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Smashed, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Smashed, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2018-2019 Borders and Boundaries
What do you get when you toss together nine jugglers, 80 apples, and four crockery sets? “Smashed,” a tea party you’ll never forget, created by Gandini Juggling, the thinking person’s jugglers. Nine well-dressed, perfectly respectable young people take the stage and, under the guise of a quaint afternoon tea, engage in the dark art of juggling. Inspired by the work of Pina Bausch, the Gandinis display a virtuosic blend of skills, precision, and theatricality that leaves the audience breathless, while the performers remain as cool as cucumber sandwiches. Created in 1992 by renowned juggler Sean Gandini and champion gymnast Kati …
Cut The Sky, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Cut The Sky, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2018-2019 Borders and Boundaries
Is it a rock concert? Modern dance? A plea for environmental action and the rights of Indigenous peoples? Cut the Sky by Marrugeku, Australia’s preeminent dance theater ensemble of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, is all three. As soul singer Ngaire belts out tunes ranging from Nick Cave to Buffalo Springfield Australian “post-soul” music, Marrugeku’s “incredibly expressive and visceral” dancers (The Guardian) form a band of climate change refugees struggling to survive another extreme weather event. Moving backward and forward in time, Cut the Sky meditates on humanity’s frailty in the face of its own actions.
Field, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Field, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2018-2019 Borders and Boundaries
Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times calls choreographer Liz Gerring’s mind, “warmly modernist: scientific but also passionately and infectiously in love with movement.” Gerring returns to the Kasser with “field,” the third in a trilogy of works created in collaboration with composer Michael J. Schumacher and designer Robert Wierzel, all commissioned and produced by Peak Performances. In Field, Gerring and her team conceive a place in which the elements — movement, sound, and light — combine to envelope and engage the audience, and where her magnificent dancers test their the physical limits.
Thank You For Coming : Attendance And Play, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Thank You For Coming : Attendance And Play, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2018-2019 Borders and Boundaries
Faye Driscoll is an award-winning choreographer and director whose work has been described as “creative, awkward, hilarious, goofy, surprising, rowdy, randy, chaotic, and sweet.” (Berkshire Eagle) Thank You for Coming is her playful, moving, mind-boggling trilogy about “how we are all wrapped up in each other, whether we like it or not.” In October, see the first two parts of the trilogy; then come back in April for the world premiere of the trilogy’s final installation.
The National Anthems : Music Of Lang, Shaw And Hearne, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
The National Anthems : Music Of Lang, Shaw And Hearne, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2018-2019 Borders and Boundaries
Where does patriotism end and nationalism begin? Are there universal values that transcend national borders? The Crossing, hailed as an “ardently angelic” chamber choir by The Los Angeles Times, considers these difficult questions with works by three powerhouse composers: Pulitzer Prize winners David Lang and Caroline Shaw and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ted Hearne. The strings players of ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) magnify the impact of this stirring and timely concert.
All Beethoven : Celebrating The Shanghai Quartet’S 35th Anniversary, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
All Beethoven : Celebrating The Shanghai Quartet’S 35th Anniversary, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2018-2019 Borders and Boundaries
Renowned for its passionate musicality, impressive technique, and distinctive blend of styles, the Shanghai Quartet has become one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles. The “utterly sublime” (The New York Times) ensemble returns for two enchanting engagements. The Shanghai Quartet is the quartet-in-residence at Montclair State University’s Cali School of Music.
Hatuey : Memory Of Fire, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Hatuey : Memory Of Fire, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2018-2019 Borders and Boundaries
HATUEY: Memory of Fire is a soaring Cuban-Yiddish opera, a love story set in a Havana nightclub in 1931. Oscar, a young Jewish writer who escaped the pogroms in the Ukraine to make a new home in Cuba, falls in love with Tinima, a beautiful singer and passionate revolutionary of Taino descent. As Oscar pens an epic poem about Cuba’s legendary 16th century freedom fighter, Hatuey, Tinima draws him into her fight against the corrupt Machado regime. This vibrant fusion of Afro-Cuban and Yiddish music and culture is also a powerful celebration of freedom performed in English, Yiddish, and Spanish …