S.F. Ballet dancer, Stanford student: A young artist’s balancing act

San Francisco Ballet dancer Lleyton Ho didn’t have to use much imagination to play a frantic university student studying anatomy with Victor Frankenstein.

For the company’s spring production of “Frankenstein,” a modern ballet adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley novel, the stage at the War Memorial Opera House was transformed into an old-time operating theater. Ho was one of the “the students on the side freaking out,” he said, as their professor, played by another dancer, inserted probes...