Performing arts
Friday, December 1, 2017
Raina J. Léon, James Cagney, and Josiah Luis Alderete
Reading - Literary | December 1 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Raina J. Léon, James Cagney, and Josiah Luis Alderete perform their poetry.
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Claire Chase, flute: Music from Density 2036
Performing Arts - Music | December 2 | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Claire Chase, Cal Performances
An exquisite instrumentalist who has been at the vanguard of a generation of musicians invigorating the music world with bold ideas and boundless energy, Claire Chase has been called a "staggering virtuoso with the assurance of a rock star" (Los Angeles Times). For her Density 2036 project, the flutist—a MacArthur Fellow and founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)—will commission... More >
Flutist Claire Chase performs Saturday, December 2, 2017 in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
"Who Wants To Be Mentally Stable?" Showcase: Golden Women Theater Production
Performing Arts - Theater | December 2 | 2-3:15 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Tilden Room
Student Performers, Golden Women
Privately funded
Golden Women presents its end of the semester showcase, featuring a series of individual student performances and a one act play written, directed and performed by students! The play, entitled "Who Wants To Be Mentally Stable?," is a comedy surrounding the difficulties of finding a therapist. Golden Women aims to increase opportunities for women in theatre, provide opportunities for women to take... More >
None
$5
Tickets go on sale November 25. Buy tickets online or or by emailing Purchase online or at the door at goldenwomenatberkeley@gmail.com
Claire Chase: Music from Density 2036
Performing Arts - Music | December 2 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Cal Performances presents the inimitable Claire Chase, flutist and MacArthur Fellow, a “staggering virtuoso who plays with the cocky assurance of a rock star” (Los Angeles Times).
Ragamala Dance Company: Written in Water
Performing Arts - Dance | December 2 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Ragamala Dance Company, Cal Performances
Minneapolis-based Ragamala Dance Company has been lauded for bringing "a visionary approach to an ancient art form" (Dance Magazine) in its stunning productions rooted in the South Indian Bharatanatyam classical dance form. Written in Water explores the cultural complexities of the modern world through the metaphor of the ancient Indian board game Snakes and Ladders, with a live music score... More >
$58
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Ragamala Dance Company performs Written in Water Saturday–Sunday, December 2–3, 2017 in the Zellerbach Playhouse.
Claire Chase: Music from Density 2036
Performing Arts - Music | December 2 | 8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Cal Performances presents the inimitable Claire Chase, flutist and MacArthur Fellow, a “staggering virtuoso who plays with the cocky assurance of a rock star” (Los Angeles Times).
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Simon O'Neill, tenor: Recital
Performing Arts - Music | December 3 | 3 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Simon O'Neill, Cal Performances
The rich, thunderous voice of Simon O'Neill, "the best heroic tenor to emerge over the last decade" (The Telegraph, London), has shaken the walls of every grand opera house in the world. A protégé of Plácido Domingo and principal artist with the Metropolitan Opera, O'Neill is perhaps best known in the title roles of Verdi's Otello and Wagner's Lohengrin, and as Siegmund in Die Walküre. This... More >
$46
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Simon O'Neill performs Sunday, December 3, 2017 in Hertz Hall.
Ragamala Dance Company: Written in Water
Performing Arts - Dance | December 3 | 3 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Ragamala Dance Company, Cal Performances
Minneapolis-based Ragamala Dance Company has been lauded for bringing "a visionary approach to an ancient art form" (Dance Magazine) in its stunning productions rooted in the South Indian Bharatanatyam classical dance form. Written in Water explores the cultural complexities of the modern world through the metaphor of the ancient Indian board game Snakes and Ladders, with a live music score... More >
$58
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Monday, December 4, 2017
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 4 | 3 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Mark Morris Dance Group performs The Hard Nut Friday–Sunday, December 15–24, 2017 in Zellerbach Hall.
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Magic Spells: A Weekly Performance Series Featuring Victoria Hanna and Hebrew Amulets from The Magnes Collection
Performing Arts - Other | October 24 – December 5, 2017 every Tuesday | 5:30-7 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Meet Victoria Hanna and watch as she develops MAGIC SPELLS, a new performance repertoire based on Hebrew amulets in The Magnes Collection.
This series is presented in conjunction with the UC Berkeley course, "Jewish Nightlife: Poetry, Music, and Ritual Performance from Renaissance Italy to Contemporary Israel" (Jewish 121-001, Music 139), taught by Francesco Spagnolo.
During her Fall 2017... More >
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Noon Concert: Holiday Choral Concert
Performing Arts - Music | December 6 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Featuring the University and Chamber Chourses
This is a popular concert, so please make plans to arrive early, as it is first come, first serve seating.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities, the Department of Music presents a series of free weekly concerts each semester in Hertz Hall. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts... More >
University Baroque Ensemble
Performing Arts - Music | December 6 | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Christine Brandes, director
Better with age:
Late works by masters of the Italian baroque
Works by Monteverdi, Vivaldi and Corelli
$16 General Admission, $12 non-UCB students, seniors, current/retired UCB faculty and staff, groups 10+, $5 UCB students
Buy tickets online or or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Lunch Poems: Rita Dove
Reading - Literary | December 7 | 12:10-12:50 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
Rita Dove
A poetry reading by Rita Dove.
(photo by Fred Viebahn)
Poetics of N(eg)ation: Articulating Refusal
Reading - Literary | December 7 | 4 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
At “Poetics of N(eg)ation: Articulating Refusal,” poets will explore what it means to articulate a kind of refusal that is urgently needed from communities who may not be part of the “national” imaginary. This event is an intimate reading delivered by each poet followed by the poets asking each other questions about their work and forming lines of affinities that undo one-way contact. This... More >
Friday, December 8, 2017
University Symphony Orchestra
Performing Arts - Music | December 8 – 9, 2017 every day | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
David Milnes, music director
Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 3
Stravinsky - Symphony in C
Dutilleux - Métaboles
Established in 1923, the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra is the oldest performing arts ensemble in the University of California system. Throughout its long history, the orchestra has provided students and other members of the campus community with the opportunity to expand their... More >
$20 General Admission, $15 non-UCB students, seniors, current/retired UCB faculty and staff, groups 10+, $5 UCB students
Buy tickets online or or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Camille A. Brown and Dancers: BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play
Performing Arts - Dance | December 8 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Camille A. Brown and Dancers, Cal Performances
Innovative choreographer Camille A. Brown's BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play draws on the games little girls play to tell a story of black female empowerment. Brown uses African-American vernacular forms—social dancing, Double Dutch, hand-clapping games, ring shout—to explore the self-discovery and playfulness of childhood in a work the New York Times calls "by turns, clever and tender." Brown, a 2016... More >
$54
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Camille A. Brown & Dancers' Fana Fraser and Beatrice Capote perform BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play Friday–Sunday, December 8–10, 2017 in the Zellerbach Playhouse.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Roundtable Reading: Dear Miss Karana by Eric Elliott
Reading - Literary | December 9 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Start reading this story of a girl who feels a special connection to the real-life heroine of Island of the Blue Dolphins, and pick up a free copy to keep reading at home.
Black Life: Tongo Eisen-Martin
Performing Arts - Other | December 9 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tongo Eisen-Martin, a movement worker, educator, and one of America’s most important and vital poets, performs his work.
University Symphony Orchestra
Performing Arts - Music | December 8 – 9, 2017 every day | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
David Milnes, music director
Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 3
Stravinsky - Symphony in C
Dutilleux - Métaboles
Established in 1923, the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra is the oldest performing arts ensemble in the University of California system. Throughout its long history, the orchestra has provided students and other members of the campus community with the opportunity to expand their... More >
$20 General Admission, $15 non-UCB students, seniors, current/retired UCB faculty and staff, groups 10+, $5 UCB students
Buy tickets online or or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Camille A. Brown and Dancers: BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play
Performing Arts - Dance | December 9 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Camille A. Brown and Dancers, Cal Performances
Innovative choreographer Camille A. Brown's BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play draws on the games little girls play to tell a story of black female empowerment. Brown uses African-American vernacular forms—social dancing, Double Dutch, hand-clapping games, ring shout—to explore the self-discovery and playfulness of childhood in a work the New York Times calls "by turns, clever and tender." Brown, a 2016... More >
$54
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Takács Quartet and Garrick Ohlsson, piano: Chamber Music
Performing Arts - Music | December 10 | 3 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Takács Quartet and Garrick Ohlsson, piano, Cal Performances
Each time the Takács Quartet walks on stage for Cal Performances, its four players invite Berkeley audiences to experience a new dimension of this superlative ensemble's musical artistry. Returning after last season's heroic cycle of the complete Beethoven quartets, the Takács welcomes commanding pianist Garrick Ohlsson for Brahms' inventive and richly contrapuntal Piano Quintet, plus the first... More >
$48 - 86
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Takács Quartet with Garrick Ohlsson performs Sunday, December 10, 2017 in Zellerbach Hall.
Camille A. Brown and Dancers: BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play
Performing Arts - Dance | December 10 | 3 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Camille A. Brown and Dancers, Cal Performances
Innovative choreographer Camille A. Brown's BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play draws on the games little girls play to tell a story of black female empowerment. Brown uses African-American vernacular forms—social dancing, Double Dutch, hand-clapping games, ring shout—to explore the self-discovery and playfulness of childhood in a work the New York Times calls "by turns, clever and tender." Brown, a 2016... More >
$54
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Monday, December 11, 2017
Magic Spells | A Final Meeting: With Victoria Hanna, Francesco Spagnolo and the Students in the UC Berkeley Course, “Jewish Nightlife”
Performing Arts - Music | December 11 | 12:30-2 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Join Schusterman Visiting Artist Victoria Hanna, Professor Francesco Spagnolo, and the students in his UC Berkeley course, Jewish Nightlife, for a final presentation of their work.
In the course of the Fall Semester, “Jewish Nightlife” presented students with an array of learning and performance opportunities. The class studied the connections between the ritual performance of Jewish texts... More >
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Berkeley New Music Project
Performing Arts - Music | December 11 | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall | Canceled
Eco Ensemble
David Milnes, director
David Milnes leads our resident professional new music ensemble in new works by UC Berkeley graduate student composers.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The Berkeley New Music Project is a group dedicated to the performance of new music by the graduate student composers in UC Berkeley’s Department of Music. Supported by funding from the Department of Music,... More >
Friday, December 15, 2017
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 15 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 16 | 2 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 16 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 17 | 3 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Thursday, December 21, 2017
The Hard Nut: Mark Morris Dance Group
Performing Arts - Dance | December 21 – 24, 2017 every day | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years. Set to Tchaikovsky's iconic Nutcracker score, this lavish production has been charming audiences for over 25 years, delivering a pitch-perfect... More >
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 21 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 21 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Friday, December 22, 2017
The Hard Nut: Mark Morris Dance Group
Performing Arts - Dance | December 21 – 24, 2017 every day | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years. Set to Tchaikovsky's iconic Nutcracker score, this lavish production has been charming audiences for over 25 years, delivering a pitch-perfect... More >
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 22 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Saturday, December 23, 2017
The Hard Nut: Mark Morris Dance Group
Performing Arts - Dance | December 21 – 24, 2017 every day | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years. Set to Tchaikovsky's iconic Nutcracker score, this lavish production has been charming audiences for over 25 years, delivering a pitch-perfect... More >
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 23 | 2 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 23 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Sunday, December 24, 2017
The Hard Nut: Mark Morris Dance Group
Performing Arts - Dance | December 21 – 24, 2017 every day | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years. Set to Tchaikovsky's iconic Nutcracker score, this lavish production has been charming audiences for over 25 years, delivering a pitch-perfect... More >
Mark Morris Dance Group Dance Residency: The Hard Nut
Performing Arts - Dance | December 24 | 3 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances
What holiday season would be complete without go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control family Christmas party? Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, "as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic and musically sensitive" (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky's... More >
$40 - 135
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
