Rapture is a site-specific choreography by Noémie Lafrance performed on the undulating roofs of the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The performance features dancers traveling across the entire structure of the building, using innovative rigging systems. Rapture captures the building’s dynamic architecture in movement, celebrating the striking fluidity of Frank Gehry’s design.
Choreography Noémie Lafrance
Dancers Heather Hammond, Corey Harrower, Gary Lai, Jeffrey Lyon, Chelsea O’Brian, Kevin O’Connor
Composer Janek SchaeferLive Strings Bard College Conservatory of Music
Costumes Noémie Lafrance
Lighting Design Thomas Dunn
Rigging Design Sean Riley, Gravity Design
Riggers Spencer Evans, Phil Ho, David Freitag
Site The exterior wall of the Frank Gehry-designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Dates September 25-28, October 2-5, 2008, 7pm
Commissioned by The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College as part of Summerscape and the Bard Music Festival.
Press
> Wall Street Journal
> L.A. Times
> Brooklyn Eagle
> London Sunday Times
> Financial Times
> Travel + Leisure
> Chronogram
> Dance Magazine, 2007
> Dance Magazine, 2008
> Architect’s Newspaper
> En Route
> Journal de Montreal
> WG
