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Anna Halprin: Parades and Changes
How times change. When choreographer Anna Halprin’s company performed Parades and Changes in New York in 1967, its nude sequences resulted in a summons for her arrest. When the dancers performed it at the opening of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 1970, the nudity was simply groovy. And Friday through Sunday, Feb. 15-17, when 92-year-old Halprin restages it at the museum, it will be the end of an era — its last-ever performances and a postmodern ritual honoring both the piece and the building, which will close in 2015. Dancers from around the globe will convene to perform the work, which is loosely choreographed around mundane tasks like unrolling sheets of plastic, dressing, and, it goes without saying, undressing. Original composer Morton Subotnick plays the score live, and a gallery exhibition about Parades and Changes runs through April 21. 7:30 p.m.; $7 Fri., included with museum admission Sat.-Sun. 510-642-0808 or BAMPFA.Berkeley.edu — Claudia Bauer
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Phil Lapsley
Well before the word “Internet” entered the popular lexicon, the incredibly elaborate technological system capable of connecting people across land and water — the world’s largest machine — was the telephone system. And although it was also well before the term “hacker” meant much to anybody, telephones ended up inadvertently producing a motley crew of pranksters who sought to outsmart the system: the proto-hackers who called themselves the “phone phreaks.” Join engineer, hacker, and author Phil Lapsley at Diesel on Friday, Feb. 15, as he discusses his new book, Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell. 7 p.m., free. DieselBookstore.com — Azeen Ghorayshi
