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A Rift Over Art and Activism Ripples Through the Performance World A dispute between the director of Peak Performances and an Indigenous choreographer hinged on workplace behavior, power and the boundary between art and social justice. The choreographer Emily Johnson doing a land acknowledgment at Abrons Art Center in 2018.Credit.Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times March 12, 2021 At a conference of performing arts presenters, in January 2020, Jedediah Wheeler, the executive director of Peak Performances at Montclair State University in New Jersey, introduced the choreographer Emily Johnson. Wheeler called himself “the luckiest person in the room” to be commissioning her to make work. ....