Berkeley Ballet's professional company Post:ballet launches its "Sweet Sixteen" Season with a compelling collection of multi-disciplinary collaborations that push the ballet envelope and pull together diverse artists, organizations, and communities.

Following a pair of free public performances at Salesforce Park on Saturday, September 7th, Post's 2024-25 Season officially kicks off at The Midway in SF with the return of our P:b Jam Fundraiser on October 3rd. P:b Jam will include a preview of Magma (Chapter Two) featuring choreography by Moscelyne ParkeHarrison and original music by dj.ari.b, as well as a sneak peek into Blueprints of being, Post's new collaboration with AXIS Dance Company.

On October 4th, Summer (Artistic Director Robin Dekkers' short film collaboration with Inner Child Productions and cinematographer/editor Ben Tarquin) will open the SF Dance Film Festival at Lucasfilm Premiere Theater. Dekkers' short film rewilding (featuring Berkeley Ballet's Dance for PD® program and an original score by Terry Riley and The Living Earth Show) will be presented at the Festival on October 20th at the Brava Theater.

On October 11th-13th, Post heads to SF's ODC Theater for an original collaboration with AXIS Dance Company, Blueprints of being by choreographer Jorge Crecis, as part of AXIS' Home Season Ecos. AXIS is a professional company for dancers with and without disabilities and shares space with Post at Berkeley Ballet's studios. In addition to this integrated work featuring artists from both companies, Crecis will create stand-alone versions of the work (Blueprints for AXIS and of being for Post) so that both companies may present the work on future programs independently.

On December 7th and 8th, Post company dancers will guest in Berkeley Ballet's presentation of Robin Dekkers' Nutcracker at Oakland's Scottish Rite Center. This acclaimed reimagination of the classic Nutcracker ballet is both a magical performance for audiences of all ages and a meaningful contribution to the evolution of ballet in the 21st century.

On January 22nd-26th, Post:ballet's highly anticipated immersive production Magma will be unveiled at The Midway in SF. This new evening-length work by Resident Choreographer and Associate Artistic Director Moscelyne ParkeHarrison uses the myth of Cassandra, who was able to see the future but was cursed so that no one would believe her, as a jumping point for a contemporary reflection on our relationship to truth, ignorance, and entropy in the face of climate chaos, social and political upheaval, and economic collapse. Rather than an apocalyptic narrative, Magma instead revels in the sublime beauty of our shared humanity in even the darkest of times.

Your tax-deductible donation in support of our 2024-25 Season New Work Fund, together with the generosity of our foundational sponsors and audiences across the Bay Area, will help us ensure that our artists are paid equitably for their work, that our creative endeavors are accessible to as many folks as possible, and that our organization continues to create original, multi-disciplinary collaborations that are “inventive, focused, sophisticated, and anything but risk averse” (SF Chronicle).

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*Post:ballet dancers Babatunji and Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, photo by Maximillian Tortoriello and Ben Warner