Kamala Harris’ Berkeley ballet teacher fled the Russian Revolution and danced for royalty
Madame Bovie was a world-famous ballerina before teaching in Berkeley for 30 years.
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Shape-shifting dance company Pilobolus will blow minds in Berkeley this week
Pilobolus comes to Zellerbach Hall Oct. 21-22 for the dance company’s first Cal Performances engagement in more than three decades.
Remembering Patricia Bulitt, who danced in creeks and like a bird and held storytelling tea parties for Berkeley women
Patricia Bulitt, a creative force and an impresario, also exhibited her embellished paper dresses in galleries and taught dance to kids in Berkeley and in remote Inuit communities throughout Alaska.
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Hālau O Kekuhi, a dance of revolution, and Māhealani Uchiyama’s Pasifika
Don’t miss the hypnotic sound and movement of this powerhouse hula troupe from the Big Island at Zellerbach Hall, this Sunday at 3 p.m.
‘Mama Washington,’ who brought West African dance to thousands of her ‘children’ at Berkeley High, retires
After nearly 30 years at Berkeley High, the Liberian-born educator and dancer is leaving the studio.
In class with Mama Washington’s dancers
Naomi “Mama Washington” Diouf is retiring after nearly 30 years of teaching West African dance to Berkeley High students. Here, her beginning/intermediate Afro-Haitian class practices a routine in spring 2019. Video by Natalie Orenstein.
Bay Area Dance Week? No, Berkeley/Albany Dance Week!
The Bay Area Dance Week program encompasses more than 400 events, almost all of them free, offering the uncoordinated and nimble alike access to classes, performances, open rehearsals, lectures and more.
A world of dance in Berkeley, and Denise Perrier sings Nancy Wilson
Mahea Uchiyama performs one last time Friday at the dance center that she founded in southwest Berkeley 25 years ago; and, in a rare performance, Denise Perrier celebrates Nancy Wilson tonight at the Black Rep Theater.
Wang Ramirez shakes up time, space at Cal Performances
The boundary-blurring Company Wang Ramirez will perform its hip-hop dance theater work “Borderline” at Cal Performances next week.
In Berkeley: A dance company rooted in traditional Balinese legends and wisdom
Talking with Emiko Saraswati Susilo, director of Gamelan Sekar Jaya, a Balinese music and dance company tucked unobtrusively into a South Berkeley neighborhood.
