LeeSaar to Present FAME at Montclair State University 3/29-4/1, NJ

Peak Performances will present the world premiere of LeeSaar the Company's FAME at Montclair State University's Alexander Kasser Theater from March 29 to April 1.

Israeli-born choreographers Lee Sher and Saar Harari take a new, kaleidoscopic look at the subject in “FAME,” a 60-minute dance that premieres at Peak Performances, March 29-April 1. The work is commissioned by Peak Performances and co-commissioned by FuseBox Festival and testperformancetest in Austin, TX.

Through the prism of their unique backgrounds (Harari grew up on a farm in Israel while Sher began acting on Israeli television at the age of seven) and those of their international cast of dancers, the choreographers use their extreme physicality, based on Gaga training, to suggest and question related notions of innocence, savvy, iconography, hurt, brutality, anxiety, ambition, and the desire for love that are both culture-centric and culturally transcendent. The dance brims with athletic joy mixed with equal doses of pain, dark questioning, and empathy.

LeeSaar The Company’s singular choreographic process, which combines contemporary dance with elements of theater and creative input from its dancers, has won it rapid recognition in the United States, where it has received a 2007 Six Points Fellowship, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2008 NYFA Fellowship. In 2010, it received a BUILD Grant from NYFA, as well as financing from the Map Fund, the Greenwall Foundation, and The National Dance Project (New England Foundation for the Arts).

To learn more about LeeSaar The Company, please visit www.leesaar.com.

Photo Credit: Mark Garvin.