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Swim, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Mar 2015

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

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

Performance pioneer Robert Whitman is always at the vanguard of theater and art. With Swim, he creates an enchanting, thrillingly inventive new work that expands and heightens the theater experience by creating a rich environment of sound, movement, smells, and activities, in which the visual is only one part of the experience. According to Whitman, “an image, an object, a performer, or an action may not be seen, but it can be heard; it can be smelled; it can be perceived and felt; and in this shared experience the audience, sighted and blind, can be brought into a single community.”

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Rocco, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Feb 2015

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

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

In the exuberant ROCCO, choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten transform the Alexander Kasser Theater stage into a boxing ring, where every seat is ringside. Dancers become boxers in a high-stakes match, challenging each other with punches and strikes, fast footwork and ingenious tactics. Inspired by the classic Italian film Rocco & His Brothers, ROCCO depicts brotherly love and the struggle for a better life with dazzling physical virtuosity.

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Shanghai Quartet, Du Yun | Works By Beethoven, Ravel, And Du Yun, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Feb 2015

Shanghai Quartet, Du Yun | Works By Beethoven, Ravel, And Du Yun, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

The New York Times called Shanghai Quartet’s performance of the Ravel String Quartet in F Major “passionate…driven, elegant and nuanced.” In this program, the Quartet pairs it with Beethoven’s String Quartet no. 12 in E-flat Major, op. 127, and the world premiere of a new work by acclaimed young composer Du Yun. Tentatively titled Tattooed in Snow, the new work is inspired by the temporary and fragile crystallization of art in nature and in space, as well as by chant and poetry.

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American Contemporary Music Ensemble (Acme) And Roomful Of Teeth, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Feb 2015

American Contemporary Music Ensemble (Acme) And Roomful Of Teeth, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

Ask Caroline Shaw – composer, violinist, vocalist, and now youngest-ever recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music – to program a concert for the two ensembles with which she performs, and what do you get? An incredible evening of music that celebrates the works of three breathtakingly original composers, including Shaw’s own Partita for 8 Voices, declared a “dazzling, emotionally generous take on a Baroque dance suite” by The New York Times; the world premiere of a new version of her multimedia tour de force, Ritornello, featuring elements of American hymnody and Baroque music; Gavin Bryars’ heartrending Jesus’ Blood Never …

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At The Same Time We Were Pointing A Finger At You..., Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jan 2015

At The Same Time We Were Pointing A Finger At You..., Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

Provocative South African choreographer Robyn Orlin returns to Peak Performances after the success of 2011’s exuberant Walking next to our shoes… For her latest work, she joins forces with Germaine Acogny’s famed Compagnie Jant-Bi, a touchstone of new and traditional African dance in Dakar, to investigate the charged and often taboo issue of the human body itself. Questioning standards of ugliness and beauty, illness and health, Orlin places the body itself at the heart of the debate, revealing the range of pressures to which it is subjected, especially in the African context.

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Npr’S From The Top Live With Host Christopher O’Riley, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Dec 2014

Npr’S From The Top Live With Host Christopher O’Riley, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

Concert pianist and Peak Performances favorite Christopher O’Riley returns with a live recording of NPR’s From the Top, which The Boston Globe called “an unpretentious mix of the ridiculous and the sublime…[Featuring] an entertaining, accessible and often inspirational mix of outstanding musical performances, informal interviews, skits and games, the show is a celebration of extraordinary musicians who happen to be teenagers leading fairly normal lives.” The whole family will enjoy seeing this beloved radio program come together on the stage of the Alexander Kasser Theater.

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Great Britten, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2014

Great Britten, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

Richard Alston, dubbed by The Times of London “our most musical choreographer,” makes a triumphant return to Peak Performances after the enormous success of his last visit, when The New York Times named Richard Alston Dance Company’s Unfinished Business the year’s best dance performance. The 2014 engagement includes the American premieres of two glorious new works created for the Benjamin Britten centenary, Rejoice in the Lamb and Holderlin Fragments along with the reprise of Unfinished Business(Duet) and 1994’s Illuminations, set to Britten’s song cycle based on poems by Rimbaud. Live music for this special performance is provided by rising star …

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Apropos, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2014

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

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

With trademark playfulness and wit, The Symptoms, Hungary’s premiere contemporary dance/theater company, ponders the critical questions of aging. When will I lose my virginity? Will I find work I love? How do I balance work with parenthood? Do I have enough money to retire? How long will I keep my looks? Will I ever have sex again? The Symptoms’ clear-eyed, kind-hearted response to our human vulnerabilities is poignant, funny, and brave. Don’t miss the American debut of this highly original troupe.

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Shanghai Quartet | Wu Han Quintets By Dvořák And Schumann, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2014

Shanghai Quartet | Wu Han Quintets By Dvořák And Schumann, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

The internationally-acclaimed Shanghai Quartet is joined by pianist Wu Han, artistic director of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and one of the most esteemed classical musicians in the world today, for a program including Dvořák’s ebullient, exuberant Second Piano Quintet, Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, op. 44, and Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major, op. 20, no. 4.

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Mind Out Of Matter By Scott Johnson, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2014

Mind Out Of Matter By Scott Johnson, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

What are the origins of religion and supernatural ideas in human consciousness and culture, and how do they evolve into our religious traditions? Groundbreaking composer Scott Johnson’s newest work, Mind Out of Matter, approaches this and other perennial questions of human existence with a lively, rock-infused musical sensibility. Inspired by the ideas of renowned philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, Johnson weaves Dennett’s recorded voice into a rich instrumental score performed by Alarm Will Sound, an adventurous 20-member band acclaimed by The New York Times as “one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene.”

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Healing Wars, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2014

Healing Wars, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

How do soldiers returning from the battlefield recover from their wounds? How do doctors and nurses heal the injuries these soldiers suffer, seen and unseen? Trailblazing choreographer Liz Lerman returns to Peak Performances with Healing Wars, a profoundly relevant and deeply moving new work. Through spoken word, video, and dance, Healing Wars reaches across the centuries to connect the modern wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the American Civil War. The ensemble of performers is joined onstage by a young Navy veteran whose presence personalizes the tribute that this brilliant, deftly nuanced production pays to all soldiers and healers, past …

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Imagining O, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2014

Imagining O, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

How better to celebrate the Kasser Theater’s 10th anniversary than with a world premiere that makes the entire facility its stage? In the latest devised work from maverick director and pioneering founder of The Performance Group Richard Schechner, nothing is off-limits as performers guide you through the space from stage to wings, dressing rooms to lobby. Imagining O – part theater, part dance, part installation art – investigates sexuality and artistry, abjection and power as imagined by Hamlet’s Ophelia, O from Pauline Réage’s Story of O, and the ensemble.

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2013-2014 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jun 2014

2013-2014 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

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Still Will Be Heard, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jun 2014

Still Will Be Heard, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

Still Will Be Heard is a portrait of two lives intertwined. During her father’s last years suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, singer/composer Liz Queler discovered a new and unexpected refuge in the words of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.Elements of folk, bluegrass, country, rock, and jazz breathe new life into Millay’s timeless poetry. The songs, interspersed with spoken word culled from the writings of both women, take us on a journey by turns dark, playful, fierce and beautiful. An on-stage company of actors and musicians brings these songs and stories to life, while scenic elements interweave archival images and video montages, …

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Swimming With My Mother, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University May 2014

Swimming With My Mother, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

A heartfelt journey for mothers and children of all ages, Swimming with My Mother tells the story of a boy who learns lifelong lessons from his mother, a swimming coach. Life passes in laps, things change and the boy teaches his mother to dance. As their own stories intertwine and swell like a rising tide, the bonds of familial love are revealed to the sultry tones of Nat King Cole. Performed by acclaimed Irish choreographer David Bolger and his 80-year-old mother Madge, this award-winning production is told with affectionate humor, and also includes a screening of Wildfire Films’ Deep End …

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Orlando, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Apr 2014

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

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

A transformative evening of theater, Orlando opens with the hero as a young man in Elizabethan England, and follows his transformations of fortune, love and even gender in thie multi-faceted, century-spanning quest for "life and a lover". A sensuous epic of self-discovery, Virgina Woolf's novel has been described as the most charming love letter in literature, relishing an era where opulence and hedonism were savored.

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Bullycide- Shanghai Quartet With Orion Weiss And Daxun Zhang, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Mar 2014

Bullycide- Shanghai Quartet With Orion Weiss And Daxun Zhang, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

The Shanghai Quartet is proud to present the Northeast premiere of David Del Tredici’s Bullycide, a new work written in memory of five gay teens who committed suicide, including Rutgers student Tyler Clementi. With elements that revolve around the number “5”, the piece serves as a passionate tribute to five young men who left too soon and to the lives that might have been.

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Rushes, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Mar 2014

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

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

Michael Gordon, maverick composer and founder of the iconic new music organization Bang on a Can, has brought together one of the most unorthodox ensembles imaginable. Best known for music with a driving intensity and power, Gordon’s Rushes pushes new boundaries and explores interweaving musical textures and timbres with this piece written for seven bassoons. Led by Dana Jessen, the Rushes Ensemble is poised to provide an entirely new way of experiencing the double reed.

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Atomos, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Mar 2014

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

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

Atomos is the newest full-length work by cutting-edge choreographer Wayne McGregor. Imagining the indivisible, order created through uncuttable structures and interwoven with an architectural manipulation of bodies, the newest piece from Wayne McGregor is performed by his ten dancers in McGregor’s unique style – sculptural, rigorous, jarring and hauntingly beautiful. Neo-classical ambient composers A Winged Victory For The Sullen play a new live score, with lighting from Lucy Carter, film by Ravi Deepres, and costumes designed by Studio XO whose groundbreaking wearable technologies and digital skins place them at the forefront of fashion and technology.

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Stardust, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Feb 2014

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

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

Stardust explores the evolving nature of intimacy in our technology-driven, furiously-paced world. Redefining the coming-of-age story for the electronic age, the evening-length piece follows an African American gay urban teenager who is present only by the emotionally laden tweets and text messages he sends. Dance, multimedia, and the music of Nat King Cole and d. Sabela Grimes combine to form an intensely personal journey of self-discovery.

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Aubade, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jan 2014

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

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

For his entire career, Douglas Dunn has done it his way – all the way. Now, witness his next surprising pivot forward. Aubade, his new dance/theater piece, is all about apprehending mortality and the unstoppable progress of time. All the senses engage with scenic and video design, music, and lyrics by noted artists Charles Atlas, Steven Taylor, and Anne Waldman, respectively. As if that wasn’t enough, Douglas Dunn’s amazing company expands to even greater numbers by casting six Montclair State College of the Arts dance students. The title refers to the classic “aubade”, the opposite of a serenade. At its …

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Darkness Is Your Candle, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Dec 2013

Darkness Is Your Candle, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

World music supergroup East of the River has a very different type of holiday concert in store this upcoming season. With a focus on the winter solstice, family, and new beginnings, Darkness Is Your Candle explores music of the Mediterranean, Balkans, Armenia, and the Middle East, presenting the earliest songs of those extraordinary cultures. Taking its name from the work of Persian poet Rumi, the program shifts from a lunar atmosphere in the first half of the program into rebirth and daylight in the second half, creating a unique and unforgettable musical journey for the New Year.

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Tragedy Of A Friendship, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Nov 2013

Tragedy Of A Friendship, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

Inspired by Richard Wagner’s 13 operatic masterpieces, Jan Fabre is putting his own shocking spin on the composer’s 200th birthday, documenting the friendship and dramatic feud between Wagner and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Racing from humor to horror across the span of Wagner’s works, the piece features extremely graphic imagery and standout vocal performances from tenor Hans Peter Janssens and soprano Lies Vandeweghe. In collaboration with writer Stefan Hertmans and German composer Moritz Eggert, Jan Fabre has constructed a stunning piece of art that is part opera, part theater, and not for the faint of heart.

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Motherland, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2013

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

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

Winding its way through airbrushed beauty, boob jobs and Botox, victim blaming, slut shaming, the might of motherhood and the challenge of childlessness, Motherland is a funny, moving show about having it all. With universal appeal and a potent mix of live music, theater, and dance, Motherland is a call to arms: one that raises a finger (guess which one) at the shallow hypocrisies of our time and asks “where are we now?”

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Shanghai Quartet With Miró Quartet, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2013

Shanghai Quartet With Miró Quartet, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

The Shanghai Quartet is celebrating their 30th anniversary with two concerts taking the group’s sound to new places. In the fall, the group joins forces with the Miró Quartet to become an octet supergroup, performing works by Shostakovich (Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11) and Mendelssohn (Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20). The highlight of the afternoon is the regional premiere of Dan Welcher’s Museon Polemos, described by the composer as “a ballet without dancers.”

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Open City, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2013

Open City, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

Vijay Iyer, one of the most celebrated young jazz pianists and composers of his generation, is thinking big with this world premiere concert event. Featuring two dozen musicians and artists, OPEN CITY will include spoken text performed live by rap artist Himanshu Suri and Teju Cole, whose 2012 award-winning novel of the same name inspired this wide-ranging work.

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Fold Here, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2013

Fold Here, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

Initially inspired by Raymond Carver’s short story Cathedral, in which a sightful man’s hand is guided by a blind man’s heart in drawing a cathedral, Fold Here unfolds in an implausible universe filled with empty cardboard boxes as the basic units of all existing matter. In pursuit of the boxes’ elusive essence, the performers explore the physical, sensorial, and spiritual properties of human beings–as parallel contents and containers of existence.

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Glacier, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2013

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

2013-2014 Raise the Bar

Liz Gerring’s glacier, a new dance work featuring an ever-evolving 360-degree soundscape by composer Michael J. Schumacher, explores the nature inside nature and sheds light on a raw, elemental state of existence. Over the past few years, Gerring’s unfettered physicality has garnered attention from audiences and critics alike. Her company’s signature style – athletic, precise action with an ever-rising, unstoppable momentum – is on full display in this, her largest-scale work to date.

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2012-2013 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jun 2013

2012-2013 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2012-2013 Exceptions Rule: No Compromise

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Landfall, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University May 2013

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

2012-2013 Exceptions Rule: No Compromise

Through genre-defying careers with similar philosophies on the invention of new music, it’s shocking that Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet have never collaborated before. All that will change in an electrifying season finale as artist/composer Laurie Anderson and the visionary Kronos Quartet perform a new evening-length piece in their very first collaboration. Composed by Anderson and arranged by Kronos Quartet, the piece will include written text and a dozen new songs that herald a new synthesis of sonic invention.

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