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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 …
2017-2018 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2017-2018 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2017-2018 Women Innovators in the Performing Arts
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Spinning, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Spinning, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2017-2018 Women Innovators in the Performing Arts
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe (“Anthracite Fields,” 2015) and “cello goddess” (The New Yorker) Maya Beiser honor the essential labor of spinning thread. “Spinning” celebrates the work once performed by hand by women. Music has long been a vital part of the craft — both as a propelling force and as a distraction. To pay homage to the human dignity of this work, Wolfe and Beiser create a sonic universe for three cellos and voice performed by Beiser with Melody Giron and Lavena Johanson featuring multimedia projections imagined by the innovative artist Laurie Olinder. In Beiser’s words, “I found in …
Esta Breve Tragedia De La Carne, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Esta Breve Tragedia De La Carne, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2017-2018 Women Innovators in the Performing Arts
With Esta Breve Tragedia de la Carne (This Brief Tragedy of the Flesh), Peak Performances introduces audiences to the singular work of the confrontational Spanish writer, director and performance artist Angélica Liddell. All the major European festivals – d’Avignon and d’Automne in France, Vie in Italy, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne in Switzerland – embrace Liddell with the adoration usually reserved for Romeo Castellucci and Robert Wilson. Esta Breve Tragedia epitomizes her willingness to put herself and her performers through intense physical challenges to explore politics and the human condition. Here she immerses herself in Emily Dickinson, who spent much of her life …
M Stabat Mater, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
M Stabat Mater, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2017-2018 Women Innovators in the Performing Arts
“M”is the most common sound in the word for “mother” in languages all over the world. In this stunning tribute to motherhood, contemporary dance, set to baroque music, probes its joys and sorrows. While pregnant with her third child, emerging Israeli choreographer Inbal Oshman found inspiration in Pergolesi’s version of Stabat Mater, the 13th-century hymn about Mary’s vigil at the foot of the cross. Oshman’s dance explores the vulnerability and tenderness required of mothers, and the strength and ferocity that come with the territory. She borrows from the mythological mothers of history, including the Mary of Christianity, the dark and …
Leonora And Alejandro : La Maga Y El Maestro, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Leonora And Alejandro : La Maga Y El Maestro, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2017-2018 Women Innovators in the Performing Arts
In 2016, Stacy Klein and her Double Edge Theatre dazzled Peak audiences with their acclaimed, kaleidoscopic The Grand Parade (of the 20th Century). They return in 2018 with the world premiere of Leonora and Alejandro: La Maga y el Maestro, a fantasia on the relationship between two remarkable artists: the Mexican painter, writer and feminist Leonora Carrington and the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. Drawing on the music, dance and magic realism of Latin American culture, Double Edge’s new project promises to be challenging, provocative and beautiful.
Ink, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Ink, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2017-2018 Women Innovators in the Performing Arts
Award-winning choreographer and TED Fellow Camille A. Brown brings her company and its irresistible energy to Peak Performances. ink, the final installation of her dance trilogy about culture, race, and identity, celebrates the rituals, gestural vocabulary, and traditions of the African diaspora while examining the culture of Black life that is often appropriated, rewritten or silenced. Using the rhythms and sounds of traditional African music mixed with blues, hip-hop, jazz, and swing, ink travels through time from the abolitionist movement to the Civil Rights struggle, from the Black Power movement to the emergence of hip-hop. Through self-empowerment, Black love, brotherhood, …
College Of The Arts 18/19 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music
College Of The Arts 18/19 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music
2018-2019
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2018-2019 Peak Journal, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University, Claudia La Rocco
2018-2019 Peak Journal, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University, Claudia La Rocco
PEAK Journals
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