San Francisco Ballet in Tomasson’s “Giselle.” Courtesy Erik Tomasson.

San Francisco Ballet’s 90th season continues this month with the return of  Helgi Tomasson’s “Giselle” for the first time since 2015.

The 10 performances will run from Feb. 24 through March 5.

SF Ballet, America’s oldest ballet company, first presented “Giselle” in 1947. The version choreographed by Tomasson, the company’s longtime artistic director before retiring during the pandemic, was first staged in 1999.

This ballet holds a special place for current SF Ballet Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, who most recently danced Akram Kahn’s “Giselle” last year.

“The whole Act 2 is a work of art like no other—the spirituality of it,” Rojo said, in a written statement, about the character’s transformation from human to Willi. “Very rarely, as a human body made of flesh, is a performer asked to inhabit the uninhabitable.”

Tomasson danced the role of character Albrecht in four productions of “Giselle” with four companies before creating his own version, which expands Albrecht’s dance sections and adds a first act solo to choreography by Marius Petipa, Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli.

“Giselle” first premiered at Paris Opera Ballet in 1841 and is considered one of the most significant classical story ballets. The score is by Adolphe Adam, who also composed “Le Corsaire.” Tomasson’s version includes scenic, costume and lighting design by Danish artist Mikael Melbye.

Tickets start at $29 and are available at SF Ballet’s website or by calling 415-865-2000 Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

After “Giselle,” the season will continue with “The Colors of Dance” (March 14 to 19), Christopher Wheeldon’s “Cinderella” (March 31 to April 8) and Tomasson’s “Romeo & Juliet” (April 21 to 30).