Trisha Brown Dance Company at Cal Performances: A Very Personal Review

By Emma Krasov An overtly controversial choreographer Trisha Brown is known for creating more than 100 dance pieces in 50 years. She is hi...

Swan Lake at Cal Performances: A Gift and a Promise of What to Come

  By Emma Krasov The opening of the Cal Performances’ 2012-2013 Dance season at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley mid-October came as a preciou...

Get Carried Away by Tango Buenos Aires

By Emma Krasov “Fire and Passion of Tango,” staged by a quarter century-old Argentinean company, Tango Buenos Aires, landed for a night at C...

Eifman Ballet Revolutionizes Russian Classic With Mixed Results

Onegin, staged by Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg and based on a classic poem by Alexander Pushkin and music by Tchaikovsky, premiered at C...

Pascal Rioult Athletic Dancers Express Ideas Through Motion

Like a fleeting comet, Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre sizzled at Cal Performances for two nights with two different programs last weekend. Sun...

Soledad Barrio Drives Cal Performances Audience Into Frenzy

A star of international significance, she brings along her own company, Noche Flamenca, and takes her sweet time arriving on stage in her g...

Kirov Ballet Graces Berkeley with its Starlight

The world famous Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet of St. Petersburg—the eternal bastion of classical dance—brought to Cal Performances a constellati...

Mark Morris Meets Sergei Prokofiev, or Love Is So Much More Fun To Make Than War

As was recently discovered by musicologist Simon Morrison, Prokofiev’s most famous ballet Romeo and Juliet, created in 1935 with the dramati...

Nina Ananiashvili Charms Cal Performances in Her Ballet’s West Coast Debut

The former Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina and a guest principal dancer for American Ballet Theatre, Nina Ananiashvili made a shooting-star a...

Moiseyev Dance Company Triumphant at Cal Performances

As electrifying and refined as ever, the famous Russian Folk Dance Ensemble performed to a constant ovation at Zellerbach Hall last weekend,...

The Moiseyev Dance Company Dazzles American Audiences on Its Celebratory Tour

The Moiseyev Dance Company returns to North America for a tour commemorating the life and work of Igor Moiseyev , who was a principal dancer...

The Monterey Jazz Fest Celebrates its 50th at Cal Performances

The Monterey Jazz Festival's 50th Anniversary Tour stops at Cal Performances on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 8 p.m. in Zellerbach Hall ...

Cal Performances Awashed in Sounds of Music

An amazing array of star musicians is lining up for winter stints at Cal Performances, notorious for seeking and finding the ultimate best i...

Mark Morris' The Hard Nut is Easy to Digest

As almost every year since its premiere in 1996, Mark Morris Dance Group's delightful "The Hard Nut"-- the "Nutcracker...

Countertenor David Daniels at Cal Performances

David Daniels , proclaimed one of the top ten trailblazers in classical music today, will sing a recital on January 13, 2008 at 3 p.m. in He...