Between Splendor and Substance: Navigating the Depths of Possokhov’s Anna Karenina Ballet Dorothy Eck March 22, 2024 Classical, Ballet, dance Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina pirouetted and pliéd gracefully across the stage at Zellerbach Auditorium this Saturday, in a ballet adaptation choreographed by Yuri Posshokhov. The talented dancers of the Joffr...
Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock team up to dazzle Zellerbach Hall Nikos Zarikos March 31, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Audiences at Cal Performances on Thursday, March 19 witnessed two seminal jazz composers, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, produce an experimental showcase testament to their illustrious and diverse careers as s...
The Nile Project inspires longevity and unification Nikos Zarikos February 25, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews The Nile Project was conceived over a few beers at an Uptown Oakland café by two Bay Area locals: ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis from Egypt, and Meklit Hadero from Ethiopia. The vision served a dual purpos...
The Nile Project to bridge distances with residency events in Berkeley Joanna Jiang February 12, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, News 1 Comment photo by Nour Mohamed “For thousands of years Egyptian farmers irrigated by simple diversions from the Nile and nothing went badly wrong;” writes American environmentalist Marc Reisner in his best-known...
The Australian Ballet and Berkeley Symphony deliver transformative Swan Lake at Zellerbach Hall Austin Chi October 25, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Duality is everywhere: Adam and Eve, light and dark, land and sea, good and evil... the list goes on. With that in mind, we ventured into The Australian Ballet’s performance of Swan Lake and the Berkele...
