Choreography Noémie Lafrance
Created in Collaboration With Dancers Lily Baldwin, Elise Knudson, Ayelen Liberona, Reba Mehan, Will Rawls
Dancers Laida Azkona, Joshua Bennett, Sarah Chiesa, Emily Christianson, Janessa Clark, Lisa Clementi, Jessica Cook, Jeffrey Crumrine, Annette Fletcher, Yuu Fujita, Monica Gillette, Donven Gilliard, Macushla Hill, Flora Ka Ching Hon, Tomomi Imai, Alexandra Johnson, Sheramy Keegan-Turcotte, Jon Kowalski, Sean Lau, Jenny Logan, Arthur Mangalji, Sandile Mbili, Adele Nickel, Rosario Ordonez, Gerard Reyes, Sara Robledo, Shana Simmons, Paul Singh, Storme Sundberg, Luke Wiley, Netta Yerushalmy
Score/Sound Design Brooks Williams & Norm Scott
Other Artists Thomas Dunn, Lighting Design; Ayelen Liberona, Rehearsal Director; Jeremy Lydic, Set & Prop Design, Karen Young, Costumes;
Featuring Special Apparitions by Leigh Garrett, Miss Saturn and Malcolm, STREB, The Young Dance Collective
Site McCarren Pool, Greenpoint/Williamsburg Main Arch (Lorimer St. between Driggs & Bayard Ave.)
Dates September 13 - October 1 2005 Tuesday - Saturday
Press
> Brooklyn Magazine 08/27/12
> Wall Street Journal 08/27/12
> Atomica Magazine 2/06
> Block Magazine 6/05
> Block Magazine 8/05
> Brooklyn Rail
> Culturebot.org
> Dance on Camera Journal
> Dance Magazine
> Dancing with Eva Yaa Asantewaa
> Greenline 7/05
> Greenline 9/05
> Greenline 10/05
> Greenpoint Star
> GO Brooklyn
> Gothamist.com
> The L Magazine
> Le Devoir
> Manhattan User's Guide
> New York Metro
> New York Newsday
> New York Sun
> New York Times 9/4/05
> New York Times 9/15/05
> The New Yorker
> Selecion Reader's Digest
> Time Out New York 8/05
> Time Out New York 9/05
> Time Out New York Kids
> Trace Magazine
> Village Voice 8/05
> Village Voice 9/05
> The Villager
> Vogue Italy 2/06
Media
Video
> A&E Breakfast with the Arts 9/05
> Bons baisers de France 12/05
Agora was inspired and created in celebration of the historic McCarren Park pool site, a 50,000 square foot abandoned pool in Williamsburg. The site-specific dance performance invited the community to re-experience a moment in movement in the monumental public space. Performed by 30 dancers displaying simultaneous events covering the vast expense of the pool basin, Agora produced the illusion of travel through the different layers of visceral urban experiences and explored the phenomenon of agoraphobia as a social and physical reaction to urban architecture.
Agora
Agora Clip
