Bruce Sansom

Bruce Edward Sansom (born September 1963) is a British former ballet dancer, and assistant artistic director and ballet master at San Francisco Ballet.

Bruce Sansom was born in September 1963 in Newbury, trained at the Royal Ballet School, and joined the Royal Ballet in 1982, following performances as Colas in La Fille mal gardée at the Royal Ballet School's Annual Performance in 1981, and a solo in Here We Come in 1982. He became a principal dancer in 1987. He retired from dancing in 2000.

In his early years with the Royal Ballet Sansom danced small roles such as a cavalier in The Sleeping Beauty, a cast member in Dances of Albion: Dark Night Glad Day and Voluntaries, a Mountaineer in Façade, Sailor Boy in Enigma Variations, Mandolin Dance in Romeo and Juliet and a soldier in the premiere of Different Drummer. He then progressed to more prominent roles such as Colas in La Fille mal gardée, Oberon in The Dream and a cast member in Symphonic Variations as well as participating in the premieres of Number Three, Half the House and Galanteries.

In 2006, he was appointed as director of London's Central School of Ballet, but after three and a half years in post, returned in July 2009 to San Francisco Ballet as Ballet Master and Assistant to the Artistic Director. He also appeared in the 1985 television broadcast of The Nutcracker, and the television programme Bintley's Mozart (the ballet Galanteries) in 1987, both on the BBC.