Performing arts

David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano

Performing Arts - Music | January 20 | 3-5 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall

Speaker/Performer:  David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano, Cal Performances

Sponsor:  Cal Performances

Program:
Beethoven/Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69
Brahms/Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
Mendelssohn/Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58

Tickets required:$68 (prices subject to change)

Ticket info:   Tickets go on sale August 7. Buy tickets online or by calling 5106429988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Performing Arts - Dance | January 20 | 3-5 p.m. |  Zellerbach Hall

Speaker/Performer:  Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Cal Performances

Sponsor:  Cal Performances

Program:
Program A (1/18 and 1/20)
Alejandro Cerrudo/Silent Ghost
William Forsythe/N.N.N.N.
Nacho Duato/Jardí Tancat
Crystal Pite/Grace Engine

Program B (1/19)
Emma Portner and Lil Buck/New Piece (music: Dev Hynes, with Third Coast Percussion) (Bay Area Premiere)

Tickets required:$30-68 (prices subject to change)

Ticket info:   Tickets go on sale August 7. Buy tickets online or by calling 5106429988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org

Full: Hālau O Keikialiʻi

Performing Arts - Dance | January 20 | 7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor:  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Kumu Hula Kawika Keikiali`I Alfiche and Hālau o Keikiali`I present an evening of live music, storytelling, and both ancient (Kahiko) and modern ('Auana) hula. The hula is a direct reflection of environment and in every dance there is a story. Come enjoy the stories and traditions of Hawaiian culture. “Always the dancers’ feet [connect] to the earth, their hips to the sea and their arms to...   More >

Noon Concert: Chamber Music

Performing Arts - Music | January 23 | 12 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall

Sponsor:  Department of Music

Students from the music department performing works from the chamber music literature.

Commencing its 67th season, the Noon Concert series features the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts are very popular and well attended by those on campus and in the wider community. Traditionally on Wednesdays and Fridays, each concert begins...   More >

Complimentary Tickets to Kronos Quartet's SchoolTime concert on Thu, Jan 24 at 11am Zellerbach Hall and pre-show reception

Performing Arts - Music | January 24 | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. |  Zellerbach Hall

Speaker/Performer:  Kronos Quartet SchoolTime performance, Cal Performances

Sponsor:  Cal Performances

Having reinvented the string quartet over years of bold musical adventures, Kronos is keying up the next generation of musical innovators with Fifty for the Future, an ambitious program that commissions new music from a diverse group of international composers. Joining Kronos on stage for this performance are chamber ensembles from The Crowden School and Oakland School for the Arts.

Attendance restrictions:  Check in with staff member outside box office. Children must be accompanied by an adult. No food or drink in the theater.

RSVP recommended

RSVP info:   RSVP online or or by emailing Rica Anderson at eduprograms@calperformances.org by January 24.

Kronos Quartet: Fifty for the Future

Performing Arts - Music | January 25 | 8-10 p.m. |  Zellerbach Hall

Speaker/Performer:  Kronos Quartet, Cal Performances

Sponsor:  Cal Performances

After 45 years spent re-inventing the string quartet, Kronos is committing to the next generation of musical innovators, with Fifty for the Future. The ambitious and much-lauded commissioning initiative returns to Berkeley, where Cal Performances is among the project’s legacy partners, with a program of new works by a diverse international cohort of composers.

Tickets required:$48-68 (prices subject to change)

Ticket info:   Tickets go on sale August 7. Buy tickets online or by calling 5106429988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org

Black Life: We.Here.Now—She Lives

Performing Arts - Other | January 26 | 7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor:  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The We.Here.Now. performance series aims to highlight the embodied and internalized trauma of white supremacy enacted on black bodies and social structures, as well as black insistence on surviving and thriving in spite of it. This newest installment, by EarthChild with Keisha Turner in collaboration with Amber Julian and Alexa Burrell, is an inquiry into the complex layers of celebration, grief,...   More >