger big-city companies.

Kris Eitland, SanDiego.com Dance Critic

Nobody wanted Spartacus Pas de Deux to end, except those with heart conditions.

Kris Eitland, SanDiego.com Dance Critic

The Nutcracker

The ensemble dances, Kingdom of Snow and Waltz of the Flowers, again showed the fine hand behind the scenes; well rehearsed and together - well beyond the stage of "no mistakes" - every head, every arm, line of torso, line and height of leg - were presented as one body.

Anjuli Bai, ballet.co.uk Dance Critic

City Ballet offered a polished rendition... with stunning performances by Janica Smith as the Sugar Plum Fairy and Ariana Samuelsson as the Rose.

Kris Eitland, SanDiego.com Dance Critic

Carmina Burana and La Bayadere

[T]he Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadere and a new setting of Carmina Burana presented Sunday at the Birch North Park Theatre were simple, sophisticated and sexy.

Kris Eitland, SanDiego.com Dance Critic

[T]he corps de ballet of this company has much upon which to congratulate itself.

Anjuli Bai, ballet.co.uk Dance Critic

Don Quixote

City Ballet of San Diego, celebrating the close of its fifteenth season as it fulfills the hopes and plans of its founders, Steven and Elizabeth Wistrich; is performing one full length classical ballet after another as well as the works of the foremost choreographers of our time such as Balanchine.  Straddling these two worlds - closely allied but requiring different approaches - is necessary if one wishes to be counted among classical ballet companies of worth and note.  City Ballet has been more than successful thus far.

Anjuli Bai, ballet.co.uk Dance Critic