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We believethe performing arts can connect us across allkinds of real and imaginary divides, allowingus to discover the values, concerns, andaspirations we all have in common. We inviteyou to join us for what promises to be athrilling 2017/18 Season.SPECIAL EVENTGustavo Dudamel ConductsNational Youth Orchestra ofVenezuela at the GreekThu, Sept 21, 8pm, GTPROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5SELECTIONS OF MUSIC OF THE AMERICASTo witness charismatic conductor Gustavo Dudamelwith the radiant musicians of the National YouthOrchestra of Venezuela is to experience firsthandthe power of music to transform. The orchestra’smembers are products of Venezuela’s world-famous El Sistema music education program, andas musicians they represent the highest standardsof excellence, bolstered by a contagious sense ofyouthful optimism. The program is split betweenProkofiev’s rousing Fifth Symphony and musicfrom Dudamel’s celebrated Fiesta project, featuringdelightful short works by a selection of great Northand South American composers.Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org.

September MATT GROENING AND LYNDA BARRYReggie Wilson/Fist and Heel OctoberPerformance Group Matt Groening andMoses(es) Lynda BarrySat, Sept 23, 8pm Love, Hate & Comics—Sun, Sept 24, 3pm, ZH The Friendship That Would Not DieAward-winning choreographer Reggie Wilsonmakes rich, sensual, complex dances that vibrate Sat, Oct 7, 8pm, ZHwith the layered histories of the African diaspora. Matt Groening and Lynda Barry met at EvergreenHis evening-length Moses(es) is inspired by Zora College when he was editing the school paperNeale Hurston’s vernacular retelling of the biblical and she was an aspiring comics artist. A lifetimeMoses story and combines his own experiences later, the creator of The Simpsons, the animatedtraveling to North Africa to understand the sitcom that is now the longest-running scriptedmigration of Africans with extensive research into show in TV history, is still best buds with hisblack culture, movement, and spiritual traditions. “biggest inspiration,” the respected cartoonist andThe result is a powerful investigation of the nature author of Ernie Pook’s Comeek fame. Groeningof leadership—who leads? who follows?—in our and Barry reminisce about 40 years of friendshipcontemporary culture. and creativity, aided by a homey and hilariousBerkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org. slideshow of photos and drawings. An audience Q&A follows their talk.Lila Downs ODC/DanceSat, Sept 30, 8pm, ZHAn astonishingly gifted vocalist with a classically boulders and bonestrained three-octave range, and an arrestingsongwriter who tells poignant stories about love, Brenda Way & KT Nelson, choreographersdeath, loss, and betrayal, Lila Downs is a genre unto Zoë Keating, composer and celloherself. Raised in Minnesota and Oaxaca, Downs Andy Goldsworthy, landscape artistsings of a Pan-American social consciousness in Wed, Oct 11, 8pm, ZHher rousing performances, drawing on folk and Come give San Francisco’s own ODC/Dance aranchera music of Mexico and South America, and warm Berkeley send-off as the acclaimed modernAmerican folk, jazz, blues, and hip-hop—blending dance group departs for its headlining appearanceirreverent and fun themes with serious social in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Waveand political concerns in a distinctive style the Festival. boulders and bones, “a colossal triumphWashington Post has called “cantina classical.” of the imagination” (The Huffington Post), traces the shifting light, changing landscape, and ODC/DANCE raw natural materials of an Andy Goldsworthy installation and transforms these images into an exploration of the process of creation. Co- choreographed by ODC artistic directors Brenda Way and KT Nelson, the movement is set to a driving electro-acoustic score composed and performed live by cellist Zoë Keating. 1

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Théâtre de la Ville, Paris Chicago Symphony Orchestra State of Siege Riccardo Muti, conductor By Albert Camus Fri–Sun, Oct 13–15, ZH Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, director Sat, Oct 21, 8pm FRI, 8PM Sun, Oct 22, 3pm, ZH The remarkable troupe of Paris’ Théâtre de la Ville ROSSINI Overture from William Tell returns to Berkeley after the smash success of its ELIZABETH 2014 performance of Pirandello’s Six Characters OGONEK All These Lighted Things in Search of an Author. Again under the inspired (West Coast Premiere) direction of Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, the BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4, Romantic company visits with a new production based on Albert Camus’ fantastical yet frightening political SAT, 8PM allegory about the necessity of resistance in the face of authoritarianism. SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, Unfinished Performed in French, with English supertitles. MOZART Clarinet Concerto Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org. Stephen Williamson, clarinet SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2 Olli Mustonen, piano SUN, 3PM Sun, Oct 22, 3pm, HH SCHUMANN Kinderszenen, Op. 15 BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Symphony No. 2 Op. 2, No. 2 RODION A special chemistry exists between the Chicago SHCHEDRIN Notebook for Young People Symphony Orchestra and its director, the PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, magnificent Italian conductor and “master Op. 83, Stalingrad of musical drama” (The New York Times), A true Renaissance man who often appears as Riccardo Muti. Orchestra and maestro visit conductor, composer, and pianist in the same with three programs that underscore their deep concert, Olli Mustonen channels all the breadth fluency and interpretive clarity in a wide range of his musical insight and experience into his of repertoire, from the sparkling classicism of exuberant solo recitals. Mustonen lends his vivid the first Viennese School, to weighty Austro- and balanced touch to lighter works by Schumann German Romanticism, to a brand new work by and Shchedrin, balanced by Beethoven’s a living composer. Highlights include Bruckner’s Second Piano Sonata and Prokofiev’s dense breathtaking Romantic Symphony; Schumann’s and tumultuous Stalingrad Sonata. restless, animated Second Symphony; and a Major support provided by Brahms double feature of Symphonies Nos. 2 The Bernard Osher Foundation. and 3 on the final day of the residency. Principal clarinetist Stephen Williamson is featured in Garrison Keillor Mozart’s beloved Clarinet Concerto, a gem of the repertoire; and the orchestra plays a new work by Just Passing Through composer-in-residence Elizabeth Ogonek. Patron Sponsors: Nadine Tang Mon, Oct 23, 8pm, ZH and Bruce Smith “You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories”—a single line from one of Garrison Keillor’s novels is a fitting introduction to the dry wit and folksy charisma of its author. The beloved radio personality and former host of NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion (for more than 40 years!), Keillor holds court with his signature blend of self-deprecating humor and homespun wisdom, sharing anecdotes about life in the fictional Midwestern hamlet of Lake Wobegon. GARRISON KEILLOR2

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DORRANCE DANCE Korean National Gugak Center CreativeDorrance Dance Traditional OrchestraFri, Oct 27, 8pm, ZH Traditional Korean CourtMICHELLE and Folk MusicDORRANCE Three to One (music: Aphex Twin and Thom Yorke) Sat, Oct 28, 8pm, ZH Myelination The flagship orchestra of Korea’s centuries-old (Cal Performances Co-Commission) National Gugak Center, this virtuosic 55-member (music: Gregory Richardson ensemble continues its Berkeley residency with a and Donovan Dorrance) performance of traditional Korean court and folk Jungle Blues music. The term “gugak” translates as “national (music: Branford Marsalis) music,” and the orchestra is responsible forThis is not your father’s tap dance routine! A preserving ancient musical traditions, as well asMacArthur and Alpert Award fellow, choreographer developing contemporary works for performance.and tap dancer Michelle Dorrance is celebrated for The refined and elegant court music comes fromconnecting tap’s history to contemporary urban more than 1,000 years of development in theculture and infusing the art form with theatricality rituals, banquets, and ceremonies of the Koreanand humor. Dorrance and her company perform royal court. The folk music reflects the daily livesa new, extended version—co-commissioned by of the Korean people, with regional characteristicsCal Performances—of her acclaimed Myelination, and unique performance styles.featuring original live music; the rarely seen, BessieAward-winning Three to One; and a revival of Anssi Karttunen, cellothe whimsical Jungle Blues, in a program that Nicolas Hodges, pianoconnects tap back to its roots in jazz and jumpblues, and forward to the cadences of hip-hop and Sun, Oct 29, 3pm, HHindie rock. “Dorrance... pushes the boundaries oftap while exposing its true nature: that it is music” ASHKAN Foldings (US Premiere)(The New York Times). BEHZADI Korean National Gugak BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major,Center Creative Op. 102, No. 2Traditional Orchestra PASCALNew works by Edmund Campion, DUSAPIN Slackline (US Premiere,Shih-Hui Chen, David Evan Jones, Cal Performances Co-Commission)Hi Kyung Kim, George Lewis,Chinary Ung, and Geon Yong Lee SEANSat, Oct 28, 3pm, ZH SHEPHERD Aquaria (World Premiere,The Creative Traditional Orchestra of Korea’s Cal Performances Co-Commission)National Gugak Center begins its two-concertBerkeley residency with the Bay Area premieres BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 2of newly commissioned works by an international in F Major, Op. 99cohort of contemporary composers: Berkeleymusic professor Edmund Campion, Shih- Two heroes of new music—Finnish cellist AnssiHui Chen of Rice University, George Lewis of Karttunen, who has performed more than 160Columbia University, David Evan Jones and world premieres, and British pianist NicolasHi Kyung Kim of UC Santa Cruz, Chinary Ung Hodges, long associated with the works ofof UC San Diego, and the esteemed Korean Elliott Carter, Thomas Adès, and Harrisoncomposer Geon Yong Lee. Each will contribute Birtwistle—make their Cal Performances debutnew repertoire for this very special collaboration as a duo. Brahms’ grand Sonata in F Major andbetween Western composers and the world’s Beethoven’s visionary D-Major Cello Sonataleading Korean music orchestra. are paired with new works by two pace-setting young composers: American Sean Shepherd and Iranian-born Ashkan Behzadi; plus the US premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Slackline. Karttunen observes, “[With Slackline]…the cello-piano repertoire now has a new masterpiece, almost Mahlerian in its scale.” ANSSI KARTTUNEN 5

November Les Arts Florissants Mariinsky Orchestra William Christie, director Valery Gergiev, conductor Thu, Nov 9, 8pm, ZH Denis Matsuev, piano PURCELL Dido and Aeneas Sat–Sun, Nov 4–5, ZH CHARPENTIER Actéon SAT, 8PM The French early-music ensemble Les Arts Florissants has earned international acclaim for SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9 reviving Baroque opera with vivid theatricality, keen musicological insight, and a distinctly PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 modern dramatic sense. Director William Christie leads the ensemble in two sonically rich works SCRIABIN Symphony No. 3, involving supernatural powers meddling in mortal The Divine Poem affairs—Purcell’s transcendent Dido and Aeneas and Charpentier’s pastorale Actéon, each a SUN, 3PM seamless marriage of narrative and music. Patron Sponsor: Ross E. Armstrong R. STRAUSS Don Juan in memory of Jonas (Jay) K. Stern RODION Major support provided by SHCHEDRIN Piano Concerto No. 2 The Bernard Osher Foundation. PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6 Few orchestras can match the Mariinsky’s Ian Bostridge, tenor authority, blend, and fullness of sound when it is Wenwen Du, piano playing the music of its countrymen. Directed by Valery Gergiev, “a born Prokofiev interpreter” (The Schubert’s Winterreise Guardian, London), the Mariinsky plays complex works by two 20th-century giants who lived in the Fri, Nov 10, 8pm, ZH shadow of Stalin’s regime: the Soviet government As he has chronicled in his insightful Schubert’s disapproved of both Prokofiev’s emotionally Winter Journey—Anatomy of an Obsession, tenor expansive Sixth Symphony and Shostakovich’s Ian Bostridge has had a profound relationship volatile Ninth. Scriabin’s Third Symphony is a with the most famous of song cycles throughout radiant, restless tone poem for orchestra; and his entire career. Bostridge’s special affinity for Strauss’ Don Juan is ebullient program music. Winterreise has grown through more than 100 The powerful and dazzling pianist Denis Matsuev performances over three decades and in many joins for Prokofiev’s bold and athletic Second different contexts, and Schubert’s haunting, Concerto and Rodion Shchedrin’s 12-tone layered musical allegory continues to captivate Second Concerto. him. “It is as if Schubert somehow looked into the future, heard Bostridge sing and wrote Winterreise ADDED EVENT! specifically for him” (Exeunt Magazine). Anthony de Mare, piano Patron Sponsors: Michael A. Harrison and Susan Graham Harrison Liaisons: Reimagining Sondheim from the Piano Major support provided by The Bernard Osher Foundation. Sun, Nov 5, 7pm, HH Direct from Argentina The brilliant songs of Stephen Sondheim find a second life as beguiling instrumentals Tango Buenos Aires in Anthony de Mare’s acclaimed Liaisons project. The pianist and new-music The Spirit of Argentina champion has commissioned a wide range of prominent composers—including Sat, Nov 11, 8pm, ZH William Bolcom, Steve Reich, Jake Heggie, Mason Bates, Gabriel Kahane, Ethan For more than 30 years, Tango Buenos Aires Iverson, and Wynton Marsalis—to each has traveled the world as an ambassador of re-imagine a favorite Sondheim song as a Argentina’s most cherished cultural export, work for solo piano. The thrilling result is a bringing the stirring sounds and sultry elegance set of fully realized compositions of nuance of the tango to audiences near and far. The and subtlety, works that use the original company showcases its “blazing artistry” and themes as springboards for invention and “stunning” choreography (Sacramento Press) showcase de Mare’s formidable talents at in its newest production, an homage to the the keyboard. legendary singer, songwriter, composer, and actor Carlos Gardel, one of the most prominent and adored figures in the history of the art form.6

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Tetzlaff Quartet The Joffrey BalletSun, Nov 12, 3pm, HH Fri–Sat, Nov 17–18, 8pm Sun, Nov 19, 3pm, ZHMOZART Quartet No. 16 in E-flat Major, JUSTIN PECK In Creases (music: Philip Glass, K. 428 Four Movements for Two Pianos)BERG Quartet, Op. 3SCHUBERT Quartet No. 15 in G Major, NICOLAS Encounter (music: John Adams, D. 887 BLANC Part 1 from Saxophone Concerto) (West Coast Premiere)Violinist Christian Tetzlaff returns for a rareappearance with his namesake string quartet— ALEXANDER Joymaking its eagerly anticipated Cal Performances EKMAN debut—in a program of three landmark works (West Coast Premiere)that showcase the ensemble’s vast expressive (Cal Performances Co-Commission)range. Mozart’s series of string quartets dedicated (music: Brad Mehldau Trio,to Haydn are the pinnacle of melodic ingenuity Django Django, Tiga, Moby)and classical refinement; nearly 50 years later,Schubert wrote his massive and mercurial final ANNABELLEquartet, just a few years before his death in 1828. LOPEZ OCHOA Mammatus (music:Written in 1910, Berg’s complex and technically Michael Gordon, Weather One)demanding Quartet became a seminal work ofthe Second Viennese School. With this program of new and recent worksPatron Sponsors: Will and Linda Schieber by some of the most exciting choreographers working today, The Joffrey Ballet stays true to itsDirect from Johannesburg 60-year reputation for innovation and eclecticism. Performed to a live Philip Glass score, JustinFestival of Peck’s In Creases showcases his keen eye forSouth African Dance manipulating bodies to form complex geometric structures. Annabelle Lopez Ochoa creates aFeaturing the Gumboots and spellbinding depiction of a turbulent cloud formationPantsula Dance Companies in Mammatus, and Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman’s Joy, a Cal Performances co-Sun, Nov 12, 7pm, ZH commission, receives its West Coast premiere.From the diamond mines and townships of South Imago TheatreAfrica come two spirited dance troupes whoseart forms speak volumes about the country’s La Belledynamic and evolving culture. Gumboot dancing—performed in rubber Wellington boots—was Fri, Nov 24, 8pm THANKSGIVINGdeveloped by black miners to accompany work Sat, Nov 25, 2pm WEEKEND!songs and serve as a form of communication Sun, Nov 26, 3pm, ZHwhen talking and drumming were prohibited.Pantsula, an energetic urban street dance with The creators of Frogz are back with La Belle, aprecise, technical footwork, originated in the black marvelously inventive new production that is parttownships during Apartheid. Both dances are Beauty and the Beast, part Willy Wonka and thegrounded in social movements and have evolved Chocolate Factory, featuring two actors and aover decades, along with the country’s shifting cast of automatons and shadow puppets in apolitical climate. whimsical steampunk love story. Set in the engine room of a 1920s steamship, La Belle conjures up a deliciously detailed and tactile wonderland, filled with intricate gears, giant water wheels, handmade machines, and mischievous fairies.FESTIVAL OF SOUTH AFRICAN DANCE December Claire Chase, flute Music from Density 2036 Sat, Dec 2, 4:30pm, BAMPFA 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—the 2017 winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, a MacArthur Fellow, and founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)— will commission a new body of work for solo flute each year for 22 years, until the 100th anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking flute solo, Density 21.5. At the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, she performs selections from Density, Parts I–IV (2013–16). 9

Camille A. Brown & Dancers BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play Camille A. Brown, choreographer Scott Patterson, composer and piano Robin Bramlett, electric bass Tracy Wormworth, composer Fri–Sat, Dec 8–9, 8pm Sun, Dec 10, 3pm, ZP 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 Guggenheim Fellow, has created dances for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Urban Bush Women and is known for imaginative works that address issues of identity and social justice. Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org. Takács Quartet Garrick Ohlsson, piano Sun, Dec 10, 3pm, ZH RAGAMALA DANCE COMPANY MOZART Quartet No. 21 in D Major, K. 575, The Violet Ragamala Dance Company SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Written in Water Op. 122 Conceived and choreographed by BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, Ranee Ramaswamy and Op. 34 Aparna Ramaswamy Amir ElSaffar and Prema Ramamurthy, Each time the Takács Quartet walks on stage for Cal Performances, its four players invite Berkeley composers audiences to experience a new dimension of this Sat, Dec 2, 8pm superlative ensemble’s musical artistry. Returning Sun, Dec 3, 3pm, ZP after last season’s heroic cycle of the complete Minneapolis-based Ragamala Dance Company Beethoven quartets, the Takács welcomes has been lauded for bringing “a visionary approach commanding pianist Garrick Ohlsson for Brahms’ to an ancient art form” (Dance Magazine) in its inventive and richly contrapuntal Piano Quintet, stunning productions rooted in the South Indian plus the first of Mozart’s ebullient Prussian quartets Bharatanatyam classical dance form. Written in and Shostakovich’s brooding Eleventh Quartet. Water explores the cultural complexities of the modern world through the metaphor of the ancient The Hard Nut Indian board game Snakes and Ladders, with a Mark Morris Dance Group live music score performed by an ensemble of four musicians, including jazz trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, Music by Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker) known for his distinctive fusion of contemporary Choreography by Mark Morris jazz and Iraqi maqam. Colin Fowler, conductor Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org. Members of the Berkeley Symphony Piedmont East Bay Children’s Simon O’Neill, tenor Choir, Ensemble Sun, Dec 3, 3pm, HH Robert Geary, founding artistic director The rich, thunderous voice of Simon O’Neill, “the best heroic tenor to emerge over the last decade” Fri, Dec 15, 8pm (The Telegraph, London), has shaken the walls of Sat, Dec 16, 2pm & 8pm every grand opera house in the world. A protégé Sun, Dec 17, 3pm of Plácido Domingo and principal artist with the Thu–Fri, Dec 21–22, 8pm Metropolitan Opera, O’Neill is perhaps best known Sat, Dec 23, 2pm & 8pm in the title roles of Verdi’s Otello and Wagner’s Sun, Dec 24, 3pm, ZH Lohengrin, and as Siegmund in Die Walküre. This What holiday season would be complete without intimate recital setting offers a rare opportunity to go-go boots, dancing G.I. Joes, gender-bending experience the sweeter, gentler side of O’Neill’s snowflakes, and a spirited, slightly out-of-control artistry in a wide range of repertoire. family Christmas party? Mark Morris’ The Hard Major support provided by Annette Campbell- Nut, “as gleefully irreverent as it is visually poetic White and Trustees of Kia Ora Foundation. and musically sensitive” (Dance Magazine), returns to Zellerbach Hall for the first time in five years10 with all that and more. Set to Tchaikovsky’s iconic Nutcracker score, this lavish production has been charming audiences for over 25 years, delivering a pitch-perfect dose of both naughty and nice! Patron Sponsors: Helen and John Meyer

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Research And Development Initiative inCreativity, Arts, and LearningBerkeley RADICAL, our transformativeprogramming initiative, cultivates futurepaths and audiences for the performing arts.Join us as Berkeley RADICAL 2017/18 takesan in-depth look at artists, works, and ideasthat challenge boundaries, barriers, andborders of all types—of genre, of time, ofconvention, and most importantly, of ourunderstanding of ourselves.In addition to the performances noted on thispage, a wide range of activities related to thethree Berkeley RADICAL strands will beannounced throughout the season.Visit calperformances.org/berkeley-radical for full details.Joining Generations Blurring Boundaries Vaulting WallsFour generations of African- Artists dissolving the very Artists boldly challenging ourAmerican choreographers who boundaries of their art forms and understanding of the worldhave expanded the boundaries extending their work across around us and the limitationsof contemporary dance. cultures, disciplines, and even of conventional thought.Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel time and space.Performance Group Théâtre de la Ville, ParisMoses(es) Gustavo Dudamel Conducts State of SiegeSept 23–24, ZH National Youth Orchestra of Oct 21–22, ZHSee p. 1 for details. Venezuela at the Greek See p. 2 for details.Camille A. Brown & Dancers Sept 21, GTBLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play See inside front cover for details. Kronos QuartetDec 8–10, ZH Rinde EckertSee p. 10 for details. Ragamala Dance Company Vân-Ánh VõSpectrum Dance Theater Written in Water My LaiA Rap on Race Dec 2–3, ZP March 4, ZHFeb 9–10, OMO See p. 10 for details. See p. 19 for details.See p. 15 for details.Alvin Ailey Circa Seattle SymphonyAmerican Dance Theater Il Ritorno Ludovic Morlot, conductorApr 10–15, ZH Feb 3–4, ZH April 7–8, ZHSee p. 23 for details. See p. 15 for details. See p. 20 for details.SPECTRUM DANCE The Saint Paul Ex MachinaTHEATER Chamber Orchestra Robert Lepage’s 887 Jonathan Biss, May 4–5, ZH piano and director See p. 24 for details. Joshua Weilerstein, conductor Feb 9–11, ZH See p. 16 for details. Company Wang Ramirez Borderline Feb 24–25, ZH See p. 16 for details. Julia Bullock, soprano John Arida, piano March 25, HH See p. 20 for details.

Expand and Enhance REGGIE WILSON/FIST AND HEELYour Experience! PERFORMANCE GROUP MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUPCal Performances offers a wide range of engagement THE JOFFREY BALLETopportunities designed to deepen your experience THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRAwith the performing arts. Details for all events—manyof which are free and open to the public—are availableat calperformances.org. Remember to check online foradded events throughout the season!Pre- and Post-Performance TalksSelect events feature informative pre- and post-performance talks with artists and scholars.Free to ticket holders, talks this season include:Sept 23 Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group; Moses(es)Oct 11 ODC/Dance; boulders and bonesOct 21– 22 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; State of SiegeNov 9 Les Arts FlorissantsDec 10 Takács Quartet; Garrick Ohlsson, pianoJan 28 Musicians from MarlboroFeb 7 Cécile McLorin SalvantFeb 10 The Saint Paul Chamber OrchestraMar 4 Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, Vân-Ánh Võ; My LaiMar 22 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick CoreaApr 20 Apollo’s Fire—The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra; Monteverdi’s L’OrfeoCommunity EventsParticipatory community dance classes, workshops,music events—and even a traditional Korean parade!—offer direct engagement with artists. Check for detailsand registration on the event pages.Sept 22 Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group; Moses(es)Oct 8 ODC/Dance; boulders and bonesOct 28 Korean National Gugak Center Creative Traditional OrchestraNov 12 Festival of South African DanceNov 18 The Joffrey BalletDec 9 Camille A. Brown & Dancers; BLACK GIRL: Linguistic PlayDec 17 Mark Morris Dance Group; The Hard NutFeb 8 & 11 Spectrum Dance Theater; A Rap on RaceApr 8 Seattle SymphonyApr 13 & 15 Alvin Ailey American Dance TheaterPublic ForumsEngage in fascinating public forums includingroundtable discussions, master classes, lectures,and artist talks. Events this season include:Sept 21 Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group; Moses(es)Oct 12–15 Chicago Symphony OrchestraOct 28 Korean National Gugak Center Creative Traditional OrchestraNov 18 The Joffrey BalletDec 8 Camille A. Brown & Dancers; BLACK GIRL: Linguistic PlayFeb 6 Spectrum Dance Theater; A Rap on RaceMar 4 Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, Vân-Ánh Võ; My Lai

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JanuaryPeking AcrobatsSat, Jan 27, 2pm & 8pmSun, Jan 28, 3pm, ZHPerformances by the agile and exuberantPeking Acrobats combine the deep traditionand rigorous training of ancient folk arts withthe sleek theatricality and technical savvy of the21st century. Dressed in ornate costumes andaccompanied by live music played on Chineseinstruments, the supernaturally graceful acrobatsdazzle with aerial routines, juggling, tumbling,somersaults, and gymnastics, plus daring stuntslike trick cycling and the human pyramid.Musicians from Marlboro CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANTAnthony McGill, clarinet Cécile McLorin SalvantEmilie-Anne Gendron, violinDavid McCarroll, violin Wed, Feb 7, 8pm, ZHDaniel Kim, viola A young jazz star with an old soul, Cécile McLorinMarcy Rosen, cello Salvant is among the most exciting singers of her generation. Credited with carrying on the legacySun, Jan 28, 3pm, HH of legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, she commands a prodigious array of talents:BEETHOVEN String Trio No. 5 in C minor, “perfect pitch and enunciation, a playful sense of Op. 9, No. 3 humor, a rich and varied tonal palette, a suppleKRZYSZTOF sense of swing, exquisite taste in songs andPENDERECKI Quartet for Clarinet phrasing, and a deep connection to lyrics” (The and String Trio New York Times). Her repertoire includes familiarBRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor, jazz standards, forgotten folk songs, and rare Op. 115 blues tunes, plus her own unique compositions.Sensational clarinetist Anthony McGill—“the total Spectrum Dance Theaterpackage…stylish, passionate, and limitlesslyfluent” (Bachtrack)—joins four young string A Rap on Raceplayers of the esteemed Musicians from Marlborotouring program in an exciting concert of chamber Co-created by director/choreographerworks. With McGill, who is principal clarinetist of Donald Byrdthe New York Philharmonic, the ensemble plays and actress/playwrightPenderecki’s lean quartet, an exercise in tonal Anna Deavere Smithextremes, as well as Brahms’ ingenious late Julie Briskman, Margaret Meadquintet, which masterfully integrates the clarinet Donald Byrd, James Baldwininto the sonic world of the string quartet. NOTE NEW DATES: Fri, Feb 9, 8pmFebruary Sat, Feb 10, 2pm & 8pm, OMO NOTE LOCATION:Circa Oakland Metro Operahouse 522 2nd St, OaklandIl Ritorno Nearly 50 years ago, two towering public figures—African-American novelist JamesCreated by Yaron Lifschitz with Baldwin and white anthropologist MargaretQuincy Grant and the Circa Ensemble Mead—sat together and recorded an epic andSat, Feb 3, 8pm intimate seven-and-a-half-hour conversationSun, Feb 4, 3pm, ZH about race in America. Now, visionaryJuxtaposing circus arts with the glorious music of choreographer Donald Byrd and renownedIl ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Monteverdi’s 17th- playwright Anna Deavere Smith collaborate tocentury opera about Ulysses’ homecoming, the bring that conversation into the present moment,Australian troupe Circa tells a timeless story of in a new dance-theater work performed byloss and displacement in its latest production, Byrd’s acclaimed Spectrum Dance Theater.Il Ritorno. Six masterful acrobats join four A Rap on Race, named after the book publishedchamber musicians and two singers in a from a transcript of that meeting, combines textstark staging that powerfully unites music with movement and music to communicate thewith movement. “The piece reverberates with complexities of talking about race, at a timereal emotional pungency, as if the essence of when that conversation is as necessary as ever.homesickness has been bottled. I’ve seen grief “It evokes a whole roiling nation caught in themany times on stage, but seldom have I seen it cobwebs of history...” (Seattle Times).depicted so well” (The Guardian, London). Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org.Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org. 15

The Saint Paul St. Lawrence Chamber Orchestra String Quartet Jonathan Biss, piano and director Sun, Feb 18, 3pm, HH Joshua Weilerstein, conductor JOHN ADAMS First Quartet Fri–Sun, Feb 9–11, ZH Second Quartet SAMUEL ADAMS String Quartet in FRI, 8PM Five Movements BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 The Bay Area’s own St. Lawrence String Quartet TIMO ANDRES The Blind Banister performs an all-Adams program of works by (West Coast Premiere) father John, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Italian son Samuel, the wunderkind who has been commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the San SAT, 8PM Symphony No. 49, The Passion Francisco Symphony, among others. A testament to the fertile creative relationship enjoyed by these HAYDN Piano Concerto artists, all three quartets were written specifically SALVATORE (West Coast Premiere) for the ensemble. Adams, Sr., says: “What I SCIARRINO The Unanswered Question appreciate about my friends in the St. Lawrence (1908; rev. 1930–35) is their willingness to let me literally ‘improvise’ on IVES Piano Concerto No. 4 them…they will go the distance with me, allow me to try and fail, all the while providing intuitions BEETHOVEN and frequently brilliant suggestions of their own.” SUN, 3PM Tony Kushner and Sarah Vowell RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin GEORGE The Lincoln Legacy: TSONTAKIS O Mikros, O Megas The Man and His Presidency (This Tiny World, This Enormous World) Wed, Feb 21, 8pm, ZH (West Coast Premiere) Award-winning playwright and screenwriter BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor Tony Kushner and bestselling author and radio personality Sarah Vowell meet for a conversation The remarkable Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra about Abraham Lincoln, reflecting on his leadership returns with acclaimed pianist Jonathan Biss (who and legacy and the challenges of American will also direct some works from the keyboard) democracy in his time and ours. Well known for his with new music from its ambitious Beethoven/5 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels collaboration—a multi-year project to commission in America, Kushner later wrote the screenplay for new concertos from five composers, each inspired Steven Spielberg’s biopic Lincoln. Vowell has written by one of Beethoven’s masterworks. Biss and the widely about American history and culture, including orchestra perform West Coast premieres of piano in her books Assassination Vacation—with a section concertos by Timo Andres (his Pulitzer-nominated about Lincoln—and her most recent Lafayette in the The Blind Banister) and Salvatore Sciarrino, each Somewhat United States. paired with its companion Beethoven concerto. Also in its West Coast premiere, the SPCO Company Wang Ramirez performs George Tsontakis’ wistful, elegant O Mikros, O Megas. Beethoven’s towering Borderline Emperor Concerto provides a rousing finale to the orchestra’s weekend residency. Honji Wang & Sébastien Ramirez, Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org. choreographers Dorothea Röschmann, soprano Malcolm Martineau, piano Jean-Philippe Barrios aka Lacrymoboy, music Fri, Feb 16, 8pm, HH Sat, Feb 24, 8pm Dorothea Röschmann’s many admirers regularly Sun, Feb 25, 3pm, ZH compare her “gorgeously tempered soprano” Partners in life and in performance, Korean- (The Guardian, London) to more palpable German dancer Honji Wang and French- luxuries—velvet, silk, wine, chocolate. A regular Spanish dancer Sébastien Ramirez explore guest at the world’s leading opera houses and the complexities of human relationships and concert halls, Röschmann can sail through the modern identities through their inventive ornate coloratura of a Mozart aria and plumb the dance-theater aesthetic. Their acclaimed emotional depths of Schumann lieder. Here, with hip-hop-meets-tanztheater opus, Borderline, incomparable pianist Malcolm Martineau, she sings features a cast of six dancers hooked up to a program featuring Mahler’s lyrical Rückert Lieder an aerial rigging system, allowing them to defy and Wagner’s intimate Wesendonck Lieder. gravity as the nuanced choreography explores visual metaphors of flight, struggle, freedom, constraint, and the forces that connect us and tear us apart. “An ingenious show by stunning performers” (The Evening Standard, London). Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org.16

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Sérgio & Odair Assad Marchand Avi Avital Kronos QuartetSun, Feb 25, 3pm, HH Rinde EckertThe telepathic musical chemistry of guitarist Vân-Ánh Võbrothers Sérgio and Odair Assad meets the“explosively charismatic” (The New York Times) My Laimandolin playing of Avi Avital, in an inspirednew collaboration. From classical works by FULLY STAGED PRODUCTIONBach and Bartók reimagined for strummed and Jonathan Berger, composerplucked strings, to gems by South American Harriet Scott Chessman, librettistcomposers Ginastera and Piazzolla, to the kinetic Sun, March 4, 7pm, ZHrhythms and brazen virtuosity of Brazilian choro It was nearly 50 years ago that American soldiersmusic, these master musicians effortlessly—and massacred hundreds of unarmed Vietnamesejoyfully—traverse a panoramic landscape of villagers at My Lai. Kronos Quartet’s fully stagedmusical styles and sounds. collaboration with composer Jonathan BergerSupport for the presentation of Israeli and novelist Harriet Scott Chessman revisits theartists is provided by the Sir Jack Lyons horrors of that day and its aftermath, from theCharitable Trust. perspective of the heroic helicopter pilot who tried to intervene. Berger’s “richly evocative” andSPECIAL EVENT “hauntingly beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle) score blends Rinde Eckert’s expressive voiceEmanuel Ax, piano with string quartet augmented by traditionalLeonidas Kavakos, violin Vietnamese instruments played by Vân-Ánh Võ,Yo-Yo Ma, cello and an electronic soundscape of helicopters, voices, and snippets of American blues.Wed, Feb 28, 8pm, ZH Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org.SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 Eva Yerbabuena Company in B-flat Major, D. 898BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 ¡Ay! in B Major, Op. 8 Eva Yerbabuena, choreographerA meeting of three chamber music titans! Paco Jarana, guitarLongtime duo partners and consummate Alfredo Tejada, Enrique El Extremeño,masters, pianist Emanuel Ax and cellist Yo-Yo Juan José Amador, singersMa join with dynamic violinist Leonidas Kavakos Wed, March 7, 8pm, ZHfor an evening of chamber works played with In her introspective and compelling ¡Ay!, flamencosoaring beauty and impeccable dexterity. Ax and superstar Eva Yerbabuena showcases herMa have been collaborating for decades and extraordinary technique and bold, minimalistshare five Grammys for their recordings together; choreography, performing a series of solosKavakos was artist-in-residence at the New York accompanied by a virtuoso ensemble ofPhilharmonic last season. They combine their musicians. Yerbabuena’s innovative approach hastalents in two of the most substantial and effusive revitalized traditional flamenco with new dramaticworks in the piano trio repertoire. structures while maintaining the essential duende, or soulfulness, of the centuries-old form. At herADDED EVENT! last Berkeley appearance, she “rocked the joint with… a solea that released the demonic energyNPR’s From the Top with and superb musicality of flamenco at its mostHost Christopher O’Riley inspired” (San Francisco Chronicle).Fri, March 2, 8pm, ZH Wu Man and theJoin the studio audience at Zellerbach Huayin Shadow Puppet BandHall for a live taping of From the Top, oneof National Public Radio’s most popular Sun, March 11, 3pm, HHweekly music programs. Hosted by eclectic Imagine pipa virtuoso Wu Man, “a one-womanpianist Christopher O’Riley, From the Top force of nature” (Gramophone) and a favoriteshares the stories and performances of of Berkeley audiences after her acclaimedpre-college classical musicians with more collaborations with Kronos Quartet and the Silkthan 700,000 listeners each week, through Road Ensemble, immersed in the gloriouslylive-recorded concerts presented in raucous folk music of a small village in China’scommunities across the country. Expect to Shaanxi Province. The Huayin Shadow Puppethear gorgeous music and charming stories Band, which Wu Man discovered and broughtfrom some of the best and brightest young to New York for Carnegie Hall’s China Festival inmusicians from around the Bay Area. 2009, performs lively stories of life in rural China, with shadow puppets, lutes, fiddles, wooden clappers, and gongs. Patron Sponsors: Greg and Liz Lutz 19

JULIA BULLOCK Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Manual Cinema with Chick Corea Ada/Ava Thu, March 22, 8pm, ZH An exceptional opportunity to hear NEA Jazz Drew Dir, director Master and 18-time Grammy winner Chick Corea Kyle Vegter and Ben Kauffman, in a big band! The hard-swinging Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra visits with Corea as special sound and score guest, for an evening of music from the pianist’s incredibly diverse songbook. Expect grand, lush Fri, March 16, 8pm renditions of Corea classics like “Crystal Silence,” Sat, March 17, 2pm & 8pm “You’re Everything,” “Armando’s Rhumba,” and Sun, March 18, 3pm, ZP “Tones for Joan’s Bones,” arranged by members Shadow puppetry, live music, and immersive of the incomparable Lincoln Center band. visual effects combine to tell the magical story of two elderly sister lighthouse keepers separated Julia Bullock, soprano by death, in Manual Cinema’s charming Ada/ John Arida, piano Ava. The Chicago-based performance collective’s “exquisitely precise piece of visual storytelling” Sun, March 25, 3pm, HH (The Guardian, London) evokes the supernatural At the 2016 Ojai at Berkeley festival, Julia Bullock world of the New England gothic, where the living portrayed French philosopher/mystic Simone and the dead commingle in an exploration of Weil in a new-music oratorio, and the legendary melancholy, loneliness, and sisterly love. dancer/singer Josephine Baker in a jazz suite, both within the span of a few days—and both to rave reviews. In recital, the formidable and versatile young soprano lends “a wonderful combination of power and expressive directness” (San Francisco Chronicle) to her carefully curated programs, here mixing art song by Schubert, Barber, and Fauré with selections from the African-American jazz and blues traditions of Nina Simone and Billie Holiday. Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org. April Seattle Symphony Ludovic Morlot, conductor Sat–Sun, April 7–8, ZH SAT, 8PM David Finckel, cello JOHN LUTHER Become Desert Wu Han, piano ADAMS (California Premiere) Symphony No. 2 Sun, March 18, 3pm, HH SIBELIUS BEETHOVEN Variations on “See the SUN, 3PM conqu’ring hero comes” SIBELIUS The Oceanides from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes BRUCE ADOLPHE Couple JOHN LUTHER LERA AUERBACH Sonata for Cello and Piano, ADAMS Become Ocean Op. 69 The Seattle Symphony Orchestra lives up to its MENDELSSOHN Song Without Words reputation for distinctive and inspired programming with a selection of works that contemplate and GRIEG Sonata for Cello and Piano commune with the natural world. Each program in A minor, Op. 36 features a recent work by Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams, who creates hypnotic, Beloved by chamber music audiences on both immersive soundscapes and has been called “one coasts as co-artistic directors of New York’s of the most original musical thinkers of the new Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and century” (The New Yorker). Other works include California’s Music@Menlo, pianist Wu Han and Sibelius’ folk-infused Second Symphony and cellist David Finckel return with a characteristically impressionistic tone poem The Oceanides, plus a insightful program of familiar and lesser-known series of foreboding instrumental interludes from works that showcase their extraordinary talents. Britten’s opera Peter Grimes. Beethoven’s variations on an aria from a Handel Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org. oratorio, and Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words This project is supported in part by an award are matched with Grieg’s evocative A-minor from the National Endowment for the Arts. Sonata and two works written specifically for the duo by American composer Bruce Adolphe and Russian composer Lera Auerbach.20

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Alvin Ailey ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATERAmerican Dance Theater ADDED SPECIAL EVENT!Robert Battle, artistic directorMasazumi Chaya, associate artistic director Boston Pops at the GreekTue–Fri, April 10–13, 8pmSat, April 14, 2pm & 8pm Keith Lockhart, conductorSun, April 15, 3pm, ZH Music of John WilliamsUnder the direction of Robert Battle, Alvin AileyAmerican Dance Theater continues to make work Sat, April 21, 8pm, GTthat “feeds the soul,” mining the artistic legacy With a storied history that begins with theof its founder, and nurturing a new generation of establishment of the modern-era Popschoreographers steeped in the African-American by Arthur Fiedler and continuing throughexperience. With repertoire that looks back to the new millennium under the directionto seminal works like Ailey’s own Revelations, of Keith Lockhart, “America’s Orchestra,”and new material that engages with vital social the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra,movements, the company creates dances with is among the most beloved symphonicthe power to transform lives. “The current Ailey ensembles in the country. The groupdancers inhabit Revelations as if it were freshly celebrates the extraordinary five-decademade, and perform it with irresistible élan” career of one of its former conductors, 22-(The Guardian, London). time Grammy winner John Williams. TheBerkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org. program is sure to include selections from some of Williams’ most iconic HollywoodArmenian State film scores, including Star Wars, Jaws,Chamber Choir Superman, Indiana Jones, and E.T.Robert Mlkeyan, director Richard Goode, pianoSat, April 14, 8pm, FCCThirty-five voices strong, the Armenian State Sun, April 22, 3pm, ZHChamber Choir sings repertoire from the choralcanon by Gabrielli, Bach, Brahms, and Schnittke, BYRD Selections fromas well as contemporary works by Armenian My Ladye Nevells Bookecomposers that address the turbulent and oftentragic history of the Armenian people. The choir BACH English Suite No. 6 in D minor,has recorded folk songs by the martyred priest BWV 811and ethnomusicologist Komitas; and its recordingon ECM of Tigran Mansurian’s Ars Poetica was BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101praised for its superb ensemble cohesion andblend: “gorgeous, emotive, and very deeply felt DEBUSSY Préludes, Book 2a cappella choral music...fully the product ofinspiration” (All Music Guide). A magisterial presence at the keyboard, Richard Goode was the first American pianist to recordApollo’s Fire– the complete Beethoven sonatas. DecadesThe Cleveland later, he remains “among the most persuasiveBaroque Orchestra Beethoven interpreters of our time” (San Francisco Chronicle), known for performances ofMonteverdi’s L’Orfeo towering intellect, refinement, and insight. Here, he performs Beethoven’s Sonata No. 28, one ofSEMI-STAGED PRODUCTION his very favorite pieces and a work that marks theJeannette Sorrell, conductor beginning of the composer’s restless, searchingKarim Sulayman, Orfeo late period. Goode’s characteristically well-Erica Schuller, Euridice designed program also includes Renaissance-eraFri, April 20, 8pm, ZH works by William Byrd and Bach, as well as aCleveland’s dynamic period-music ensemble selection of Debussy’s timeless miniatures.Apollo’s Fire returns with a semi-staged productionof Monteverdi’s beloved and timeless L’Orfeo.Director Jeannette Sorrell leads her superbinstrumentalists and vocalists on a dramaticjourney to Hades and back, following the mythicOrpheus on his tragic mission—including areconstruction of the work’s original ending, inwhich our hero perishes at the hands of Bacchus’followers. “Monteverdi’s Orfeo was a triumph forJeannette Sorrell, showing us new dimensions ofher genius” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).Patron Sponsors: Charles and Helene Linker 23

With Thanks MayCal Performances thanks the Leif Ove Andsnes, pianofollowing foundations andcorporations for their lead support Fri, May 4, 8pm, FCCof the 2017/18 season. NIELSEN Chaconne, Op. 32Foundation Support: SIBELIUS Selected worksTHE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATIONFunding for large-scale artist residencies and BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 17 in D minor,Cal Performances’ suite of student life and Op. 131, No. 2, The Tempestlearning programs, including innovativesemester-long courses that bring together SCHUBERT Two Scherzos, D. 593campus academic programs with CalPerformances’ programs and artists for unique JÖRG WIDMANN Idyll and Abyssstudent engagement opportunities, is providedby The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. SCHUBERT Three Piano Pieces, D. 946THE WALLACE FOUNDATIONA multi-year grant supporting programs designed Charismatic Norwegian pianist Leif Oveto deepen and increase participation among Andsnes is admired as much for his thoughtfullyUC Berkeley students is provided by The Wallace constructed recital programs as for his insightfulFoundation as part of its Building Audiences interpretations of a wide range of repertoire. Here,for Sustainability initiative, which seeks to help he matches rarely heard Sibelius piano piecesselected arts organizations reach new audiences from the early 20th century with Beethoven’sand build knowledge for the field. moody Tempest Sonata, Carl Nielsen’s dynamicWILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION, Chaconne, sparkling works by Schubert, andANN AND GORDON GETTY FOUNDATION, Jörg Widmann’s homage to Schubert, hisand ZELLERBACH FAMILY FOUNDATION kaleidoscopic Idyll and Abyss. “A probing musicalGeneral operating support is provided by these analyst as well as an interpreter of enormouslead funders. technical panache and poetic nuance” (SanTHE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION Francisco Chronicle).Support for select engagements throughout Patron Sponsors: Gail and Daniel Rubinfeldthe season is provided by The Bernard Osher Major support provided byFoundation. The Bernard Osher Foundation.KORET FOUNDATIONThe Koret Recital Series is made possible, Ex Machinain part, by the Koret Foundation. 887Corporate Support: Written, designed, directed, andUnderwriting for presentations in Oakland is performed by Robert Lepageprovided by Signature Development Group. Fri–Sat, May 4–5, 8pm, ZHSeason Sponsor Acclaimed Canadian director, actor, and playwright Robert Lepage focuses his latest workZellerbach Hall’s state-of-the-art sound system down to the most intimate scale—a one-manis generously provided by Meyer Sound. show steeped in his own childhood memories. In this “touching, intimate, powerful” (The Guardian,Major support for public programs is London) performance, Lepage’s commandingprovided by Bank of America. presence is amplified by the technical wizardry of his production company, Ex Machina. TheDesign: Cuttriss & Hambleton production employs everything from archival film footage to shadow puppetry to dollhouse-like miniatures of entire city blocks. Performed in English and French with English supertitles. Berkeley RADICAL. More at calperformances.org. EX MACHINA

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