RAPTURE

Choreography Noémie Lafrance
Dancers Heather Hammond, Corey Harrower, Gary Lai, Jeffrey Lyon, Chelsea O'Brian, Kevin O'Connor
Composer Janek Schaefer
Live 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
Producer Natalie Galazka

Site The exterior wall of the Frank Gehry-designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY click here

Travel to view Rapture: To fully experience Rapture, the audience is invited to travel around the building and view the performance from different vantage points.

Dates September 25-28, October 2-5, 2008, 7pm

The performance of Rapture was preceded by Manorfield, a study of topography and time, performed by Bard College Dance Students.

The Rapture Series will be performed on Gehry buildings worldwide. For more info click here

Commissioned by The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College as part of Summerscape and the Bard Music Festival.




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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.