A slew of new challenges–new repertory, new dancers, new venues, and new music–are slated for BalletNext’s 2014/15 season. Most notable… Read more »
Press Releases
RICHARD ALSTON DANCE COMPANY RETURNS TO PEAK PERFORMANCES, OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 2, WITH THREE NEW DANCES–‘REJOICE IN THE LAMB,’ ‘HÖLDERLIN FRAGMENTS’… Read more »
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE DÉCOR BY DANIEL ARSHAM, PERFORMANCES BY BOKAER, VALDA SETTERFIELD, SARA PROCOPIO AND TAL ADLER-ARIELI Jonah Bokaer will present… Read more »
U.S. DEBUT OF HUNGARIAN CONTEMPORARY THEATER/DANCE COMPANY, THE SYMPTOMS, AT PEAK PERFORMANCES, OCTOBER 16-19
Engagement features two American premieres When Réka Szabó was a 15-year old gymnastic student in Budapest, she stumbled on an… Read more »
‘FOUR WOMEN,’ A DANCE FILM BY JONAH BOKAER, WILL BE AMONG HIGHLIGHTS OF HIS SOLO EXHIBITION “OCTOBER 7, 1944” COMMISSIONED BY THE AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, OPENS OCTOBER 7 AT THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY
The world premiere of choreographer Jonah Bokaer’s “Four Women,” a dance/film installation inspired by four women who were hanged for… Read more »
WORLD PREMIERE OF SCOTT JOHNSON’S ‘MIND OUT OF MATTER’ PERFORMED BY ALARM WILL SOUND AT PEAK PERFORMANCES, OCTOBER 4 & 5
The much-anticipated world premiere of Scott Johnson’s “Mind Out of Matter”–the composer’s largest work to-date–will be performed by Alarm Will… Read more »
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN DATES. LIZ LERMAN’S ‘HEALING WARS’ MAKES LOCAL DEBUT AT PEAK PERFORMANCES, SEPTEMBER 25-27
Liz Lerman’s “Healing Wars,” the first dance event of Peak Performances 2014/15 season, opens at the Kasser Theater for three… Read more »
ARCHITECT/JAZZ COMPOSER CHRISTOPHER JANNEY BRINGS SERIES OF NEW AND ONGOING INVENTIONS IN PUBLIC SPACES TO NEW YORK CITY AND WASHINGTON, D.C. THIS FALL
How can one man have so many ideas? Consider “REACH: NY” on New York’s 34th Street and Herald Square subway… Read more »
EXPLORING THE EROTIC REQUIRES MANY LOCATIONS WORLD PREMIERE OF RICHARD SCHECHNER’S ‘IMAGINING O’ OPENS PEAK PERFORMANCES’S 2014/15 SEASON, SEPTEMBER 10-13
Watch out! Richard Schechner returns, armed with another series of shocks and surprises: the world premiere of “Imagining O” at… Read more »
10 Years, more than 450 Performances, 100 Premieres, and 140 Music, Theater and Dance Companies Later
FOURTEEN PREMIERES CELEBRATE THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF PEAK PERFORMANCES AND THE OPENING OF THE ALEXANDER KASSER THEATER AT MONTCLAIR STATE… Read more »
2014/15 RICHARD AND BARBARA DEBS COMPOSER’S CHAIR COMPOSER MEREDITH MONK CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF MUSICAL INNOVATION WITH CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES THROUGHOUT NEW YORK CITY, BEGINNING NOVEMBER 20
To visit Meredith Monk’s West Broadway loft, you used to have to call upstairs from a pay phone, and… Read more »
2WICE EDITIONS PRESENTS ‘PASSE-PARTOUT,’ MARKING CHOREOGRAPHER JUSTIN PECK’S APP DEBUT; 13,440 BALLETS AWAIT
A tap of a button. Then voilà! A new dance premieres. User becomes choreographer. Do you hear the applause? … Read more »