Choosing the latter is only a matter of snatching a ticket — or two, because no one wants to salsa alone — to the Berkeley High School jazz program’s “Ensemble/Special Guests Concert & Salsa Dance Party” on June 3 at the newly renovated UC Theatre. The concert featuring the BHS Jazz Ensemble and the 2014 Grammy-winning Pacific Mambo Orchestra is a Berkeley Music Group Community event, with proceeds benefiting the school’s jazz program. Of course there’s benefit for ticket holders too: In addition to the surge of feel-good dopamine that scientific studies have shown the brain releases in response to music, complimentary dance lessons are included. Bay Area salsa instructor Jake Jacobs leads the cha-cha/mambo warm-up at 7 p.m.
Changeling is offering several classes a week for the differently abled, with the cost just $45 for a six-week session, The group will also host its first day camp this summer for school-age children, Changeling is so named ballet shoes size 5b because the ensemble is changing people’s perceptions through its public performances, Last year, Changeling performers presented their original dance pieces at the San Jose Disability Awareness Day and the 2011 Cambrian Festival, But there is a deeper meaning to the name as well, DiLeonardo said..
The curtain opens on a black box that turns into an almost vibrating container of white in which a giant black square hangs upstage center. Color and simple geometry for Albers connoted the power of form to link us to the mystical, and Bauhaus explorations influenced the work of such visual artists today as light sculptors James Turrell and Robert Irwin. While MacGregor’s lighting designer Lucy Carter did an estimable job re-creating optic environments of refined and otherworldly greys, purples, sulphurs and other tones, MacGregor upended it with his spastic and fractured vocabulary. These movements showcased the remarkable contortionist abilities of such dancers as Frances Chung, Maria Kochetkova, Jaime Garcia Castilla, and Francisco Mungamba. But after 10 minutes, the dislocations and Gumby action threw us into a planet of extreme, if liquidy rupture.
4 Eugene O’Neill Festival: The annual event pays homage to the famed playwright (he wrote many of his best-known works at Danville’s Tao House) in inventive ways, This year’s fest includes “The Playboy of the Western World,” Irish writer John Millington Synge’s poetic ballet shoes size 5b morality play, presented by Role Players Ensemble, and O’Neill’s “A Touch of the Poet,” plus storytelling events and more, Details: Through Sept, 30; various Danville venues including the Tao House and Danville’s Village Theatre; www.villagetheatreshows.com; www.eugeneoneill.org..
Click here if viewing from a mobile device. First Lady Michelle Obama posted a veggie-appreciation video of herself with Steph and Ayesha Curry and a bunch of turnips. The clip, a takeoff from the DJ Snake and Lil Jon song “Turn Down for What,” was shared in honor of turnips being planted in the White House kitchen garden. Ayesha asks “Turnip?,” and Steph replies “For what?” And the trio wave their turnips in the air like they just don’t care. The Currys visited the White House in February to celebrate the Golden State Warriors’ NBA championship. Report an errorPolicies and StandardsContact UsTags:BasketballCelebritiesNBAPueng VongsPueng Vongs is a digital producer and writer for the Bay Area News Group.Follow Pueng Vongs@PuengVongsBay Area News GroupSubscribe Today!All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents!blog comments powered by DisqusGet Morning Report and other email newsletters.