Layla and Majnun. Director/choreographer Mark Morris talks about the genesis of his newest work and his relationship with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (World Premiere fall 2016).
AileyCamp! Life changing summer dance camp produced by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and Cal Performances teaches self-discipline and self-esteem through the art of dance. The middle school campers are the stars!
Jazz Conservatory of California. Look inside the only fully accredited four year jazz conservatory in the country with a working/professional faculty that includes John Santos and Marcos Silva
Available Light. Composer John Adams talks about the remounted 1983 production set to his early electronic music with choreography by Lucinda Childs and set by architect Frank Gehery.
Tour photographer Deborah O’Grady’s studio as she captures the beauty and spirit of Olivier Messiaen’s From the Canyon to the Stars, honoring the centenary of the National Park Service
Berkeley Public Schools Fund. One of the oldest school funds in the US raises a million dollars yearly for local schools. Sample the Fund’s work.
Mikhail Baryshnikov on The Old Woman. Famed dancer turned actor talks about working with director Robert Wilson and actor Willem Defoe on the Russian story.
Classical music super star Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela at the legendary Greek Theatre, part of a Cal Performances residency.
Classical music great Yo-Yo Ma plays bluegrass at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre.
Vienna Philharmonic members coach UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra members.
Centennial video celebrates 100 years of great performing arts at Cal Performances.
Maestro conducts the UC Berkeley Symphony in a master class.
Cal Performances' patrons talk about why giving is so important.
Pop-up concerts by members of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.
Humming Beethoven’s Ninth. What’s your favorite passage?
