The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

For reasons unfathomable to me, Cal Performances persists in 8:00 start times most evenings, which means that, no matter how enticing their...

The Cal Performances season opened this week with the annual visit of the Mark Morris Dance Group , in a revival of Morris’s 1989 classic, ...

The Mark Morris Dance Group made its annual visit to Zellerbach Hall this week, under the aegis of Cal Performances , so I made my usual vi...

This is mostly a New York month, since like all the cool kids I’m going to the Met to see From the House of the Dead . This will be my firs...

Mark Morris brought two west coast premieres to Berkeley this week, along with a revival of V. I was at the Saturday performance. Visitation...

Things I'm either seeing or wish I could see this month: Coming right up on September 9, check out the Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble at ...

And here’s a special St Valentine’s Day half-price heart-shaped box of links for my readers, starting with some hilarity from the Onion. I h...

Cal Performances usually makes its announcement of the upcoming season in late April, but here’s an exciting preview to help make up for dis...

I spent two evenings last week at Mozart Dances, because I knew anything by Mark Morris would be worth seeing at least twice. Last year’s wo...

As we get older, most dance becomes a form of nostalgia. Not only are dancers, by the nature of what they do and why they do it, generally y...

As part of my Nathan Gunn tour of America, I am going to Houston in a month for L'Incoronazione di Poppea (with an Astros/Cardinals game...