Venue: UC Berkeley, Zellerbach Hall

Eifman has said he wants move dance back into theater and to use movement to explore the psychological. Both of these the company accomplishes.

He turns and turns, elliptically and with the speed of a skater on ice. Sheer muscle defies gravity and the friction of feet on terra firma.

What makes this piece entirely Mark Morris is, even more than the dancing, the music. 

A cube hangs suspended at an angle and Ramirez, harnessed to a line above the stage, floats above it, fulfilling the promise of dance and the human desire to escape gravity – to fly in angelic weightlessness. 

Eclectic and contemporary, The Joffrey Ballet reimagines human and kinetic beauty.

Ian Bostridge and Wenwen Du deliver Schubert's song cycle with great musicianship, but Bostridge lacks the presence that makes live performance a special treat.

What the choreography of everyday movement creates in the viewer is a sense of nostalgia and poignancy. 

Cal Performances and Philharmonia Baroque present a lavish modern-day première of the 1745 version of Rameau's Le Temple de la Gloire.