Peak Performances Podcasts: Recent Episodes
Montclair State University
PODCAST: THE TALKING CURE, conversations with Jedediah Wheeler.
The Talking Cure” are informal conversations between Montclair State University’s Executive Director for Arts + Cultural Programming Jedediah Wheeler and innovative artists and administrators from PEAK Performances' local and worldwide community. This series of podcasts highlight issues that expand our appreciation of the contemporary performing arts experiences as told by creative practitioners.
When looking at each work in the 2019/2020 PEAK season through the multidimensional optic of language, consider that each event is in some way singularly influenced by the metaphor.
Language is culture Learning a new language to make new art. Dancers internalize language. Vanishing voices. Dance vocabulary Diversity is cultural language Old language for new sounds. His unique language was not heard in his lifetime A new language emerges from old words An original dance voice goes quiet Visual digital language Politics of language Theater without words
Produced by the Office of Arts and Cultural Programming at Montclair State University.
Executive Director, Jedediah Wheeler Producer, Natalie Marx
Music by NeoCortex 2019
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
More episode of The Talking Cure: www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Support us! www.peakperfs.org/donate/
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
More episode of The Talking Cure: www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Support us! www.peakperfs.org/donate/
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
More episode of The Talking Cure: www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Support us! www.peakperfs.org/donate/
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
More episode of The Talking Cure: www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Support us! www.peakperfs.org/donate/
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
More episode of The Talking Cure: www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Support us! www.peakperfs.org/donate/
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 More episodes of The Talking Cure https://www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Available in Soundcloud and iTunes
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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.
More episode of The Talking Cure: www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Also available in Soundcloud and iTunes Support us! www.peakperfs.org/donate/ Follow us! https://www.instagram.com/peakperfs/
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
More episode of The Talking Cure: www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Support us! www.peakperfs.org/donate/
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
More episode of The Talking Cure: www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Support us! www.peakperfs.org/donate/
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
More episode of The Talking Cure: www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Support us! www.peakperfs.org/donate/
Recorded remotely on April 29, via Zoom.
"Contemporary Circus... is the most exciting experimental art form right now" - Ruth Wikler
Ruth Wikler discusses Circus Arts before and after Covid-19. She is the Deputy Director of Programming, Circus Arts at TOHU, the North American centre for performance, creativity, experimentation, and convergence of culture, the environment and community involvement and also organizer of the MICC (International Market of Contemporary Circus) an annual event that brings together companies and industry presenters from all continents.
For more about TOHU visit tohu.ca/en/ Learn about MICC International Market of Contemporary Circus montrealcompletementcirque.com/en/professionals/
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
More episode of The Talking Cure: www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Support us! www.peakperfs.org/donate/
Recorded remotely on May 5, 2020 via Zoom.
In this episode of The Talking Cure: Conversations with Jedediah Wheeler, theatre artist, and visionary Stacy Klein talk about Double Edge theatre's living culture, moving from Boston to a farm in rural Massachusetts, and how she and her ensemble are imagining new ways to stay connected with the community in times of social distancing.
Learn more about Stacy Klein and Double Edge Theatre at https://doubleedgetheatre.org.
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
More episode of The Talking Cure: https://www.peakperfs.org/podcasts/ Support us! https://www.peakperfs.org/donate/
Recorded remotely on April 23, via Zoom.
In this episode of The Talking Cure: Conversations with Jedediah Wheeler, British choreographer Richard Alston talks about his final American engagement in the Alexander Kasser Theater, his knighthood and what inspired him to make dances during this 5O years of career.
For more about Richard Alston visit: https://www.peakperfs.org/event/richard-alston-dance-company/2020-02-20/
PODCAST: THE TALKING CURE, conversations with Jedediah Wheeler. Produced by Peak Performances and the Office of Arts and Cultural Programing at Montclair State University
Executive Director, Jedediah Wheeler Content Creator, Natalie Marx
Recorded on Feb 19, 2020 at WMSC Radio
In this episode of The Talking Cure: Conversations with Jedediah Wheeler, the avant-garde virtuosos of Gandini Juggling talks about his juggling career and the upcoming American premiere of SPRING, a collaboration with British choreographer Alexander Whitley
For more information visit: https://www.peakperfs.org/event/spring/2019-12-12/
PODCAST: THE TALKING CURE, conversations with Jedediah Wheeler. Produced by Peak Performances and the Office of Arts and Cultural Programing at Montclair State University
Executive Director, Jedediah Wheeler Producer, Natalie Marx
Recorded on December 10, 2019 at WMSC Radio
Podcast THE TALKING CURE: Conversations with Jedediah Wheeler
Augusta Read Thomas, composer of The Auditions, commissioned by Montclair State University and Peak Performances talks about her collaboration with choreographer, Troy Schumacher for the Martha Graham Dance Company. This new work has been designed to resonate with Graham’s classic, Appalachian Spring, which turns 75 this year. “America’s foremost new-music group” (Alex Ross), the International Contemporary Ensemble joins the Graham Company for these world-class renditions of new music by Thomas and the original Pulitzer Prize–winning score for Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland.
More: https://www.peakperfs.org/event/the-auditions/2019-11-14/
Produced Peak Performances and the Office of Arts and Cultural Programing at Montclair State University
Artistic Director, Jedediah Wheeler Producer, Natalie Marx
Recorded on July 31, 2019 at WMSC Radio
Podcast THE TALKING CURE: Conversations with Jedediah Wheeler
Janet Eilber, Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company and choreographer Troy Schumacher speak about the legendary Appalachian Spring in its 75th year anniversary and the new piece commissioned by Peak Performances, The Auditions, with music composed by Augusta Read Thomas.
https://www.peakperfs.org/event/the-auditions/2019-11-14/
Produced by Peak Performances and The Office of Arts and Cultural Programing at Montclair State University
Artistic Director, Jedediah Wheeler
Producer, Natalie Marx
Recorded on July 31, 2019 at WMSC Radio
Podcast THE TALKING CURE: Conversation with Jed Wheeler.
Peak Performances' Executive Director Jed Wheeler, filmmaker Lena Herzog’s and members of the audience share their first impressions after Herzog's immersive oratorio, Last Whispers, presented at the Alexander Kasser Theatre in Montclair State University.
Trained in linguistics and philosophy, Lena Herzog is a multimedia artist whose work has been exhibited around the world. Last Whispers, an immersive cinematic experience dedicated to vanishing languages, is the result of Herzog’s ongoing interest in indigenous dialects, which are disappearing at an astonishing rate. By 2050, half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken around the world will fall silent. In Herzog’s oratorio, the historical recordings of more than 40 endangered or lost languages come alive among the echoes of collapsing stars in a work The New Yorker critic Alex Ross calls “haunting and singular.”
More: https://www.peakperfs.org/event/last-whispers/2019-10-17/
Produced by Peak Performances and The Office of Arts and Cultural Programing at Montclair State University
Artistic Director, Jedediah Wheeler
Producer, Natalie Marx
Recorded on October 17, 2019 at WMSC Radio
Photo of Lena Herzog: Chantal Anderson for The New York Times Still of map from Last Whispers
Ep1: THE TALKING CURE: Conversations with Jedediah Wheeler
Anne Bogart, Elizabeth Streb and Charles Mee speak to Peak Performances' Executive DirectorJed Wheeler about their collaboration for the upcoming world premier of "Falling & Loving" at the Alexander Kasser Theatre.
More: https://www.peakperfs.org/event/falling-loving/2019-10-12/ https://streb.org http://siti.org
Produced Peak Performances and the Office of Arts and Cultural Programing at Montclair State University
Artistic Director, Jedediah Wheeler
Producer, Natalie Marx
Recorded on Sept 17, 2019 at WMSC Radio