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The Force Of Things : An Opera For Objects, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2017

The Force Of Things : An Opera For Objects, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2017-2018 Women Innovators in the Performing Arts

“Tones made tactile, objects made audible, noise made beautiful.” That’s how The New York Times describes Ashley Fure’s work. In her world, all materials are potent and active with lives of their own. We often take things for granted, but Fure does not. She has given them their own voice and consciousness in The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects. This wordless drama, created with her architect brother Adam Fure and International Contemporary Ensemble, “probes the animate vitality of matter.” The audience sits beneath a canopy of familiar and exotic objects, while performers spur them into action and singers, …

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The Merchant Of Venice, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2017

The Merchant Of Venice, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2017-2018 Women Innovators in the Performing Arts

Karin Coonrod “looks for the flash in the actors’ eyes and listens for the music of the audience.” Now this internationally acclaimed director brings her groundbreaking production of Shakespeare’s most controversial play, The Merchant of Venice, to the US. Coonrod first staged this thorny masterpiece in 2016 in its original setting, the Jewish ghetto of Venice, to mark the 500th anniversary of its creation. Five actors of different races, creeds, nationalities, and genders play Shylock, the iconic Jewish moneylender at the center of the play. According to Coonrod, “these five actors, all of them very different, open up the play …

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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.”

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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2017-2018 Peak Journal, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University, Claudia La Rocco Jan 2017

2017-2018 Peak Journal, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University, Claudia La Rocco

PEAK Journals

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College Of The Arts 17/18 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music Jan 2017

College Of The Arts 17/18 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music

2017-2018

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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.

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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 …

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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

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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, …

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2015-2016 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jun 2016

2015-2016 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

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Go Down, Moses, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jun 2016

Go Down, Moses, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

This work transfigures the various moments of the life of Moses as they are narrated in the Book of Exodus. In the events of this man’s life there is something inherent in the substance of our time. As with Michelangelo’s Moses, described in the text that Freud dedicated to this work, the prophet of monotheism is presented here as a man, forced to react when faced with the difficulties that this God—without name and without image—puts before him: the abandonment of his newborn body in the waters of the Nile, the mystery of the burning bush in which the blinding …

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La Double Coquette, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jun 2016

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

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

Florise is at home, wallowing in self-pity, when she receives an e-mail inviting her to a party. She assumes that Damon, her fickle suitor, has sent it. She sees him on Facebook with another woman—Clarice. She devises a plot to break them up, dressing as a man, complete with fake moustache.

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Shanghai Quartet, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University May 2016

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

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

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.

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Portrait Of Myself As My Father, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Apr 2016

Portrait Of Myself As My Father, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

portrait... takes place in a simulated boxing ring in which Chipaumire and Senegalese dancer Pape Ibrahima Ndiaye, also known as Kaolack, are tied together in an exhausting and symbolic dance-ritual. They are joined by Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based dancer Shamar Watt, who plays the coach/corner man/cheerleader/shadow. In this performance, the spectres of the estranged father dance, struggle, and fight against prejudices, social pressures, the weight of traditions and history.The piece considers the African male through the lens of capitalism, Christianity, colonialism and liberation struggles—and how these political and cultural traditions impact the African family and society on a global scale. The imaginary …

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Krapp's Last Tape, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Mar 2016

Krapp's Last Tape, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape is a solo/dialogue. One actor onstage carries on a conversation with his own voice recorded many years before. An old man sitting alone in his den on his birthday gets ready to make a recording about the past year of his life, as he has done on every birthday since he was a young man. Getting ready to make the new recording, he listens to a recording he made some 30 years before, at the end of a year that was perhaps the last truly happy one in his life. Bitter, funny, ironic, he finds …

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The Grand Parade (Of The 20th Century), Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Feb 2016

The Grand Parade (Of The 20th Century), Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

It all started with a question: How would we write a mythology for our time? We began with the recent past—the 20th century—and the paintings of Marc Chagall. We encountered a brutal and chaotic century, one in which cataclysm and destruction branded the times. This is how we chose to walk alongside Chagall. For the better part of the 20th century, he chose the flight of the imagination, folk tradition, and the collision of dreams as his portal of memory, as a means of passage through the war and revolution and exile that he painted.

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The Book Of Disquiet, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jan 2016

The Book Of Disquiet, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

Michel van der Aa’s music theatre work, The Book of Disquiet, was the first staged production in Linz’s Cultural Capital of Europe celebrations in January 2009. Following his opera After Life, which enjoyed a sell-out run at the Holland Festival in 2006, van der Aa again provides cutting-edge integration of music, live action and video, here built from text fragments by Fernando Pessoa.

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Shanghai Quartet With Wu Man, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Dec 2015

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

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

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.

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Horizon, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Dec 2015

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

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

Horizon is a new work for seven dancers centered around the idea of density. In this piece I endeavored to add as much as possible to the space in terms of dancers and movement. With multiple phrases occurring simultaneously, the dance takes the form of a constantly shifting universe full of activity. glacier, my preceding work was an exercise of stripping away in an effort to reduce movement to its least possible form. Working again with collaborators Michael Schumacher and set and lighting designer Robert Wierzel, we’ve done something different. Michael’s multiple rhythms and use of a live percussionist propel …

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Girl Gods, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2015

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

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

Girl Gods explores the ancestry of women, individuals, and family—and the idea of rage. Both a visual installation and a time-based performance, Girl Gods has connections to feminist artists and art practices of the 1970s, influenced by Judy Chicago’s installation projects and the earth-body work of Ana Mendieta.

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Rooms Of Light : The Life Of Photographs, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Oct 2015

Rooms Of Light : The Life Of Photographs, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

"...A lot had happened in the world to make photography even more central: the rise of online dating sites, of the tweet, the iPhone, the selfie; a ban had finally been lifted on taking photographs of soldiers’ coffins returning home from the Middle East. We were consuming photography, and photography was consuming us. Our lives were validated somehow by photographs, each one of them a “room of light.” So our song cycle concluded—although the implications of photography will never be finished."

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Elements Of Oz, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Sep 2015

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

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

A MASHUP OF PERFORMANCE, TECH & POP CULTURE; The Builders Association takes you on a journey through the Wonderful Land of OZ - From the surreal novel, to dark conspiracy theories, to the making of the iconic film, ELEMENTS OF OZ uses live music, video, performance and AR to bring this iconic American story to life.

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2014-2015 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jun 2015

2014-2015 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

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Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Jun 2015

Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

Two-time Tony winner and National Medal of Arts recipient Bill T. Jones’ long affiliation with Peak Performances has produced some of his most profoundly moving works, including the highly acclaimed Blind Date (2005) and the widely celebrated Story/Time (2011). Analogy*, his new evening-length piece, draws on two tales that question the nature of service, duty, and what constitutes a life well lived: W.G. Sebald’s celebrated historical novel The Emigrants and Jones’ own oral history of Dora Amelan, a French Jewish nurse and social worker who survived World War II. Focusing on memory and the effect of powerful events on the …

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La Madonna, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University May 2015

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

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

A Baroque celebration of Mother’s Day and motherhood! Repast Baroque Ensemble, a group of “practiced period perfectionists” whose articulate, spirited playing has won rave reviews, has created a program of works in praise of motherhood. From Biber’s Annunciation sonata to Purcell’s Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation, all the works on this program, played by some of the finest instrumentalists on period instruments, will honor the mothers among us.

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Triptych, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University Apr 2015

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

2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

Heidi Latsky is a choreographer who “beautifully resets preconceptions about bodies and movement” (The New Yorker). Ideas about beauty are often shaped by convention, but Latsky defies convention by exposing the gorgeous virtuosity of unconventional dancers’ bodies in motion in an edgy, intimate way. With Triptych, comprised of two live works and a new dance created especially for film, she celebrates the essence of individual dancers, exults in the pure joy of movement in a piece created for herself, as an “older dancer” at 56, dancing in juxtaposition with five younger dancers, and reveals the hidden beauty of all bodies.

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