Peak Performances Season Schedule
LIZ GERRING
FIELD
October 18th - October 21st
More Information | Buy TicketsAlastair Macaulay of The New York Times calls choreographer Liz Gerring’s mind, “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 created in collaboration with composer Michael J. Schumacher and designer Robert Wierzel, all commissioned and produced by Peak Performances.
MARRUGEKU
CUT THE SKY
November 15th - November 18th
More Information | Buy TicketsIs it a pop concert? Is it modern dance? Is it a political statement? “Cut the Sky” by Marrugeku, Australia’s preeminent dance theater ensemble of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, is all three. As soul singer Ngaire belts out tunes from Buffalo Springfield and Nick Cave to her own soul and pop songs to Indigenous music, Marrugeku’s “incredibly expressive and visceral” dancers (The Guardian) form a band of climate change refugees facing another extreme weather event.
GANDINI JUGGLING
SMASHED
December 13th - December 16th
More Information | Buy TicketsWhat do you get when you toss together nine jugglers, 80 apples, and four crockery sets? “Smashed,” a tea party you’ll never forget, created by Gandini Juggling, the thinking person’s jugglers. 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. Inspired by the work of Pina Bausch, the Gandinis display a virtuosic blend of skills, precision, and theatricality that leaves the audience breathless, while the performers remain as cool as cucumber sandwiches.
RAPHAËLLE BOITEL
WHEN ANGELS FALL
February 9th - February 17th
More Information | Buy TicketsRaphaëlle Boitel began her career as a young girl when she and her family ran away to join the circus. A mesmerizing contortionist and aerialist, Ben Brantley of The New York Times called her “truly ravishing.” Peak Performances introduced American audiences to Boitel’s boundless talents in 2016 with her luminous directorial debut “The Forgotten.”
Ann Carlson | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
Elizabeth, the Dance
March 28th - March 31st
More Information | Buy TicketsImagine a world in which classical ballet, modern dance icon Martha Graham, and questions of cultural appropriation collide with clowns, basketball players, and hula dance, and you may begin to grasp the creative force, intelligence, and wit of choreographer Ann Carlson. In “Elizabeth, the Dance,” she pays homage to “the visionaries and teachers” of modern dance history.
WITH HAOCHEN ZHANG, PIANO
Shanghai Quartet
April 6th
More Information | Buy TicketsSince his gold medal win at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, 27-year-old Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang has captivated audiences with his deep musical sensitivity, fearless imagination, and spectacular virtuosity. In 2017, he received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 2018, he made his Carnegie Hall solo recital debut.
Faye Driscoll
Thank You For Coming: Space
April 11th - April 14th
More Information | Buy TicketsChoreographer Faye Driscoll returns to Peak Performances to stage the world premiere of the final part of her “Thank You for Coming” trilogy. She conceives “Space” as a joyful requiem for the myth of human progress. Performers reanimate historical and contemporary images, from scratches on a cave wall to snapshots in an Instagram feed, forcing us to consider how we are creating ourselves and our worlds when we make an image.
ROMEO CASTELLUCCI
Democracy in America
May 9th - May 12th
More Information | Buy TicketsRomeo Castellucci is one of Europe’s best-known directors, a firebrand known for productions that are as thought-provoking as they are visually stunning. He returns to Peak Performances with the American premiere of “Democracy in America,” freely inspired by the work of Alexis de Tocqueville. Castellucci conjures majorettes who stir the crowd’s enthusiasm for democracy in America, colonial settlers who confound the native Americans, and a puritan couple who struggle to farm a barren land.
