Peak Performances

Frank London | Elise Thoron | Music-Theatre Group

In a Havana nightclub in 1931, a love story between a Jewish poet and a native Taino singer unfolds. This Afro-Cuban Yiddish opera is a multi-cultural celebration of freedom.

The Crossing (Donald Nally, conductor)
Music by David Lang | Caroline Shaw | Ted Hearne
With the strings of ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble)

The “ardently angelic” choir, The Crossing, performs music that explores what it means to be an American at this moment in history.

Experience the genius of Beethoven and the “superb” musicianship of the Shanghai Quartet. (The Boston Globe)

Faye Driscoll

“Thank You for Coming” is award-winning choreographer Faye Driscoll’s playful, moving, mind-boggling trilogy about “how we are all wrapped up in each other, whether we like it or not.” In October, see the first two parts of the trilogy, “Attendance” and “Play”; come back in April for the world premiere of its final installation in the trilogy, “Space.”

Liz Gerring

According to Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times, choreographer Liz Gerring’s mind is “warmly modernist: scientific but also passionately and infectiously in love with movement.” Gerring returns to the Kasser with “field,” the third in a trilogy of works by she has created in collaboration with composer Michael J. Schumacher and designer Robert Wierzel, all commissioned and produced by Peak Performances.

Marrugeku

Is it a pop concert? Modern dance? A political statement? “Cut the Sky” by Marrugeku, Australia’s preeminent dance theater ensemble of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, is all three. As a singer belts out tunes from Buffalo Springfield and Nick Cave to soul and Indigenous music, the “incredibly expressive and visceral” dancers (The Guardian) form a band of climate change refugees facing another extreme weather event.

Gandini Juggling

What do you get when you toss together nine jugglers, 80 apples, and four crockery sets? “Smashed,” a tea party you’ll never forget. Nine well-dressed, perfectly respectable young people take the stage and, under the guise of a quaint afternoon tea, engage in the dark art of juggling. Their virtuosic blend of skills, precision, and theatricality will leave you breathless.