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Passport, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Apr 2011

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

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Have you ever wanted to be in Prune Flat, 1965 Sun, 2007 two places at once? For Robert Whitman such a feat is no sooner imagined than done. Take two sites (66 miles apart) and one artist directing simultaneous performances and you have Whitman on his game, expanding the possibilities of artists’ theater. In a co-performance with the Dia Art Foundation at Beacon, NY, Passport illustrates the “opening ourselves to the world in which we live” scripture handed down by the artists and engineers of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). The components of his novel alchemy—a horse, a forklift, …

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Shanghai Quartet, Mozart Quartet K. 465 Dissonance, Bartok Quartet No. 6, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Apr 2011

Shanghai Quartet, Mozart Quartet K. 465 Dissonance, Bartok Quartet No. 6, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

How does the forgotten become the familiar? A ll you need to do is hear the work of English composer Frank Bridge (1879–1941). Bridge wrote beguiling music— Novelletten great example is a —that suf fered a loss of public as a result of World War II but is now having a deserved resurgence. Bridge mentored many artists, most notably Benjamin Britten. This stellar program includes Mozart’s Quartet K. 465 “Dissonance” and Bartok’s Quartet no. 6.

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The Matter Of Origins, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Mar 2011

The Matter Of Origins, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Did you believe the world would implode on the day CERN’s Large Hadron Collider revved up? Liz Lerman’s new work explores the physics of beginnings and why afternoon tea and chocolate cake may be the reason we live in dread of the apocalypse. When J. Robert Oppenheimer (the American Prometheus) took a break from harnessing energy for mass destruction, he had tea and cake with Edith Warner, who lived near Los Alamos. Liz Lerman has made a distinguished career of bringing scientific elements together with the poetry of the mind (Ferocious Beauty: Genome). Act I travels from Marie Curie’s lab …

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Walking Next To Our Shoes…, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Feb 2011

Walking Next To Our Shoes…, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Does Ladysmith Black Mambazo send chills up your spine? Paul Simon’s album Graceland brought South Africa’s musical roots to Western pop culture. And it was Athol Fugard who exposed its dramatic wisdom. Now comes another South African auteur taking the pulse of her country’s complex social reality. Robyn Orlin is known for work that can be subversive, outrageous, provocatively humorous, and visually arresting. From her early days as a choreographer during the Apartheid era, Orlin has made a career of confronting taboo subjects with a heightened, vaudevillian theatricality that aims to test and redefine ideas about South African performance.

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The Zafir Project, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Feb 2011

The Zafir Project, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

What do you consider barrier busting? In taking stock of chamber music in America, use the striking career of Imani Winds as your benchmark. Conventional chamber music was jolted out of its safe haven when this Grammy-nominated ensemble brought its eclectic style to the f ield. To illustrate Imani’s commitment to extending the European canon, the group invited Simon Shaheen, the acclaimed Palestinian óud and violin artist, to compose Zafir (“a gentle breath”).

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Carter Brey & Christopher O’Riley, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Feb 2011

Carter Brey & Christopher O’Riley, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Is sublime and unexpected your cup of tea? The renowned pianist Christopher O’Riley returns to Peak Performances in a duo program with Carter Brey, the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic. Together they will play Bach’s Sonata in G minor for viola da gamba and keyboard; Edvard Grieg’s Sonata in A minor, op. 36, for cello and piano; plus Justin Dello Joio’s Due per Due, composed for Mr. Brey, which will have its regional premiere.

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Prometheus-Landscape Ii, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jan 2011

Prometheus-Landscape Ii, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Are you searching for a hero to transform the mundane intothe magical? Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus to liberate humanity and had his liver eaten daily for his trouble, might give our need for a hero new life. Jan Fabre has an international reputation for provocative theater. In Fabre’s universe, you find an artist who wears humankind’s rage on his sleeve. Stealing enlightenment from the gods to enhance daily life has, in the 21st century, consequences. How will Aeschylus’s classic be rendered once torn from Fabre’s active imagination? For certain, his Prometheus will be an everyman who seeks to …

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Town And Country, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Nov 2010

Town And Country, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Did you know Baroque was the new music of the 17th century? In the 21st century, it is the fastest growing niche in the classical music business. The dynamically engaging ensemble REBEL returns to the Alexander Kasser Theater with a specially crafted program featuring works by both well-known and lesser-known composers. In this remarkable musical journey, REBEL presents works by composers of vastly different backgrounds–Handel from the royal city of London; Telemann from the urban center of Hamburg; and Scheiffelhut, Fischer, and Schmierer from the country courts of southern Germany–in an exciting and rare arrangement of compositions, all of which …

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Bringing Down The Stars And Moving Them Around, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Nov 2010

Bringing Down The Stars And Moving Them Around, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Have you heard the old saying: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts? Not this time! Open your ears! The most inventive percussion ensemble in America performs one of the giant works of the 20th century. Pleiades by Greek composer Iannis Xenakis is a timeless, polyrhythmic composition considered to be a masterpiece and test of will for those who dare undertake it in performance. Joining So¯ Percussion to complete the tour-de-force experience will be Todd Meehan and Douglas Perkins. Bonus points awarded for concert ingenuity: also on the program is Proximity by Turkish composer Cenk Ergün, whose use of electronic tonalities is …

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Dark Matters, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2010

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

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Do you wish you could be anonymous in our very public world? Crystal Pite covers the faces and hands of her dancers in an effort to find purity and grace in their anonymity, while noting that our most powerful universal force is noticeably invisible. Dark matter comprises approximately 96% of the observable universe, affecting the speed, structure, and evolution of galaxies, yet it is essentially unknown. Dark Matters invites its audience into a mysterious world bounded only by time, space, and object. Puppetry, new music, and dance commingle in original and evocative configurations, making Dark Matters a signature work by …

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Double Vision, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2010

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

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Did you ever hope to see the world anew when looking through a crystal prism? Double Vision offers a similar experience, only the entire stage becomes the optical illusion. An interdisciplinary encounter created by an acclaimed choreographer and world-class architects, Double Vision animates the stage in paradoxical ways. The ephemeral nature of Carolyn Carlson’s dance is exposed by Electronic Shadow (architect Naziha Mestaoui and media artist Yacine Aït Kaci). Blurring the distinction between illusion and reality, Double Vision leaves a convincing argument for the existence of a parallel universe.

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Young Concert Artists, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2010

Young Concert Artists, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Does discovering young talent trained in the classical canon give you a thrill? Join us to hear the best of the best. Young Concert Artists (YCA) is a seminal force in the performance field. Since 1961, YCA has been dedicated to launching the careers of exceptional, but unknown, young musicians from around the world. The performers in this special concert are all recipients of the Alexander Kasza-Kasser prize, awarded annually by YCA to its most promising discoveries. With YCA’s track record, one or all of these artists could be the next Lang Lang, Richard Stoltzman, or Renée Fleming! The concert …

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Jet Lag, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2010

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

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

In 1998 Marianne Weems and The Builders Association, in collaboration with the architects/media artists Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, presented JET LAG, a cross-media project that was ahead of its time. JET LAG is based on two overlapping true stories about eccentric individuals who manipulated time and space, turning their travels into a new kind of escape. In 1969 an ambitious sailor set out on a round-the-world sailboat race only to discover that he could “win” by simply sending radio reports of his false travel times while sailing in circles off the coast of South America. Then, over the course …

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Shanghai Quartet With Guest Artist Wu Man, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2010

Shanghai Quartet With Guest Artist Wu Man, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Does Montclair State’s resident string quartet ever rest on its laurels? Banish the thought. The Shanghai Quartet and celebrated pipa virtuoso Wu Man perform the world premiere of Lei Liang’s Five Seasons, commissioned by the Quartet. The program also includes Beethoven’s Quartet op. 18, no. 3; Schumann’s Quartet op. 41, no.1; and Wang Huiran’s “Dance of the Yi People,” performed on the pipa.

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Everywhere Is The Best Seat: Disembodied Instruments, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2010

Everywhere Is The Best Seat: Disembodied Instruments, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

This 60-minute performance set within Christopher Janney’s 36-column sound and light installation Everywhere Is the Best Seat will be a unique experiment in live and MIDI-triggered sounds. Moving from environmental music to R&B and jazz, Janney and friends create an immersive musical experience, exploring the “hidden music” of sound as part of and detached from the instruments and performers who make them. Special guests include Dave Revels and Jimmy Hayes of The Persuasions, Stan Strickland, Wes Wirth, Jerry Leake, and Eddie Grenga.

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Here There Be Dragons, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2010

Here There Be Dragons, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

What makes a “new classical” band stand out? C omposition chops and entrepreneurial hustle. Missy Mazzoli’s all-female quintet Victoire personifies a dreamy post-rock sensibility. William Brittelle’s Television Landscape embraces a big-band sonic eclecticism. And the aggressively creative NOW Ensemble, featuring compositions by Judd Greenstein, defines 21st-century chamber music. These bands have their act together!

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2009-2010 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jan 2009

2009-2010 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2009-2010 Ever-adventurous

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2008-2009 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jan 2008

2008-2009 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2008-2009 Indispensable

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2007-2008 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jan 2007

2007-2008 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2007-2008 Premieres

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A Tragic Farce: Revolutionary Women In Elizabeth Inchbald’S The Massacre And European Drama, Wendy Nielsen Aug 2006

A Tragic Farce: Revolutionary Women In Elizabeth Inchbald’S The Massacre And European Drama, Wendy Nielsen

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This essay examines Elizabeth Inchbald’s treatment of French Revolutionary women and relationship to European drama in order to appreciate the implications of tragic writing for British women playwrights. Focusing on Inchbald’s connections to French culture and English theater in late 1792 and early 1793 elucidates the self‐censoring and generic conventions of her only tragedy, The Massacre. Events in France like the September Massacres unsettled Burkean notions of femininity and raised the possibility of female violence. This mixing of traditional gender characteristics resembles discourse about Inchbald’s dramas as neither tragic, comic, nor tragicomic. The genre of tragic farce describes Inchbald’s revisions …

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2006-2007 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jan 2006

2006-2007 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2006-2007 To Survive the New Age of Conformity

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2005-2006 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jan 2005

2005-2006 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2005-2006 Celebrating the Creative Voice

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