The Butterfly Lovers – one of those hybrid East-meets-West story ballets meant to showcase Chinese command of classical Western technique while celebrating a traditional Chinese theme – blew into Berkeley on a cloud of garishly colored butterfly tutus, courtesy of Shanghai Ballet at Cal Performances. This conventional tale of …
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Leigh Donlan reports from Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley:
It was a much anticipated return. Nederlands Dans Theater at Cal Performances in U.C. Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall gave us two West Coast premières, Sehnsucht and Schmetterling, both choreographed by Paul Lightfoot and Sol León. This pair has had enormous shoes to …
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Transcript of conversation on the way out of Hertz Hall at the end of Cal Performances’ Wednesday night presentation of the Mark Morris Dance Group that marked the opening of the exuberantly named Ojai North! Festival:
Carla: I hope you know the way back to the car. We …
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