Bruce Sansom is a British former ballet dancer, and assistant artistic director and ballet master at San Francisco Ballet.Bruce Sansom trained at the Royal Ballet School, and joined the Royal Ballet in 1982, becoming a principal dancer in 1987. He reitred from dancing in 2000.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.