David E. MorenoDanceBerkeley,
Pavel Zustiak and his Palisssimo Company made its West coast première of “Custodians of Beauty” at Zellerbach’s Playhouse this week, presenting a visually saturating and multisensory experience. Both imagery and choreographic language are streamlined and minimal, weaving together a series ...
Michael McDonaghMusicBerkeley,
Politics is everywhere these days. Make one "false" step and you're tarred and feathered without getting even a nanosecond to defend yourself. Jordi Savall and company stepped into this corrosive environment like a breath of fresh air with their ...
Michael McDonaghMusicBerkeley,
What do we expect when we go to hear two repertory pieces played live, and is that expectation heightened when the musicians in Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are Israeli and Arab? Do their complex histories and conflicting narratives affect ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
Often novels don’t translate well to the stage or screen, but Jonathan Safran Foer’s acclaimed 2002 debut novel “Everything is Illuminated” is a notable exception. It first became a well-reviewed, small-scale movie by Liev Schreiber starring Elijah Wood in 2005, ...
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureBerkeley,
The interrelationship between art and science in the first half of the 20th century is fascinatingly explored in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s new exhibition about the vital, but little known Dimensionism ...
Writer and Performer of Pike Street,
A new play at the Berkeley Rep.
Toba SingerFeaturesBerkeley,
News of Hurricane Sandy’s projected landfall gives New Yorkers little time to prepare, but whatever the mysteries of nature, certain New Yorkers, the poor, and working class, mostly members of oppressed nationalities, mostly the women among them, know one ...
David E. MorenoDanceBerkeley,
Anyone fortunate enough to walk into Zellerbach Hall this weekend will not be surprised to learn that choreographer Sasha Waltz is the daughter of an architect. Everything about “Körper” (German for “bodies”) is about architecture--that designed by humans and ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
“Fairview,” Jackie Sibblies Drury’s brilliant new play, excellently directed by Sarah Benson, illustrates the power of theater to make an audience think, even squirm, during the performance, while its deep impression lingers on afterward.
Developed at the Rep’s ...
David E. MorenoDanceBerkeley,
“ I’d love to turn you on…”
“Pepperland,” Mark Morris’ homage to the Beatles 50th anniversary of “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, is like falling inside a bubble gum machine where the colors are dayglo, the sugar addictive, ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
There are only a few more weeks left to see Aurora Theatre Company’s intense and moving production of “Detroit ’67,” by the award-winning playwright, Dominique Morisseau (book writer of “Ain’t Too Proud”). It’s a creative and personalized exploration of the ...
