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The Paris Opera Ballet performs “Red Carpet,” a contemporary ballet by Israeli choreographer Hofesh Schecter that will have its U.S. premiere at UC Berkeley’s Cal Performances, Oct. 2-4. (Julien Benhamou/Paris Opera Ballet)
Posted inDance

Star Israeli choreographer rolls out ‘Red Carpet’ in Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 22, 2025September 22, 2025

Silhouetted in front of a massive chandelier that hovers above the stage, the bodies of dancers create elaborate shapes in one of the many dramatic scenes from the contemporary ballet […]

Dancers in rehearsal for Marika Brussel's "Slant of the Earth." (Courtesy)
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New ballet on Peninsula reinvents Genesis as a love quadrangle

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 8, 2025April 14, 2025
Brothers Esteban Hernández (left; photo/Erik Tomasson) and Isaac (right; photo/Stephen Texeira) are both appearing in "The Nutcracker" in San Francisco this year.
Posted inCulture

Raised in large Mexican Jewish family, these brothers are dancing together in S.F. Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’

by Stav Ziv November 23, 2022November 25, 2022
Retired ballet dancer Debra Rose at her Gyrotonic studio.
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Q&A: A former ballet dancer who isn’t done moving

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 31, 2021March 31, 2021
Kathryn Roszak rehearses dancers at the Women Ballet Choreographers Residency at the Djerassi Program in Woodside, 2018. (Photo/Courtesy of Djerassi Artists Residency)
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Bringing exercise and creativity together through dance at East Bay JCC

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 29, 2018August 29, 2018

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