All Past Peak Performances at the Kasser Theater

2021-2022

Simone Dinnerstein The Eye is the First Circle ■ ▲
Stefanie Batten Bland | Company SBB Look Who’s Coming to Dinner

Spectrum Dance Theater | Donald Byrd Strange Fruit

2019-2020

15th Anniversary
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Language

Anne Bogart & Elizabeth Streb, Charles Mee FALLING & LOVING ■ ▲
Shanghai Quartet with guest artist Simone Dinnerstein
Sphinx Virtuosi For Justice and Peace
Lena Herzog Last Whispers
Martha Graham Dance Company ■ ▲
Troy Schumacher, Augusta Read Thomas, International Contemporary Ensemble
Gandini Juggling & Alexander Whitley Spring ■
Shanghai Quartet Franz Haydn, Caroline Shaw, Ludwig van Beethoven
Grand Band with film by Joshua Frankel ▲
Richard Alston Dance Company featuring Gelsey Bell with choreography by Sir Richard Alston and Martin Lawrence ●

2018-2019

Borders and Boundaries

Frank London & Elise Thoron, Music Theatre Group Hatuey: Memory of Fire ●
The Crossing with International Contemporary Ensemble
The National Anthems: Music of Lang, Shaw and Hearne
Shanghai Quartet All Beethoven
Faye Driscoll Thank You for Coming: Attendance
Faye Driscoll Thank You for Coming: Play
Liz Gerring Dance Company Field ■ ▲
Marrugeku Cut the Sky ●
Gandini Juggling Smashed ●
Compagnie L’Oublié(e) | Raphaëlle Boitel When Angels Fall ▲ ●
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company | Ann Carlson Elizabeth The Dance
Shanghai Quartet with guest artist Haochen Zhang
Faye Driscoll Thank You for Coming: Space ■ ▲
Societas Raffaello Sanzio | Romeo Castellucci Democracy in America ●

2017-2018

Women Innovators in the Performing Arts

Compagnia de’ Colombari | Karin Coonrod The Merchant of Venice
Ashley Fure/Adam Fure/International Contemporary Ensemble The Force of Things ●
Simone Dinnerstein/Pam Tanowitz
New Work for Goldberg Variations ▲
Sud Costa Occidentale | Emma Dante Le Sorelle Macaluso ●
Shanghai Quartet with guest artist Yiwen Lu
Camille A. Brown & Dancers ink ▲
Double Edge Theatre Leonora and Alejandro: La Maga y el Maestro ■
Inbal Oshman/New York Baroque Incorporated M Stabat Mater ●
Atra Bilis Teatro | Angelica Liddell Esta Breve Tragedia de la Carne
Julia Wolfe/ Maya Beiser/ Laurie Olinder Spinning ■

2016-2017

Break the Mold

Compagnie L’Oublié(e) | Raphaëlle Boitel The Forgotten/L’Oublié(e) ●
Cullberg Ballet Figure a Sea ▲ ●
The Abbey Theatre The Plough and the Stars
Third Coast Percussion / Cryptic See You Later ■ ▲
Richard Alston Dance Company with Shanghai Quartet & Repast Baroque Ensemble ■ ▲
Amy Beth Kirsten/Howl Quixote ■ ▲
All Terrain Strings Festival works of William Bolcom
featuring The Harlem Quartet, Chiara String Quartet
Arditti Quartet, The Shanghai Quartet
Doug Elkins Choreography, etc A Hundred Indecisions, O, Round Desire, Motown / Redux ■ ▲
Astrid Hadad Tierra Misteriosa ●

2015-2016

Art Between Real and Imagined

The Builders Association | Marianne Weems Elements of Oz ■
Fred Hersch/Mary Jo Salter Rooms Of Light: The Life of Photographs ■ ▲
Pat Graney Company Girl Gods
Liz Gerring Dance Company Horizon ■
Shanghai Quartet | Wu Man A Night in Ancient and New China
Michel Van Der Aa The Book Of Disquiet ●
Double Edge Theatre The Grand Parade (of the 20th century)
Shanghai Quartet
Robert Wilson in Krapp’s Last Tape ●
Nora Chipaumire Portrait of Myself as my Father ■ ▲
Ensemble Amarillis La Double Coquette
Societas Raffaello Sanzio | Romeo Castellucci Go Down, Moses ●

2014-2015

10th Anniversary

Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life

East Coast Artists | Richard Schechner Imagining O ■
Liz Lerman Healing Wars ▲
Alarm Will Sound Mind Out of Matter by Scott Johnson ■ ▲
Shanghai Quartet | Wu Han Quintets by Dvořák and Schumann
The Symptoms Apropos ●
Richard Alston Dance Company ▲ ●
with American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Nicholas Phan
NPR’s From The Top Live with Host Christopher O’Riley
Compagnie Jant-Bi | Robyn Orlin At the same time we were pointing a finger at you… ●
American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) and Roomful of Teeth ■
Shanghai Quartet | Du Yun Works by Beethoven, Ravel, and Du Yun ■ ▲
ICKamsterdam | Emio Greco/Pieter C. Scholten ROCCO
Robert Whitman Swim ■
Heidi Latsky Dance Triptych ■
Repast Baroque Ensemble La Madonna
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Analogy* ■ ▲

2013-2014

Raise the Bar

Liz Gerring Dance Company glacier ■ ▲
Gallim Dance Company Fold Here ■ ▲
The Vijay Iyer Large Ensemble Project, Teju Cole Open City ■ ▲
Shanghai Quartet with Miró Quartet ▲
Vincent Dance Theatre | Charlotte Vincent Motherland ▲ ●
Troubleyn | Jan Fabre Tragedy of a Friendship ●
East of the River Darkness Is Your Candle ■
Douglas Dunn & Dancers Aubade ■ ▲
REALITY | David Roussève Stardust ▲
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance Atomos ▲ ●
Rushes Ensemble Rushes by Michael Gordon
Shanghai Quartet with guest artists Orion Weiss, DaXun Zhang ▲
Cryptic | Cathie Boyd Orlando ●
Coiscéim Dance Theatre | David Bolger Swimming With My Mother
Liz Queler & Seth Farber Still Will Be Heard ■ ▲

2012-2013

Exceptions Rule: No Compromise

David T. Little/Royce Vavrek/Robert Woodruff Dog Days ■ ▲
ARTEK I’ll Never See the Stars Again
Shanghai Quartet with guest artist Jan Vogler
L.A. Dance Project | Benjamin Millepied East Coast premiere of a new work by Benjamin Millepied, with Quintett (William Forsythe) and Winterbranch (Merce Cunningham)
Richard Alston Dance Company A Ceremony of Carols ▲ ●
Robert Wilson/Bernice Johnson Reagon/Toshi Reagon
Jacqueline Woodson Zinnias: The Life of Clementine Hunter ■ ▲
Lionheart with American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) Wayfaring Stranger
Societas Raffaello Sanzio | Romeo Castellucci On the Concept of the Face,
Regarding the Son of God ▲ ●
Via Katlehong Dance Katlehong Cabaret ▲ ●
Shanghai Quartet with guest artist Ying Huang
Sarah Rothenberg, Marilyn Nonken The Grand Gesture
Jasmin Vardimon Company Freedom ●
Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet Landfall ▲

2011-2012

Expose of Global Creativity

AnDa Union From the Steppes to the City Music of Inner Mongolia
Companhia Urbana de Danca | Sonia Destri ID: ENTIDADES and Chapa Quente ●
Piano Circus Trilogies
Pick Up Performance Co(s) | David Gordon DANCING HENRY V
National Chamber Choir of Ireland Acallam na Senorach ▲
Na Kinimakalehua | Hokulani Holt Living Waters
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance FAR ▲ ●
Shanghai Quartet with guest artist Michel Lethiec (clarinet) Selections from Porgy and Bess
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Story/Time ■ ▲
Miguel Zenón Puerto Rico Nacio en Mi: Tales from the Diaspora ■ ▲
Ellen Hargis, Paul O’Dette The Power of Love
Akram Khan Company Vertical Road ●
les ballets C de la B | Alain Platel, Frank van Laecke Gardenia ●
Lee Saar the Company FAME ■ ▲
Shanghai Quartet

2010-2011

PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Christopher Janney Everywhere Is the Best Seat: Disembodied Instruments ■ ▲
NOW Ensemble, William Brittelle’s Television Landscape, Victoire Here There Be Dragons
Shanghai Quartet with guest artist Wu Man ■
The Builders Assocation | Diller Scofidio + Renfro Jet Lag
Young Concert Artists
Carolyn Carlson Company | Electronic Shadow Double Vision ●
Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM | Crystal Pite Dark Matters
Sõ Percussion with Meehan/Perkins Duo Bringing Down the Stars and Moving Them Around
REBEL Ensemble for Baroque Music Town and Country
Troubleyn | Jan Fabre Prometheus-Landscape II ■ ▲
Carter Brey & Christopher O’Riley
Imani Winds with Simon Shaheen The Zafir Project ■ ▲
City Theatre & Dance Group | Robyn Orlin ●
Walking next to our shoes…
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange The Matter of Origins ▲
Shanghai Quartet Mozart Quartet K. 465 Dissonance, Bartok Quartet no. 6.
Robert Whitman Passport ■ ▲
Fred Hersch My Coma Dreams ■ ▲

2009-2010

Shanghai Quartet with guest artists Kazuhide Isomura, Clive Greensmith
Jérôme Savary Looking for Josephine ●
Marino Formenti Kurtág’s Ghostsn
Margaret Jenkins Dance Co/Guangdong Modern Dance Co Other Suns ▲
Feufollet with Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole Fête de Louisiane!
Paul O’Dette The English Orpheus
Pick Up Performance Co(s) David Gordon UNCIVIL WARS: MOVING W/ BRECHT & EISLER
Robert Brustein/ Arnold Weinstein/ Hankus Netsky/ David Gordon Shlemiel the First
Lula Washington Dance Theatre Beautiful Venus and Serena, Choreographer Tamica Washington-Miller; WWW.CONNECTIONS.2010, We Wore the Mask, Ode to the ’60s, Choreographer Lula Washington; Angelitos Negros, Choreographer Donald McKayle ■ ▲
Miguel Zenón Esta Plena
Kronos Quartet Eclectic multicultural program of pieces from their diverse repertoire
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance Entity
Doug Elkins and Friends’ Fräulein Maria
Vincent Dance Theatre If We Go On and Broken Chords ▲ ●
Shanghai Quartet with guest artist Christian McBride
Crash Ensemble with Iarla O’Lionaird ■

2008-2009

World Inferno Friendship Society | Jay Scheib
Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century ▲
Sõ Percussion Music for Pieces of Wood, Drumming
Shanghai Quartet with guest artist Cynthia Phelps
DV8 Physical Theatre | Lloyd Newson To Be Straight With You
dumb type Voyage
Ritz Chamber Ensemble Dohnányi, Copland, Baker, Dvorˇák
They Might Be Giants Don’t Let’s Start and Birdhouse in Your Soul
Troubleyn | Jan Fabre Orgy of Tolerance ■ ▲
Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii Minamo
REBEL Ensemble for Baroque Music Irregular Pearls
Urwintore | Dorcy Rugamba The Investigation
David Rousseve/REALITY Saudade
Shanghai Quartet Special guest: Cynthia Phelps, viola ▲ ●
The Deedle Deedle Dees Interactive show on New Jersey’s rich past
Susan Marshall & Company Adamantine & Frame Dances ■ ▲
Joji Inc. & Argento New Music Project Lolita, An Imagined Opera ●
Via Katlehong WOZA ●

2007-2008

Rebecca Frezza and Big Truck
Shanghai Quartet
Newband
Orchestra of St. Luke’s In the Grace of the World ●
Ensemble Galilei First Person: Stories from the Edge of the World
Wuturi Players The Trojan Women, An Asian Story ▲ ●
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Blind Date
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company As I Was Saying
Russian Patriarchate Choir
Sara Davis Buechner
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company A Quarreling Pair ■ ▲
Dan Zanes and Friends A Holiday Hootenanny! ■ ▲
Robert Aldridge/Herschel Garfein Elmer Gantry, An American Opera
Societas Raffaello Sanzio | Romeo Castellucci Hey girl!
Coiscéim Dance Company Knots
Pig Iron Theatre Company PAY UP
Lura
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Ferocious Beauty: Genome
Fred Hersch with the Fred Hersch Trio ■ ▲

2006-2007

Ridge Theater/David Lang/Mac Wellman
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field ■ ▲
Heinavanker ●
American Repertory Theatre No Exit
Jean Deroyer/Marilyn Nonken/Ensemble 21 ■
TransAtlantic New Music
Christopher Taylor Gyorgy Ligeti: Etudes pour Piano
Troubleyn | Jan Fabre Quando L’Uomo Principale È Una Donna ●
Kim Gordon/Tony Oursler/Phil Morrison Perfect Partner ●
Shanghai Quartet
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
New York Voices
Trisha Brown Dance Company | Kenjiro Okasaki ■ ▲
I love my robots
Troubleyn | Jan Fabre Je Suis Sang ●
David Neuman, Joe Chvala, Eva Silverstein, Janine Durning, Keely Garfield, David Brick
Shanghai Quartet
Tafelmusik Four Seasons: Cycles of the Sun
Vincent Dance Theater | Charlotte Vincent Broken Chords ●
Kronos Quartet 4 Cast by Trimpin ■ ▲

2005-2006

Orquestra Imperial ●
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Blind Date ▲
Shanghai Quartet
Hip-Hop Theater Festival (Danny Hoch, Rokafella, Will Power)
Shanghai Quartet
Societas Raffaello Sanzio | Romeo Castellucci Tragedia Endogonidia ●
Sanford Sylvan & David Breitman
Newband The Last Laugh
Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
Tim Miller US
Ben Munisteri Dance Projects
Rinde Eckert Horizon ▲
Les Deux Mondes Living Memory
The Builder’s Association/dBox | Marianne Weems Super Vision
Jed Distler & Kathleen Supove
Charles Moulton Land of Dreams: A Vaudeville Requiem ■
Christopher O’Riley Hold Me To This
Shanghai Quartet
Four Virtuosi (Glenn Dicterow, Jerry Grossman, Andre Michel Schub, David Singer)
Glenn Branca Hallucination City: Symphony 13 for 100 Guitars
Susan Marshall & Company Cloudless ■ ▲
Krétakör | Arpad Schilling The Seagull
Shanghai Quartet
Krétakör | Arpad Schilling BLACKland ●
Mosaic | Hans Peter Cloos Cabaret Schoenberg ●
Reynaldo Reyes
Phoenix Dance Theatre | Darshan Singh Bhuller ●
The Tallis Scholars
Micheál ÓSúlleabháin and Page Allen Madison’s Descent ■ ▲

2004-2005

Rezo Gabriadze Forbidden Christmas with Mikhail Baryshnikov
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Rockapella
Shanghai Quartet
Ultima Vez | Wim Wandekeybus Blush
Almeida Opera | Michael Nyman Man and Boy: Dada ●
Walter Hautzig
Granular Synthesis Areal
Robert Lepage The Busker’s Opera ●
Ensemble Kaboul
Cristina Capparelli Gerling
Ridge Theater/Newband Harry Partch’s Oedipus ■
Stephen Oosting
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with David Singer
Daniel Bernard Roumain Soulphonic Soundscape
Shanghai Quartet
Musica Elettronica Viva
Dan Zanes and Friends
Mansaku No Kai The Kyogen of Errors ●
Yaël Farber Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise ●