Program:
Gerald Arpino/Birthday Variations (1986; music: Giuseppe Verdi)
Chanel DaSilva/Swing Low (West Coast Premiere; 2021; music: Zoe Keating)
Nicolas Blanc/Under the Trees’ Voices (West Coast Premiere; 2021; music: Ezio Bosso)
Itzik Galili/The Sofa (1994; music: Tom Waits)
Yoshihisa Arai/Boléro (West Coast Premiere; 2021; music: Maurice Ravel)

The esteemed Joffrey Ballet returns to Berkeley to conclude its six-year, three-visit campus residency, showcasing new choreographic voices and works by an international group of renowned creators. The program, identical for each performance, features three West Coast premieres.

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PHOTO 1
Caption: The Joffrey Ballet performs Friday–Sunday, March 4–6, 2022. Pictured: Edson Barbosa, Fernando Duarte, Stefan Gonvalvez, and Hyuma Kiyosawa performing Swing Low.
(credit: Cheryl Mann)
The Joffrey Ballet
PHOTO 2
Caption: The Joffrey Ballet performs Friday–Sunday, March 4–6, 2022. Pictured: Anais Bueno (center), Brooke Linford (left), Christine Rocas (right) performing Boléro by Yoshihisa Arai.
(credit: Matt de la Peña)
The Joffrey Ballet
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Caption: The Joffrey Ballet performs Friday–Sunday, March 4–6, 2022. Pictured: Victoria Jaiani and Temur Suluashvili performing Nicolas Blanc’s Under the Trees’ Voices
(credit: Matt de la Peña)
The Sofa
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Caption: The Joffrey Ballet performs Friday–Sunday, March 4–6, 2022. Pictured: Anna Gerberich and Temur Suluashvili in Itzik Galili's The Sofa
(credit: Cheryl Mann)