Performing arts

A traditional Indonesian musical ensemble performs

Arts & culture

New 100-seat performance hall opens on campus

UC Berkeley’s Department of Music unveiled the new Helen and Thomas Wu Performance Hall in September, following an extensive renovation that was years in the making.

Seven acrobatic performers dressed like pro wrestlers perform a scene in a ring

Arts & culture

Circus arts meet pro wrestling in a raucous theatrical performance

Performers on stage in the Broadway show,

Arts & culture

Two centuries later, performance spaces still struggle with ‘soft censorship’

UC Berkeley musicology professor Nicholas Mathew sits for the camera, next to a still photo of an Olympian.

Arts & culture

Watch a UC Berkeley professor break down the origins and stories behind national anthems

Camilo and five other AileyCampers practice a dance on stage in 2009

Dance prepared him for the NFL. It began with a Berkeley summer camp.

Jeff Davis, the retiring university carillonist, sits on the bench of the grand carillon on the observation deck of the Campanile. His body is turned toward the camera and he's wearing eye glasses, a beard, a short-sleeved plaid shirt and a smile.

Retiring University Carillonist Jeff Davis reflects on ‘the coolest job in the world’

Professor Nicholas Mathew holds up a 500-year-old manuscript to a group of visiting middle school students

Middle school students explore musical treasures from special Berkeley collections

Two actors interact on stage, bathed in a reddish orange light. One actor, wearing a wedding dress and a veil, turns away from the other actor, who is facing her back and appears to be pleading with her.

Student designers build a magical realm for Brazilian folktale ‘The River Bride’

Saagar, with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a powder blue suit, holds a viola to his chin while standing in a courtyard

Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

Machine Dazzle, dressed in a huge wig made of bright red and a few yellow fake roses, a red, white and blue tinsel dress and long red velvety gloves with bright makeup covering his face, poses for a portrait

Meet the designer behind the out-of-this-world costumes of ‘Bark of Millions’

four dancers wearing black shirts, shorts and shoes perform a live dance in a museum gallery

Tender and aggressive: Student dancers embody Asian American Greek life

a sepia toned photo of about 100 white men in hats shaking hands and celebrating, some of whom are on top of a train.

They built the railroad. But they were left out of the American story.

artwork in a gallery: twelve wooden tepee poles painted white, steel cable, charcoal, rope, digital print on linen

‘mymothersside’: A tribute to the knowledge keepers in artist Duane Linklater’s family

Theater as power: New professor brings Caribbean performance practice to Berkeley

Several young dancers wearing a black leotards hold their arms out straight to either side as they practice in a well-lit gym

AileyCamp: A six-week transformative dance experience for youth

a conductor and an orchestra stand on stage

Meet Paul Flight, UC Choral Ensembles’ new director

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