“Ballet really chose me. I knew little about classical ballet and had no clue where this journey would take me," says @SFBallet 's principal dancer Wei Wang (@way8way ) reminiscing on his early start at @bda_china .
Click the link in our bio to read more on Wang's dance journey and experience as the first Chinese male principal dancer at the company.✨
📸: Wang in @william_forsythe_ Blake Works I. Photo by @e_tomasson , Courtesy @sfballet
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@way8way , making Basilio’s solo in Don Quixote look effortless…
Don Quixote is onstage Feb 26–Mar 6!
🎥 Wei Wang in Tomasson’s Don Quixote, music by @sfballetorch
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What a great opening night of our beautiful and breathtaking ballet-theatre ANGEL ISLAND 「天使島」at Herbst Theater in San Francisco, Bravi Tutti to the amazing 12 dancers of @oaklandballetcompany , 7 Asian-American choreographers, @delsolquartet , @voltisf 🙏❤️. One more show this afternoon 5/9! Join us💪
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Ready to unveil our beautiful and haunting ballet-theatre ANGEL ISLAND at Herbst Theater in San Francisco tonight 5/8 and tomorrow 5/9, with the amazing 12 dancers of @oaklandballetcompany 7 Asian-American choreographers, @delsolquartet@voltisf . Join us❤️
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“Angel Island is structured in chapters, with several choreographers each taking on a different part of the story. It has a cumulative feel, each section adding another perspective rather than trying to tell everything at once.
Wei’s contribution focuses on one woman detained on Angel Island Immigration Station for close to two years. That detail alone shifts the scale of the piece. Most detainees were held for weeks. Some longer. But nearly two years introduces something else entirely.
It also reframes the comparison people tend to reach for. This is not Alcatraz Island. There is no crime anchoring the narrative. Only a system that held people in place, often for reasons that now read as arbitrary, if not outright cruel.
That carries into how he’s structured his section. Instead of trying to take on the scale of the history, he narrows it. One woman, one case, one set of circumstances that still resist easy explanation. “These people were not criminals,” he says, almost as a correction, or maybe just a reminder.
It’s also where his role changes in a way that isn’t entirely straightforward. For years, he has been inside other people’s work, refining it, carrying it, giving it shape onstage. Here, he’s responsible for building the structure itself, working with younger dancers, asking them to arrive at something that can’t simply be demonstrated or corrected into place.
As he puts it, the goal is for people to see what they have now and not lose sight of what it took to get there.
There are only two performances at the Herbst Theatre, May 8-9, 2026.”
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May is the Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. To celebrate and remember, the @oaklandballetcompany is unveiling ANGEL ISLAND, a dance-theatre by 7 AAPI choreographers with music from my Angel Island Oratorio, teaming up with @delsolquartet and @voltisf . Please come join us for our two performances on May 8 and 9, and panel talk on May 5, Herbst Theatre, SF.
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Pass the mic challenge with the cast of Child’s Play by @weiwangsf
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Check us out April 30th-May 2nd. Tickets in bio!
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Backstage experience with Principal Dancer @way8way at the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker! What an amazing experience especially for my friends who saw this for the first time. As you’ll see, there are friends who are ballerinas and those who think they are ballerinas….
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Last night’s Countdown to Curtain with the @sfballet.ypc was such a special evening. I had the privilege of moderating an intimate panel with dancers and musicians from @sfballet , giving attendees a peek behind the curtain into the choreography, music, and artistic process made the season ahead.
We started with cocktails and conversation, then dove into an inspiring discussion with Principal Dancer @way8way , Soloist @juliarowekim , violinist Rebecca Jackson-Picht, and Principal Oboist Laura Griffiths.
To explore the full SFB season and find out even more about their performances, head to RedCurtainAddict.com. And to find out more about @sfballet.ypc visit their instagram linked here.
I look forward to seeing you in the audience!
