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The Pirates Of Penzance, Department Of Theatre And Dance
The Pirates Of Penzance, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Fall 2022
“The Pirates of Penzance” is a comic opera written by W.S Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan that concerns Fredric, a young apprentice who is released from a band of Pirates. He then later meets the daughter of Major-General Stanley and falls in love. However, a revelation is made, and he must battle not only his sense of duty to his apprenticeship and the Pirates but to his new love. In this modern, and explorative telling of the opera, we put aside gender to challenge the notion of masculinity and femininity.
Kaleidoscope Concert, John J. Cali School Of Music
Kaleidoscope Concert, John J. Cali School Of Music
2022-2023
A nonstop extravaganza celebrating the Cali School's talented students and faculty, Kaleidoscope features the Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, Chorale, University Singers, Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, and auditioned chamber and solo artists.
Prince Hamlet, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Prince Hamlet, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2022-2023 Artists Invoke the Powers of Community as They Bring Audiences Into Fiery, Mysterious, Illuminating Visions of Our World
Ravi Jain’s remixed, reimagined, and bilingual Prince Hamlet features a cross-cultural, gender-bent cast – challenging traditional ideas of who can tell this story. Interweaving Shakespeare’s spoken text with heightened and poetic American Sign Language, this groundbreaking production creates a visually stunning retelling for both hearing and Deaf audiences. You’ve never experienced Hamlet like this before.
Nehanda, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Nehanda, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2022-2023 Artists Invoke the Powers of Community as They Bring Audiences Into Fiery, Mysterious, Illuminating Visions of Our World
1890, Cecil John Rhodes, then Prime Minister of Cape Colonies, advanced the Union Jack past the Limpopo River, making way for further industrial development and encouraging colonialism and immigration. Three years later, these encounters resulted in conflicts with the Ndebele people residing in modern-day Zimbabwe. Again in 1896, led by the Shona, Africans took up arms against these European invaders. It took 94 years to finally overthrow the British; however, the work that began in 1896 continues today.
Curriculum Ii, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Curriculum Ii, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2021-2022 Join Us in Engaging with the Imaginations of Unparalleled Visionaries
The genesis of the series of works entitled Curriculum came from the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe’s ideas around archive and curriculum. Curriculum I began with exploring the rich archive of Bill T. Jones’s movement phrases which are mostly non-theatrical, non-psychological, non-narrative, all made with the intention of clarity and form. Running parallel to and in juxtaposition with this formal exploration is a ticker tape of topical concerns informed by the 24-hour news cycle: climate change, racial violence, identity politics, reparations, decolonization. Mbembe might categorize these concerns as “planetary curriculum.” Curriculum I was set to premiere at the Holland Festival in …
Hotel Paradiso, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Hotel Paradiso, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2021-2022 Join Us in Engaging with the Imaginations of Unparalleled Visionaries
Using clowning, acrobatics, magic, and improvisation, Familie Flöz makes its highly anticipated U.S. debut after delighting European audiences for more than 20 years with captivating theatrical experiences. Strange things happen in Hotel Paradiso, a comedic thriller chock full of eccentric characters including a pajama-wearing front-desk clerk, a kleptomaniacal maid, and a cook who chops up more than just pork. Set in a family-run Alpine resort, this fairy tale full of secrets is created by a Berlin-based troupe known worldwide for works that are “wordless and yet somehow so expressive, full of yearning and yet also filled with joy.” -The Guardian
Anωnymo, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Anωnymo, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2022-2023 Artists Invoke the Powers of Community as They Bring Audiences Into Fiery, Mysterious, Illuminating Visions of Our World
Greek choreographer Tzeni Argyriou’s ANΩNYMO draws from traditional folk dances from all over the world to articulate the social disconnect that has become all too familiar in recent times. The result is a celebration of human connection and shared joy. A journey back to a time when art was not something created by particular, named individuals but a practice that brought people – and kept communities – together. ANΩNYMO observes our lives through collective body memory, the experience of passing traditional dances on, and their complete transformation into a contemporary movement idiom.
Into The Woods, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Into The Woods, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Spring 2022
“…and they live happily ever after.” So end all of our most beloved fairy tales; but what if there was a different “after” after the “ever after”? Are we always happy with what we get? Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s most acclaimed musical explores what happens when dreams come true, wishes are granted, and spells are broken. With soaring music, funny dialogue, and unexpected twists and turns, Into the Woods at MSU promises a night of mystery, magic, humor, and surprise. At a time when we are beginning to come out of our homes, we invite you Into the Woods.
Smashed2, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Smashed2, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2021-2022 Join Us in Engaging with the Imaginations of Unparalleled Visionaries
The dark art of juggling revisited. 9 Performers, 80 Oranges, 7 Watermelons. THIS IS Smashed2. In Gandini Juggling’s hit Smashed, which made its US Premiere at PEAK Performances, the manipulation of forbidden fruit shrewdly explored the strained relations between seven men and two women—and kindly flayed traditions of juggling and circus. Smashed2 is the dark art of juggling revisited. Director Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala borrow elements of Pina Bausch’s gestural choreography and combine them with the intricate patterns and cascades of solo and ensemble juggling. Simultaneously evoking great pleasure and small disquiet, Smashed2 lightly disrupts the rigid conventions of …
The Big Meal, Department Of Theatre And Dance
The Big Meal, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Spring 2022
Somewhere in America, in a typical restaurant on a typical night, Sam and Nicole first meet. Sparks fly. And so, begins the extraordinary tale of five generations of an ordinary family, from first kiss to final good-bye. Packed with humanity and humor, The Big Meal chronicles the loves, trials, and resilience of modern families. Playwright Dan LeFranc won the 2010 NYT Outstanding Playwright Award for this big-hearted, theatrically inventive comedy.
Curious Inceident Of The Dog In The Nightime, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Curious Inceident Of The Dog In The Nightime, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Spring 2022
When a neighbor’s dog turns up murdered, 15-year-old Christopher (a suspect himself) sets out to solve the mystery and embarks on a terrifying journey that takes him far beyond his familiar street in Swindon, UK. As Christopher navigates the world through a unique neurological lens with a brilliance for math, his journey reveals more than the murderer, as family secrets unravel, bonds of trust are broken, and his once predictable world spins out of control. Based on the award-winning novel by Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time received 7 Olivier Awards, including Best New Play …
Movement, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Movement, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2021-2022 Join Us in Engaging with the Imaginations of Unparalleled Visionaries
MOVEMENT follows Yerushalmy’s most recent major work, Paramodernities, a six-part series generated through reverently and violently dissecting iconic modern choreographies. The project explored tenets of modern discourse–sovereignty, race, sexuality, disability–with contributions by scholars from different fields, and was created explicitly in order to provoke dynamic conversations with the past and its legacies. In MOVEMENT, existing dances are again quoted (this time from a vast array of sources) and pieced together into an intricate and elaborate quilt with radical and surprising results. By plucking (stealing) short movements and placing them outside of their original contexts, Yerushalmy repurposes them, re-orients them, and …
Head Over Heels, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Head Over Heels, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Spring 2022
Head Over Heels is the bold new musical comedy from the visionaries who rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q, and Spring Awakening. This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the music of the iconic 1980s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, including the hit songs “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation,” and Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” and “Mad about You.” A hilarious, exuberant celebration of love, Head Over Heels follows the escapades of a royal family on an outrageous journey to save their beloved kingdom from extinction—only to discover the …
Strange Fruit, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Strange Fruit, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2021-2022 Join Us in Engaging with the Imaginations of Unparalleled Visionaries
Strange Fruit draws its title from the 1937 poem and song of the same name by Abel Meeropol and made famous by the great jazz singer Billie Holiday—which metaphorically addresses lynching as a tool of racial terrorism during the Jim Crow Era. For this dance/theater work, the facts of lynching act as springboards into a highly personal interior space and state of mind. Abstract yet grounded in a brutal reality, Strange Fruit tracks choreographer Donald Byrd’s feelings as a response to lynching and plays out as a series of dance/theater vignettes.
The Night Falls, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
The Night Falls, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2022-2023 Artists Invoke the Powers of Community as They Bring Audiences Into Fiery, Mysterious, Illuminating Visions of Our World
All across America, people on the brink of despair begin to have the same nightmare. A song will not leave their heads. This dangerously beautiful music lures lost souls to a kitschy Floridian roadside attraction built around a sublime grotto, “home of the world’s eeriest echoes” and the concert hall of The Sirenettes. With choreography that dramatizes the leap of empathy between bodies and music that channels the polarities of surrender and resistance, The Night Falls shows the visceral power of art to brace us against the abyss.
College Of The Arts 22/23 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music
College Of The Arts 22/23 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music
2022-2023
No abstract provided.
Fractales, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Fractales, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2021-2022 Join Us in Engaging with the Imaginations of Unparalleled Visionaries
The language of the circus and dance movement highlight the physical potential of the acrobatic body as performers are confronted by a landscape in transformation. Circus and danced movement induce a slow metamorphosis of humans and organic matter, as performers confront nature, accompany it, dodge it, collide, and merge with it. Nothing here has a beginning or an end, but is part of a continuum.
Fractales, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Fractales, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2020-2021 Launch of PEAK HD and PEAK PLUS
The language of the circus and dance movement highlight the physical potential of the acrobatic body as performers are confronted by a landscape in transformation. Circus and danced movement induce a slow metamorphosis of humans and organic matter, as performers confront nature, accompany it, dodge it, collide, and merge with it. Nothing here has a beginning or an end, but is part of a continuum.
Look Who's Coming To Dinner, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Look Who's Coming To Dinner, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2021-2022 Join Us in Engaging with the Imaginations of Unparalleled Visionaries
Stefanie Batten Bland creates performance at the intersection of dance-theater and installation, questioning contemporary and historical cultural symbolism and the complexities of human relationships. Inspired by the 1967 Stanley Kramer film starring Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy, Look Who’s Coming to Dinner pays tribute to those who paved the way toward acceptance in love and life. Set around a transformative dinner setting, seven dance-theatre artists excavate interlaced universal traumas through imagery and ritual as they seek a seat at the table.
The Eye Is The First Circle, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
The Eye Is The First Circle, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2021-2022 Join Us in Engaging with the Imaginations of Unparalleled Visionaries
With The Eye is the First Circle, Simone Dinnerstein ventures into bold interdisciplinary artistic territory in collaboration with projection designer Laurie Olinder and lighting designer Davison Scandrett. Conceived, directed, and performed by Dinnerstein, this dynamic production deconstructs and collages elements from two iconic works of art-her father Simon Dinnerstein’s The Fulbright Triptych and Charles Ives’s Piano Sonata no.2 (Concord). The Fulbright Triptych places a family portrait (including an infant Simone) within the tradition of medieval altar paintings, against a wall teeming with art historical references, and the Concord Sonata expresses the imaginative and natural world of the Transcendentalists through an …
On Display, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
On Display, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2020-2021 Launch of PEAK HD and PEAK PLUS
The New York Times has described Heidi Latsky as a “choreographer and dancer of uncommon intelligence and fluidity” and has written that, for her, “there are no unbeautiful bodies and no bodies incapable of dancing. In what some might call disability, she finds possibility.” With her ongoing series On Display, she turns a cast of diverse bodies into a sculptural installation, appropriating the notion of the body as spectacle and addressing society’s tendency to objectify, judge, and stigmatize people who are different from ourselves. On the stage of the Kasser, in collaboration with lighting designer Robert Wierzel, New York Live …
Titanic : The Musical, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Titanic : The Musical, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Spring 2021
The sinking of the Titanic in the early hours of April 15, 1912 remains the quintessential disaster of the twentieth century. A total of 1,517 souls- men, women, and children- lost their lives (only 711 survived). The fact that the finest, largest, strongest ship in the world- called, in fact, the unsinkable ship- should have been lost during it’s maiden voyage is so incredible that, had it not actually happened, no author would have dared to contrive it.
Brigadoon, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Brigadoon, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Department of Theatre and Dance Performances
Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon is the enchanting and beloved Broadway and West End musical that inspired the classic MGM film, and numerous productions all over the world. Featuring such standards as "Almost Like Being in Love," "Come to Me, Bend To Me," and "Heather on the Hill," Brigadoon is a timeless, romantic classic which vividly brings the mystery and magic of the Scottish highlands to life. New Yorker Tommy Albright unexpectedly arrives at the mysterious Scottish Highland village of Brigadoon, which only appears for one day every 100 years. When Tommy meets and falls in love with Fiona, a beautiful …
Brooklyn's Bridge, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Brooklyn's Bridge, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Spring 2021
Brooklyn’s Bridge is inspired by the extraordinary life of Emily Roebling, wife of Brooklyn Bridge Chief Engineer Washington Roebling. While working in the caissons under the east river, Washington had a debilitating attack of “the bends” and became bedridden. For the next eleven years, only Emily was seen on the worksite, delivering plans, handling both engineering and political issues. The New York Times recently revised their obituary acknowledging that, SHE built the bridge. And as the Brooklyn Bridge grows stronger, foundations to towers, cables to roadway…so does their love for one another, as Emily navigates the uncharted waters; a Victorian …
'Tasha, Department Of Theatre And Dance
'Tasha, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Spring 2021
T A S H A, inspired by Socrates' Antigone, is set in a modern republic where White Supremacy and Black Civil Disobedience, each, are at their height. The play centers on Natasha Brown, a fictional Sasha Obama. 'Tasha buries her cousin, defying the edict - 'no one shall bury a law-breaker who dies in the act of committing a crime.' The issuer is President Waters, a Trump-Clinton-like character. Will 'Tasha's death restore order or fuel injustice? Is the criminalization of Brown people irreversible?
The Names We Gave Him : Music Capture, Department Of Theatre And Dance
The Names We Gave Him : Music Capture, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Spring 2021
Loosely based on a true story, this is a musical about an amnesiac veteran of the First World War, the doctor who treated him, and the many women who, in denial of their grief, claimed him as their lost beloved. The piece explores the agony of war for both the soldiers and the families they leave behind, the distorting power of loss, and the insistence of love. What is a country’s identity in the aftermath of such devastation? What is a self without memory?
Top Girls, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Top Girls, Department Of Theatre And Dance
Spring 2021
Just as timely and provocative as when it debuted in the early ‘80s, Top Girls highlight the sacrifices made by women in their quest for success and what happens to those left behind. With her characteristically bold theatricality, Caryl Churchill examines women in the workplace in Maggie Thatcher’s Britain who choose to take on the worst traits of men. At the heart of her emotionally blistering and sharply witty play, two sisters, one an upwardly mobile businesswoman and the other passionately committed to her working-class roots, battle over personal and deeply held political views in a confrontation that will forever …
College Of The Arts 21/22 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music
College Of The Arts 21/22 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music
2021-2022
No abstract provided.
2019-2020 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2019-2020 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2019-2020 Language - 15th Anniversary
No abstract provided.
Richard Alston Dance Company: Three American Premieres, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
Richard Alston Dance Company: Three American Premieres, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2019-2020 Language - 15th Anniversary
Boasting a “rich, pliant, full-bodied” style that transports audiences “to the heart of dance itself” (The New York Times), Richard Alston Dance Company returns to Peak Performances for its final American engagement before the company closes its doors after more than 25 years. A selection of recent works highlights the unflagging invention of this beloved group, led by Richard Alston, one of the world’s finest choreographers currently celebrating his 50th year of making dances. Performed to live music, Alston’s witty Brahms Hungarian is presented alongside Shine On, the last piece the choreographer will create for the company. The fast-paced Detour, …