Kristin Long - San Francisco Ballet

Altoona, Pennsylvania native Kristin Long was named Apprentice at the San Francisco Ballet in 1989 and joined the professional company in 1990. She was promoted to Soloist in 1992, and to Principal Dancer in 1999.

She has performed the following roles for San Francisco Ballet Company: Giselle and pas de cinq in Giselle, Enchanted Princess (Bluebird pas de deux) in The Sleeping Beauty, Pas de trois and Neopolitan in Swan Lake, Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, Nikiya and first and third variation in La Bayadère, Act II, Solo girl in Raymonda, Act III, La Sylphide, Bianca in Othello, French principal in Gala Performance, Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, and Butterfly in Nutcracker, Created pas de deux Soirées Musicales, pas de deux from William Tell, pas de deux in Spring section of Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons), principal in Prism, principal in "Haffner" Symphony, soloist in Handel a Celebration, Ballet d'Isoline, Con Brio, pas de deux in Meistens Mozart, Quartette, Criss-Cross, Second movement principal in Western Symphony, third movement principal in Symphony in C, principal in Who Cares?, Ballo della Regina, Theme and Variations, Tarantella, Russian principal in Serenade, Third Movement principal in Symphony in Three Movements, principal in “Rubies”,Created principal role in third movement of The Dance House, The "Wanderer" Fantasy, The Sons of Horus and Job's daughter-in-law in Job, Principal role of allegro woman in El Grito (The Cry) and Red Girl in Celts, Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes, Pacific, Maelstrom, Sandpaper Ballet, and A Garden, Principal in Airs de Ballet, principal in Norwegian Moods, and Variations de Ballet, Gumbo Ya-Ya, “Pennsylvania Polka” in Company B, Aquilarco, Death of a Moth, Seeing Stars, Pulcinella, Connotations, and Lambarena, Pas de deux from Flower Festival at Genzano and Napoli, Dreams of Harmony, Tagore, Yellow in Dances at a Gathering, Interplay, Fanfare, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, La Pavane Rouge, Sergeant Early’s Dream, Continuum.

She received the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Ensemble Performance in William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude during the 2001 Repertory Season, the San Francisco Ballet School Endowment Foundation Rosalie Hellman Memorial Scholarship and the Princess Grace Foundation Award, 1990.