The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is quintessential American dance, balancing new and traditional, embracing color, new movement, props and humor. Under new artistic director Robert Battle, the company has become particularly more contemporary, concentrating less on the Negro spirituals that defined its repertoire before him. However, this more contemporary Read More…
On Saturday, April 21, at Zellerbach Playhouse, the Berkeley Dance Project performed their “Beneath the Flesh” performance. Here is a snippet of the first piece, “Finding the Moon in the Dark Night Sky.” This piece is in honor of girls and women everywhere. Tianzong Jiang filmed this performance.
This year marks the 100th birthday of America’s traveling troubadour, a man literally born from dust and shaped by the land — a man named Woody Guthrie. In timely fashion, UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies premiered “Woody Guthrie’s American Song” this past Friday in what was Read More…
There’s something deeper to Avicii’s live sets. Between the pumping beats, the beautifully mixed electro bangers and the roar of the crowd, there is something there that makes you want to jump to your feet and dance. Last Thursday, Avicii’s Le7els tour blew through San Francisco at the Bill Graham Read More…
At noon Friday, hundreds of students were out on Upper Sproul to watch a Gangnam Style flashmob as participants jived to the hit song that exploded into popularity in the last few months. Read More…
