“Please locate the nearest emergency,” intoned the voice on loudspeaker, sparking the first of many chuckles from Saturday night’s audience at Cal Performances in Berkeley, at the opening of Mark Morris’ latest adventure in opera. Morris gets Handel like no one else gets him: he crafted a towering …
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It was a bittersweet evening at Zellerbach Hall on Friday night with the Trey McIntyre Project returning to Cal Performances at Berkeley as part of their farewell tour. The ten-year-old, Boise-based company will be dismantled as McIntyre continues to explore …
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Eva Yerbabuena, the gypsy queen of the flamenco dance world, is in the process of renovating her art form, as demonstrated by Lluvia (‘Rain’), Ballet Flamenco’s evening- length performance which kicked off Cal Performances’ Focus on Flamenco series at Zellerbach
Graham disciples from all over the Bay Area flocked to Zellerbach Hall on Friday night to celebrate the return of the Martha Graham Dance Company to Cal Performances, after a twenty-five year absence. In her introductory speech, Artistic Director Janet …
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1913 was an infamous year in the history of music and dance, the year that Stravinsky and Nijinsky unleashed Le Sacre du Printemps on an unsuspecting Parisian audience, provoking a riot. But it was also the year that the world went tango mad. All of Europe was dancing it, although …
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