Mark Morris Dance Group
Four Saints in Three Acts
with Members of Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Members of American Bach Soloists

Thu, Sept 29, '05, 8 pm

Fri, Sept 30, '05, 8 pm

Sat, Oct 1, '05, 8 pm

Venue: Zellerbach Hall A

Price: $30/$42/$58

From the Director: Read what Robert Cole, Director, has to say about the Mark Morris Dance Group in his recent email communication.

Listen and watch as Mark Morris and Director Robert Cole chat about their friendship and working relationship in a conversation taped during a previous Mark Morris Dance Group residency.

The Fall residency of the Dance Group concludes with a perfect opportunity to see why the Bay Area has fallen in love with Mark Morris and his ensemble of charismatic performers. This showcase of dances set to scores by three great 20th-century composers includes the first West Coast performance of a new work set to Darius Milhaud's La Création du Monde (which will premiere in June 2005 at Tanglewood); All Fours, set to Bartók's String Quartet No. 4; and Morris' whimsical and celebratory Four Saints in Three Acts, with music by Virgil Thomson and libretto by Gertrude Stein. First produced by the English National Opera, when it was last seen at Cal Performances, the San Francisco Chronicle called Four Saints a "lovable, outrageously original and moving vision of this uniquely American opera...a giddy triumph."

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This presentation is made possible, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts

Program: new work set to Darius Milhaud's La Création du Monde; All Fours, set to Bartók's String Quartet No. 4; Four Saints in Three Acts, music by Virgil Thomson and libretto by Gertrude Stein.

PATRON INFORMATION

Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here.

Cal Performances Bay Bridge Construction Bart Shuttle: As work on the Bay Bridge during the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 1 is expected to potentially result in traffic delays in the late evening hours, Cal Performances has arranged for special buses to ferry our patrons directly to and from the performance halls from the downtown Berkeley BART station during these time periods. See the Cal Performances BART Shuttle Schedule for more details on this free service for our patrons.

Education and Community Events:
Film and Colloquium: Four Saints in Three Acts
Wed, Sept 28, 7:00 pm, Wheeler Auditorium
Following the screening of Steven Watson's documentary, Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism, the filmmaker will be joined by choreographer Mark Morris, musicologists and literature scholars, and Anthony Cascardi, Director of the Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley to discuss the landmark 1935 work by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson and its reincarnation in modern dance. Presented by Cal Performances in association with the Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley.

Artists links:
Official Mark Morris Dance Group site

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