Alvin Ailey, ODC Dance, Yuja Wang, more

There is A Good deal likely on in the Bay Spot for music, dance and theater lovers this weekend. Here’s a partial rundown.

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A wide environment of dance

Various broadly varying dance performances are in the offing in the Bay Area this weekend. Here’s a look.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: The renowned New York-based mostly firm has been a common existence at UC Berkeley’s Cal Performances arts collection for decades. but simply because of the pandemic, local followers have been deprived of the company’s stay shows for two years. That improvements this weekend as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, celebrating Robert Battle’s 10 calendar year as artistic director, is in Berkeley for a residency running as a result of April 3. The halt functions 5 various applications providing a full of extra than 20 broadly distinct functions.

Details: Tickets range from $37-$110 calperformances.org.

Robert Moses Kin: The modern day dance corporation headed by renowned San Francisco choreographer Robert Moses is recognised for its provocative multi-media will work concentrating on challenges of race, gender and identification, is again with a new perform, “The Delicate Solace of a A little bit Descended Misplaced Daily life (Suck It).” The immersive general performance melds dance, new music, spoken word, lights results and suspended sculptural installations in a perform that addresses “the fractured heritage, danger, and theft of solace and security from everyday life,” as organizers put it.

Details: 7:30 p.m. April 1-2 2:30 p.m. April 3 Presidio Theatre, San Francisco $15-$45 www.robertmoseskin.org.

Quick Ahead fest: The Silicon Valley-based mostly New Ballet organization provides an evening of manufacturer new works by choreographers Amy Seiwert, Duncan Cooper, Marika Brussel, Mariana Sobral and Dalia Rawson.

Details: 7:30 p.m. April 2 Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose $10-$250 newballet.com, hammertheatre.com.

ODC Dance: The San Francisco firm is celebrating its 50th anniversary as it opens its annual Dance Downtown recital sequence, which operates via up coming weekend and attributes two planet premieres as properly as numerous performs by founder and co-artistic director Brenda Way.

Facts: Performances March 31-April 3 and April 7-10 Yerba Buena Heart for the Arts $25-$150 odc.dance.

David Herrera Overall performance Business: The troupe’s new perform “Tip of My Tongue” explores how non-English American communities rely on indigenous language to maintain their lifestyle. Performances were being rescheduled from January. Details: 8 p.m. March 31 by way of April 2 Z Place, San Francisco. $30-$75 www.zspace.org.

Leela Dance Collective: The organization provides co-founder Seibi Lee in “The Voice In,” which adapts Chinese and Japanese folk tales in a performance of Kathak Indian classical dance.

Specifics: 7:30 p.m. now Taube Atrium Theaetre, San Francisco $25-$50 leela.dance or www.eventbrite.com (lookup for Leela Dance).

— Randy McMullen, Personnel

Classical highlights: Barton, Wang, American masters

Here are some live shows and recitals Bay Spot classical songs supporters must know about.

Barton & Heggie: The dazzling mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton and composer-pianist Jake Heggie appear to Cal Performances Sunday afternoon with a software highlighting alternatives from their the latest recording, “Unexpected Shadows,” as very well as the West Coastline premiere of Heggie’s “What I Skip the Most…,” a tune cycle incorporating texts by Joyce DiDonato, Patti LuPone, Sister Helen Prejean and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Facts: 3 p.m. April 3 Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley $68 calperformances.org.

One more glance at “Figaro”: Presented by Stanford University’s Department of Audio, “Figaro’s Wedding ceremony, or the Depend Curtailed” promises a “bite-sized version” of Mozart’s “The Relationship of Figaro.” With a managing time of about 90 minutes, that includes highlights of Mozart’s indelible score, the clearly show stars baritone Eugene Brancoveanu in the title function.

Facts: 7:30 March 1-April 2 2:30 p.m. April 3 Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University $13-$28 tickets.stanford.edu.

Wang at Davies: Pianist Yuja Wang has always carried out brilliantly in her appearances as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony orchestra. This weekend, she returns to Davies Hall for a solo recital, with the application to be declared. Prepare to be dazzled, regardless of what she plays.

Particulars: 7:30 p.m. April 3 Davies Symphony Corridor, San Francisco $90-$250 www.sfsymphony.org.

American Masters in San Jose: Symphony San Jose returns to the Heart for the Doing Arts this weekend to complete a COVID-delayed system titled “American Masters,” showcasing American classical and jazz specifications. The software consists of Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” Bernstein’s “Three Dance Episodes” from the musical “On the City,” and Duke Ellington’s “Black, Brown and Beige.” Tito Muñoz conducts.

Particulars: 8 p.m. Saturday 2:30 p.m. Sunday $55-$115 www.symphonysanjose.org

— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent

A weekend of jazz royalty

Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has been awarding Jazz Masters fellowships to musicians viewed as to have reached an “exceptionally substantial conventional of achievement.” Besides the financial award, the designation is regarded as a person of the best honors a jazz musician can acquire.

The 2022 awards will be celebrated on March 31 with a tribute live performance at the SFJAZZ Heart in San Francisco honoring this year’s recipients — bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Billy Hart, singer Cassandra Wilson and saxophonist/educator Donald Harrison Jr. – and showcasing these stars as singer Dianne Reeves (who’s also web hosting the clearly show), Jeremiah Collier, Joe Dyson, Ethan Iverson, Dan Kaufman, Salar Nader and far more, as well as the SFJAZZ Collective.

The 7:30 p.m. exhibit is sold out but a late batch of tickets will be offered at the SFJAZZ Middle box business 6-7 p.m. You can also stay-stream the present on the venue’s web site, www.sfjazz.org. It’s free of charge but registration is demanded. Meanwhile, the sensational Reeves, a 2018 Jazz Learn, will carry out at SFJAZZ Middle at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday.

Particulars: Dianne Reeves tickets are $50-$115 proof of vaccination is essential and masks must be worn in the theater www.sfjazz.org.

— Bay Spot Information Basis

Brentwood beckons reserve enthusiasts

Brentwood will be a hotspot for books fans this weekend, as the metropolis hosts a Literary Stroll that will come across authors of all forms positioned in downtown web-sites to discuss, promote and signal their publications.

10 fiction and nonfiction authors will be set in places to eat and other enterprises, such as Tamim Ansary, Steven Burchik, Joey Garcia, Carol Jensen and Sarah Sundin, amongst other people.

And lovers of young children lit should really head to the Brentwood Community Library Local community Place, in which authors Carolyn Joyce Dodds, Claudia Hull and Phelicia Lang will be dependent.

Information: 1-4 p.m. April 3 commence at Brentwood Library, 104 Oak St. to get your wristband $5 go to Brown Paper Tickets, m.bpt.me, and look for for Brentwood Literary stroll Far more information and facts at www.brentwoodlibraryfoundation.org.

— Randy McMullen, Staff