Award-winning New York City Ballet principal dancer, choreographer, actress, author, curator and designer, Tiler Peck brings her dazzling love letter to dance, Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends to Chicago for the first time! After its sold-out world premiere in New York, celebrated season in London, and numerous dates around the US, Peck is back with some of today’s most exciting dance artists for a virtuosic and innovative program.

Olivier Award Nominee and 2-time UK National Dance Awards winner, the program begins with The Barre Project, Blake Works II, a piece originally created for film with music by James Blake that marked the first creative partnership between Peck and choreographer William Forsythe. Peck’s own Thousandth Orange, set to live music by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw is next. Peck sought out West Coast legend Alonzo King to create the electric pas de deux, Swift Arrow, and the show closes with the irresistible New York City Center commission Time Spell, a collaboration between Peck and tap dance icon Michelle Dorrance, with Emmy-nominated Jillian Meyers and a powerhouse cast.

Bergamot Quartet will be performing on their unique Hardanger instruments at an intimate gathering in a home in Prospect Lefferts Garden, Brooklyn. 3 blocks from the Q train Prospect Park station or 2 train Sterling Street station.  Suggested donation $20. Reservations required because of limited space. Please send an email to pfriedman246@yahoo.com to reserve your spot!  Paul will respond to confirm the reservation, and will send the house address along with subway & walking directions. 
Allergy alert: cat & small dog in the house.

A virtuosically surgical multimedia work for amplified string quartet and multi-channel video by Paul Pinto performed by Bergamot Quartet and The Rhythm Method.

Commissioned by The Rhythm Method and Bergamot String Quartets, String Quartet No. 3 OCTET continues Paul Pinto’s playful exploration of video and theatrical chamber music. Just shy of an hour, the performance begins with a close-up on a tablescape of string instruments “operated” by four methodical musicians, their eight dexterous hands, and hundreds of pencils. Alternating through moments of Foreman-like precision and virtuosic irreverence, OCTET is a subtle and one-of-a-kind marriage of sonic slowness and visual anticipation.

Paul Pinto’s String Quartet No. 4: I PASS’D A CHURCH has become a cornerstone of The Rhythm Method’s repertoire, and was released on New Focus Recordings in 2024.

Credits for OCTET
Composed and directed by Paul Pinto
Zach Herchen, video and sound engineer

Performed by:
Bergamot Quartet (Friday at 7pm & 9pm)
Ledah Finck, violin
Sarah Thomas, violin
Martine Kinsella Thomas, viola
Irène Han, cello

The Rhythm Method (Saturday at 7pm & 9pm)
Leah Asher, violin
Marina Kifferstein, violin
Carrie Frey, viola
Meaghan Burke, cello

Run time: 50 minutes

Regular Tickets: $25
Students/Seniors: $15
Senior tickets for 65+, student tickets for students enrolled in a full-time program.

A virtuosically surgical multimedia work for amplified string quartet and multi-channel video by Paul Pinto performed by Bergamot Quartet and The Rhythm Method.

Commissioned by The Rhythm Method and Bergamot String Quartets, String Quartet No. 3 OCTET continues Paul Pinto’s playful exploration of video and theatrical chamber music. Just shy of an hour, the performance begins with a close-up on a tablescape of string instruments “operated” by four methodical musicians, their eight dexterous hands, and hundreds of pencils. Alternating through moments of Foreman-like precision and virtuosic irreverence, OCTET is a subtle and one-of-a-kind marriage of sonic slowness and visual anticipation.

Paul Pinto’s String Quartet No. 4: I PASS’D A CHURCH has become a cornerstone of The Rhythm Method’s repertoire, and was released on New Focus Recordings in 2024.

Credits for OCTET
Composed and directed by Paul Pinto
Zach Herchen, video and sound engineer

Performed by:
Bergamot Quartet (Friday at 7pm & 9pm)
Ledah Finck, violin
Sarah Thomas, violin
Martine Kinsella Thomas, viola
Irène Han, cello

The Rhythm Method (Saturday at 7pm & 9pm)
Leah Asher, violin
Marina Kifferstein, violin
Carrie Frey, viola
Meaghan Burke, cello

Run time: 50 minutes

Regular Tickets: $25
Students/Seniors: $15
Senior tickets for 65+, student tickets for students enrolled in a full-time program.

Princeton Sound Kitchen presents

Liam Elliot: ‘Resin’

An exhibition of sound installations by graduate student composers in the CoLab at the Lewis Arts Complex from Friday, October 24 – Sunday, October 26, 2025, culminates in a concert event featuring Princeton University graduate student composer Liam Elliot’s new work, ‘Resin,’ a piece which brings together Bergamot Quartet’s unique Hardanger instruments and Elliot’s newly created string feedback instrument to create a musical environment of sympathetic resonances. Sound installations by Gulli Björnsson, Sophie Cash, Ellie Cherry, Liam Elliot, and Hannah Ishizaki.

New works by

• Gulli Björnsson

• Sophie Cash

• Ellie Cherry

• Liam Elliot

• Hannah Ishizaki

Performed by

• Bergamot Quartet

• Liam Elliot

• Jason Treuting

• Dan Trueman

Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Start Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: The CoLab, Lewis Arts Complex, 122 Alexander Street, Princeton, NJ, 08544
Ticketing: Free, unticketed

Critically acclaimed on two continents, this “generous, boundless, turbo-charged” program (The Spectator) presents a showcase of 21st century choreography curated by ballerina Tiler Peck and featuring dance icons India Bradley, Chun Wai Chan, Michelle Dorrance, Lex Ishimoto, Roman Mejia, Mira Nadon, and more.

The program kicks off with maestro William Forsythe’s interpretation of the sinuous music of James Blake with lightning precision and force in The Barre Project, Blake Works II. Next up is Peck’s own Thousandth Orange, set to live music by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw. Then, Peck stars in West Coast legend Alonzo King’s electric pas de deux Swift Arrow. The show closes with the irresistible City Center commission Time Spell, a collaboration between Peck and tap dance icon Michelle Dorrance, with Emmy-nominated Jillian Meyers and a powerhouse cast.

Originally created for Peck's 2022 Artists at the Center residency, “the ballerina who can stop time” (The New York Times) returns to City Center with this thrilling, fan favorite blockbuster.

Critically acclaimed on two continents, this “generous, boundless, turbo-charged” program (The Spectator) presents a showcase of 21st century choreography curated by ballerina Tiler Peck and featuring dance icons India Bradley, Chun Wai Chan, Michelle Dorrance, Lex Ishimoto, Roman Mejia, Mira Nadon, and more.

The program kicks off with maestro William Forsythe’s interpretation of the sinuous music of James Blake with lightning precision and force in The Barre Project, Blake Works II. Next up is Peck’s own Thousandth Orange, set to live music by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw. Then, Peck stars in West Coast legend Alonzo King’s electric pas de deux Swift Arrow. The show closes with the irresistible City Center commission Time Spell, a collaboration between Peck and tap dance icon Michelle Dorrance, with Emmy-nominated Jillian Meyers and a powerhouse cast.

Originally created for Peck's 2022 Artists at the Center residency, “the ballerina who can stop time” (The New York Times) returns to City Center with this thrilling, fan favorite blockbuster.

Critically acclaimed on two continents, this “generous, boundless, turbo-charged” program (The Spectator) presents a showcase of 21st century choreography curated by ballerina Tiler Peck and featuring dance icons India Bradley, Chun Wai Chan, Michelle Dorrance, Lex Ishimoto, Roman Mejia, Mira Nadon, and more.

The program kicks off with maestro William Forsythe’s interpretation of the sinuous music of James Blake with lightning precision and force in The Barre Project, Blake Works II. Next up is Peck’s own Thousandth Orange, set to live music by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw. Then, Peck stars in West Coast legend Alonzo King’s electric pas de deux Swift Arrow. The show closes with the irresistible City Center commission Time Spell, a collaboration between Peck and tap dance icon Michelle Dorrance, with Emmy-nominated Jillian Meyers and a powerhouse cast.

Originally created for Peck's 2022 Artists at the Center residency, “the ballerina who can stop time” (The New York Times) returns to City Center with this thrilling, fan favorite blockbuster.

Come enjoy an intimate concert in a Bed-Stuy brownstone, as pianist/composer David Linard (www.davidlinard.com) celebrates the release of his EP, "For B", supported by sought-after contemporary music specialists Bergamot Quartet (www.bergamotquartet.com). Bergamot plays their set of Norwegian Hardanger instruments, one of only a few quartet sets in the world of these folk instruments.

Suggested donation is $15; doors at 7:00pm on October 11th.