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NY Times: Opera Highlights Wrongful Imprisonment Issue

NY Times: Opera Highlights Wrongful Imprisonment Issue
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World Premiere of Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company's CURRICULUM II to be Presented at PEAK Performances

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University will welcome back Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company for the world premiere of Curriculum II, a timely new work conceived and directed by the iconic, Tony-winning, and currently-Tony-nominated Bill T. Jones and choreographed by Jones with Janet Wong and the Company. 

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A Spinning Acrobat Learns to Love Change

The French circus company Libertivore makes its American debut, though its director had to give up her performing career.

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A Rift Over Art and Activism Ripples Through the Performance World


A Rift Over Art and Activism Ripples Through the Performance World
A dispute between the director of Peak Performances and an Indigenous choreographer hinged on workplace behavior, power and the boundary between art and social justice.
The choreographer Emily Johnson doing a land acknowledgment at Abrons Art Center in 2018.Credit...Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times
March 12, 2021
At a conference of performing arts presenters, in January 2020, Jedediah Wheeler, the executive director of Peak Performances at Montclair State University in New Jersey, introduced the choreographer Emily Johnson. Wheeler called himself “the luckiest person in the room” to be commissioning her to make work.

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What's a dance theater without an audience?


What's a dance theater without an audience?
The Henry Street Playhouse, part of the Abrons Art Center in Manhattan, which has been used as a food pantry since the pandemic closed performances, Feb. 2, 2021. Todd Heisler/The New York Times.
by Brian Seibert
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- At the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side, the seats are empty but the stage is crowded. The audience is gone, banned by pandemic restrictions, yet since last summer the stage has been covered every Tuesday in hundreds of bags of groceries, lined up to be delivered by stagehands, theater staff members and artists to nearby housing projects and senior homes.

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What's a Dance Theater Without an Audience? - The New York Times


What’s a Dance Theater Without an Audience?
A food pantry or a place to vote — or a place to make dance with different expectations: “What we’ve taken off the table is the pressure of the result.”
On the Lower East Side, the Henry Street Playhouse, part of the Abrons Arts Center, is being used as a food pantry.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times
Feb. 9, 2021
At the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side, the seats are empty but the stage is crowded. The audience is gone, banned by pandemic restrictions, yet since last summer the stage has been covered every Tuesday in hundreds of bags of groceries, lined up to be delivered by stagehands, theater staff and artists to nearby housing projects and senior homes.

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