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.
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)
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)
PHOTO 3
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)
PHOTO 4
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)
