Learn what's new in DH at UC Berkeley in this series of lightning talks.

A panel discussion with Professors Timothy R. Tangherlini and Lisa Wymore centering on computation in dance choreography.

Jazz vocalist Jazzmeia Horn took first place in the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition and then won the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition, the highest accolade available to a young jazz musician. Horn’s 2017 debut album, A Social Call, landed in Billboard’s jazz Top 10. Her follow-up release, Love and Liberation, was nominated for a 2020 Grammy and...

For five decades, the dancers and acrobats of Pilobolus have been telling otherworldly stories through the strength and precision of their bodies, enhanced by magical stage effects. This 50th anniversary celebration includes the vintage classic Untitled, the high-voltage Megawatt, and signature shadow works.

For five decades, the dancers and acrobats of Pilobolus have been telling otherworldly stories through the strength and precision of their bodies, enhanced by magical stage effects. This 50th anniversary celebration includes the vintage classic Untitled, the high-voltage Megawatt, and signature shadow works.

In this hilarious, irreverent, and brutally honest remix of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, an aspiring director rebels against the art of his mother’s generation while a young actor vies with an aging celebrity for the attention of an acclaimed writer. Utilizing multiple performative lenses, the play examines questions of art, love, loss, and the eternal (and elusive) pursuit of happiness.

Choreographer Kathryn Roszak presents recent ballet works by local women choreographers, featuring Smuin Ballet, Berkeley Ballet Theater, Diablo Ballet, and Danse Lumière, in this two-part series in April and May. Some of the performances will be videotaped on site at BAMPFA, and the creators will join Roszak for in-depth conversations. In this evolving context, artist Zeph Fishlyn takes you...

Program: Handel/Tamerlano, HWV 18

As part of Cal Performances’ 2020/21 Illuminations—“Music and the Mind” programming, soprano Renée Fleming presents a combination discussion-performance as part of her ongoing creative collaborations with researchers, scholars, and scientists. Fleming has made the relationship between music and the human brain the subject of much of her recent work, and in 2020 launched a live-streamed...

American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton is increasingly recognized for how she uses her powerful voice offstage—lifting up women, LGBTQ+ people, and marginalized communities through her social media presence and addressing topics such as body positivity, diet culture, and social justice issues. Here she joins with longtime friend and collaborator Jake Heggie for the West Coast premiere of a new work...