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2016-2017 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University May 2017

2016-2017 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2016-2017 Break the Mold

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Tierra Misteriosa, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University May 2017

Tierra Misteriosa, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2016-2017 Break the Mold

In Tierra Misteriosa (Mysterious Land), Astrid Hadad offers her take on hundreds of years of history, from Tenochtitlan, the ancient capital of the Aztec empire, to the Mexico of today, about which she offers penetrating insight with a lot of humor. She says, “I think it’s necessary to keep the spark of humor, the depth of humor, because otherwise life is not worth living.”


Doug Elkins Choreography, Etc, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Apr 2017

Doug Elkins Choreography, Etc, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2016-2017 Break the Mold

doug elkins choreography, etc. was established in summer 2009 as a way to brand independent dance, theater, and teaching projects for Doug Elkins. The umbrella has allowed for the creation of three award-winning works: Fräulein Maria, a loving deconstruction of The Sound of Music that began at DANCE NOW Joe’s Pub in 2006 and, with the addition of theater directors Barbara Karger and Michael Preston, toured throughout North America from 2009 to 2012; Mo(or)town/Redux, a movement conversation with Shakespeare’s Othello and José Limón’s seminal The Moor’s Pavane set to a Motown-inspired score (named by Alastair Macaulay of the New York …


Howl Quixote, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Mar 2017

Howl Quixote, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2016-2017 Break the Mold

Quixote is an evening‐length, memorized, music-­theatre-­dance piece performed by the interdisciplinary ensemble, HOWL, that Kirsten and DeChiazza founded to continue the vein of collaborative theater-work they began together with Colombine's Paradise Theatre. HOWL features the four members of Sandbox Percussion Quartet, as well as vocal artists Lindsay Kesselman, Hai-Ting Chinn, and Kirsten Sollek. The work was developed through a collaborative process in a series of workshops spanning two years, giving Kirsten and DeChiazza an opportunity to sharpen, deepen, and extend their integrated expressive language. Quixote was commissioned, produced, and developed under the auspices of Peak Performances at Montclair State University …


Richard Alston Dance Company With Shanghai Quartet & Repast Baroque Ensemble, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Feb 2017

Richard Alston Dance Company With Shanghai Quartet & Repast Baroque Ensemble, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2016-2017 Break the Mold

Richard Alston Dance Company is celebrating its 22nd anniversary this year. Since its founding in 1994, the Company has become one of the United Kingdom’s most avidly followed contemporary dance companies, performing the work of its artistic director, Richard Alston, and associate choreographer, Martin Lawrance.


See You Later, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Nov 2016

See You Later, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2016-2017 Break the Mold

Inspired by recently deceased Eduardo Galeano’s writings, including “History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later,’” this staged music performance explores the juxtaposition of power, truth, corruption, and desperation through the contrasting work of composers Peter Garland, David T. Little, and Gavin Bryars.


The Plough And The Stars, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2016

The Plough And The Stars, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2016-2017 Break the Mold

Th' time is rotten ripe for revolution. Set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising, The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by the idealism of the time. The residents of a Dublin tenement shelter from the violence that sweeps through the city’s streets. A revolution that will shape the country’s future rages around them. What kind of Ireland awaits them? The Plough and the Stars was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1926. The audience rioted. Now regarded as a masterpiece, this provocative play is an essential part of our understanding of …


Figure A Sea, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2016

Figure A Sea, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2016-2017 Break the Mold

“Figure a Sea is a meditation on seeing. Seeing music, fleeting incidences and synchronicities, unbelievable unexpectedness and, most surprising seeing the unnamable. It is a space for seeing oneself seeing”, says Deborah Hay


The Forgotten//L’Oublié(E), Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2016

The Forgotten//L’Oublié(E), Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2016-2017 Break the Mold

Here begins a kind of tale: a woman is at the bedside of an unconscious man. The years go by. One day, she decides to go looking for him. Her perilous quest then becomes an initiatory course, in which reality is gradually contaminated by the fantastic. This ambitious tale plunges us into a dreamlike and phantasmagorical universe in which questions of mourning, of surpassing oneself, of filial ties or crossed destinies are evoked. In this particularly physical theatre of images, the fundamentals of the universe developed since then by Raphaëlle Boitel are established: a hybrid vocabulary imbued with circus material, …