PEAK Performances Podcasts

Jedediah Wheeler asks Simone Dinnerstein to reflect on the genesis and development process for the PEAK Performances commissioned work The Eye is the First Circle. He and Dinnerstein converse on her expanded view of her career now as a renowned concert pianist and recording artist to her successful pursuits into a wide range of collaborative projects.

This podcast is produced by PEAK Performances and the Office of Arts + Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

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Jedediah Wheeler and choreographer Heidi Latsky talk about her PEAK Plus film ON DISPLAY. Latsky illuminates her artistic journey to date that began by simply asking "What is a dance body?" and now looking at bodies as sculpture in ON DISPLAY. Latsky and Wheeler probe the terms “unexpected bodies” and the inherent beauty of her dancers while performing. She also talks about the international impact and evolving responses over the years from her audiences.

To learn more about the performance and streaming of ON DISPLAY in PEAK Plus, go to https://www.peakperfs.org/event/heidi-latsky-on-display/

This podcast is produced by PEAK Performances and the Office of Arts + Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

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Recorded in New York City on September 23, 2021.

David Gordon and Valda Setterfield talk about art & life in the context of 60 years of working and living together from the early days (now known as the Postmodern Dance Movement). They talk with long-time collaborator Jedediah Wheeler in their Soho loft about shared history as well as David Gordon’s new film work created for PEAK Plus, The New Adventures of Old David (What Happened 1978-2021).

To learn more about the performance and streaming of The New Adventures of Old David (What Happened – 1978/2021) in PEAK PLUS, go to https://www.peakperfs.org/event/the-new-adventures-of-old-david/

This podcast is produced by PEAK Performances and the Office of Arts + Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

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Recorded on June 16, 2021.

In this episode of The Talking Cure: Conversations with Jedediah Wheeler, Mathematics professor Mika Munakata and the Chair of the Mathematics Department at Montclair State University, Ashwin Vaidya, discussed their research paper 'Inspiring Mathematical Creativity through Juggling'. An exciting collaboration with the brilliant juggler and director Sean Gandini and the Office of Arts + Cultural Programming explores the connection between science and juggling. The work seeks to encourage students' creative thinking, including non-STEM majors, to see mathematics in unexpected places, make connections to their own interests and disciplines, and explore creativity in mathematics.

To learn more about "Inspiring Mathematical Creativity through Juggling" go to https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol10/iss2/14/

To learn more about Sean Gandini's upcoming broadcast and streaming of SPRING in PEAK HD/ALL ARTS go to https://www.peakperfs.org/peak-hd/

This podcast is produced by PEAK Performances and the Office of Arts + Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

Executive Director, Jedediah Wheeler

Producer and Editor, Natalie Marx

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Recorded via Zoom on Dec 1, 2020.

She conceives a physical language inscribed in a visual universe that is written in the three dimensions of the stage...

Raphaëlle Boitel, French choreographer, director, and aerial mastermind is the author and architect of a new form of theater that transports the imagination to unprecedented heights. In this episode of The Talking Cure, the contemporary circus artist reflects on her dystopian work When Angels Fall, presented by PEAK Performances in 2019, her life during the pandemic, and new work—a tryptic and self-portrait—that celebrates women's strength in the circus.

This podcast is produced by PEAK Performances and the Office of Arts and Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

Executive Director, Jedediah Wheeler

Producer and Editor, Natalie Marx

Post Production Assistant, Maya Singuenza

Photo by Louis Michel Grevent

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Recorded via Zoom on Sept 1, 2020.

In this episode of The Talking Cure, Kristy Geslain, Senior Producer at ALL ARTS, the New York Emmy® Award-winning arts and culture hub created by WNET, talks about its innovative partnership with MSU's PEAK Performances bringing the world's best contemporary artists to HD broadcasting and on-line streaming. Hear about the upcoming launch of this groundbreaking programming initiative presented everywhere via PEAK HD, starting with FALLING & LOVING by Anne Bogart, Elizabeth Streb, and Charles Mee.

For more information about ALL ARTS https://allarts.org

Visit PEAK HD https://www.peakperfs.org/peak-hd/

Produced by PEAK Performances and the Office of Arts + Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

Natalie Marx, Producer and Editor

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Podcast recorded remotely via Zoom on September 11, 2020

“There is nowhere else to go but forward and up” — Robyn Orlin

In this episode of The Talking Cure, the dancer, choreographer and theater maker Robyn Orlin, first generation South African Jewish woman and mother currently in Berlin during the lockdown, reflects about her past and present work addressing the issues of colonialism and Aids epidemic in South Africa and also celebrating the beauty of African dances and people. “I am completely shaped from where I come from” she said. About the Covid-19 pandemic she commented: “I actually had to stop everything and take a very very good look at where I am in the world. And its been a very confusing time for me”…“It Is important to use the structures of the theatre to say what needs to be said…I don’t have an answer…but I know I can’t stop talking about it”

Robyn Orlin, a visionary artist and provocateur not afraid of long titles, presented 'Walking next to our shoes intoxicated by strawberries and

cream, we enter continents without knocking… in 2011 and At the same time we pointed a finger at you we realized we were pointing three at ourselves… along with the Senegalese company Jant-Bi in 2015 at the Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair State University.

For more information about Robyn Orlin visit http://www.robynorlin.com

PODCAST: THE TALKING CURE, conversations with Jedediah Wheeler.

Produced by Peak Performances and the Office of Arts + Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

Executive Director, Jedediah Wheeler

Producer and Editor, Natalie Marx

Recorded remotely on August 6, 2020

Archive photos:

Robyn Orlin by Peggy Jarrell Kaplan

Jant-Bi performing At the same time we pointed a finger at you we realized we were pointing three at ourselves… in the Kasser Stage by Philippe Lainé, 2015.

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In 2014 PEAK Performances co-commissioned Stardust, choreographed, written, and directed by David Roussève. The piece follows an African American gay urban teenager who- never seen onstage- is present only by the emotion laden tweets and text messages he sends. Stardust explores the evolving nature of intimacy in our technology-driven, furiously-paced world. In this conversation David revisits this piece in relation to the overwhelming virtuality of life in Coronavirus lockdown, the importance of telling stories of the disfranchised, but asking himself what else to do in this moment of deep personal and social interrogation.

Learn more in https://www.davidrousseve.com/stardust

PODCAST: THE TALKING CURE, conversations with Jedediah Wheeler.

Produced by Peak Performances and the Office of Arts + Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

Executive Director, Jedediah Wheeler

Producer and Editor, Natalie Marx

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Recorded remotely on June 25, 2020

In this episode of the Talking Cure: Conversations with Jedediah Wheeler, the fierce Zimbabwean choreographer and performer nora chipaumire revisits the making of her African superhero film AfroPromo #1: KINGLAND. Also disscused her experiences with race in the United States and "running into the fire" of colonial history in her first opera "The Queen vs Nehanda."

Learn More about the film Afro Promo #1: KINGLADY produced at Dance for Film on Location at Montclair State University http://danceforfilm.org/choreographers/nora/watch/

And nora chipaumire's animist technology, practice and process book:

cartography of the animist body and radical black african presences

https://www.companychipaumire.com/nhaka-bhuku-book

PODCAST: THE TALKING CURE, conversations with Jedediah Wheeler.

Produced by PEAK Performances and the Office of Arts and Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

Executive Director, Jedediah Wheeler

Producer and Editor, Natalie Marx

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Recorded remotely on June 11, via Zoom.

Photo: Ari Marcopoulos

In this episode of The Talking Cure, composer, performer, and writer Kate Soper shares her story about life after the 'shut down' and the world premiere of The Romance of the Rose at the Alexander Kasser Theater due to COVID-19; how she is staying in touch with collaborators from the Wet Ink Ensemble and her new Youtube quarantine project Unwritten Operas.

Learn More:

Wet Ink Ensemble: http://archive.wetink.org/

Unwritten Operas by Kate Soper: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqvYFiwIVvrpa86kAjHIGYA

The Romance of the Rose: https://www.peakperfs.org/event/the-romance-of-the-rose/2020-04-02/

PODCAST: THE TALKING CURE, conversations with Jedediah Wheeler.

Produced by Peak Performances and the Office of Arts and Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

Executive Director, Jedediah Wheeler

Producer, Natalie Marx

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Recorded remotely on April 29, via Zoom.