Post:ballet

Re:generate is in less than one month! Join Babatunji , Moscelyne ParkeHarrison , Colin Frederick , Robin Dekkers , and Ja’Moon Jones for a process based workshop centered on ‘what’s next’ in the field of dance. Each choreographer will lead a day at the workshop, guiding participants through a warm up class and their creative process.

July 7-11 at
Register by July 1.
Email [email protected] with CV, Reel, and Resume to be considered for the program.
Link in bio for more info.

Babatunji and Ja’Moon in Moscelyne’s Magma, photographed by

Announcing Re:generate Professional Dancer Workshop 2025

✨Link in Bio for more info and to apply!

Refine your skills, revitalize your imagination, and renew your passion for movement with the next generation of choreographers at a new week-long intensive, Monday, July 7– Friday, July 11 at the Berkeley Ballet studios. Designed to connect professional dancers with choreographers to collectively explore “what’s next” in the field of dance, Re:generate will be led by five Bay Area-based choreographers: Babatunji, Robin Dekkers, Colin Frederick, Ja’Moon Jones, and Moscelyne ParkeHarrison.

Dancers aged 18+ with post-secondary dance education and/or professional dance experience are invited to apply by Tuesday, July 1, 2025 to be considered for this intensive; dancers will be invited on a rolling basis, and please feel welcome to contact us with additional questions.

Thank you Larissa Archer for a beautiful article on Post:ballet and our final performance, Magma. Link in bio to read the full article.

Images by Tricia Cronin

Post:ballet’s final show as a company, and the closing night of Magma is SOLD OUT.
Thank you for your support! We can’t wait to share Magma with you one last time.

Colin Frederick and Isaac Bates Vinueza in ‘acceptance duet’ from Magmq Chapter 3, photo by

2 more chances to catch Magma!

💥Saturday Jan 25th at 8pm with an after party DJ’d live by .dj
💥Sunday Jan 26th at 6pm, Post:ballet’s final performance.

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and in ‘fight or flight duet’ from Magma

Join us tonight at the Midway for Magma night 2 and a special afterparty DJ set with Del!

Tickets in bio.
Photo by Tricia Cronin

💥 It’s opening night 💥

Use code FriendofDance for 25% off your tickets.

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Magma premieres tomorrow.
This is it.

Use code FriendofDance for 25% off rush tickets to our opening “Bay Area Dance Community Night” tomorrow, Thursday 1/23

Magma Performer Spotlight: Crystaldawn Bell

CRYSTALDAWN BELL (she/they) earned her BFA from California Institute of the Arts. She has worked with Robert Moses’ KIN, Labayen Dance/SF, Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers, Stranger Lover Dreamer, Paufve Dance, Nina Haft & Co, Todd Eckert, Garrett + Moulton Productions, and ODC. She received an Isadora Duncan Award (Izzie) for “Outstanding Achievement in Performance-Ensemble” and has been nominated on three other occasions for “Outstanding Performance-Individual.” Crystaldawn was recognized as a Refinery 29: 30 under 30 and was the recipient of the Aninstantia Grant. In addition to her work with Post:ballet, she is currently working with EIGHT/MOVES. Crystaldawn is on faculty at Saint Mary’s College of California and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center.
Photo by Natalia Perez, video by Loren Robertson Productions

Magma Collaborator Spotlight: Pakela Newalu-Gomes*

PAKELA NEWALU-GOMES (they/them) began their dance training at age twelve at a local studio on O’ahu, Hawai’i. They later attended Dominican University of California, where they received their B.F.A. in Dance. During their studies, .png had the opportunity to work with Gregory Dawson’s dawsondancesf Bear Graham’s James Graham Dance Theater. Upon graduating, they joined Contemporary West Dance
Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pakela is currently based in Berkeley and is excited to be working with Post:ballet!
*Understudy and Post:ballet Apprentice

Magma Performer Spotlight: Isaac Bates-Vinueza

ISAAC BATES - VINUEZA (he/him) lives in Berkeley, CA. He has danced with Sacramento Ballet, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, and LED Boise, and currently dances with Post:Ballet and SFDanceworks. He made his professional choreographic debut in 2022 at Sacramento Ballet, and that same year, was awarded the Ann and Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow. Isaac is also pursuing a degree in English at UC Berkeley.
Photo and video by Clare Schweitzer