Rebecca Lazier Noli Timere
Noli Timere is a soaring aerial dance performance, born from a five-year collaboration between Guggenheim Fellowship Award-winning director and choreographer Rebecca Lazier and world-renowned sculptor Janet Echelman. It features eight multidisciplinary performers dancing up to 25 feet in the air within a voluminous, custom-designed Echelman net sculpture, and is choreographed to an original score by French Canadian composer Jorane, who performs live on stage.
This fusion of contemporary dance, avant-garde circus, and sculpture explores the delicate interconnectedness and fragility of our world, offering a profound commentary on navigating our unstable ecosystem through art and advanced engineering.
Noli Timere – Latin for "be not afraid" – uniquely renders interconnectedness visible and tangible, illustrating how even the smallest change in one element can create a cascading effect throughout a system, like the “Butterfly Effect.” The design incorporates two 40 x 40-foot net sculptures suspended by a sophisticated rigging system on eight corners, which radically transform as performers fly and fall. This seamless interaction between movement and sculpture creates symbiotic relationships where choreography and sculpture continually transform and reshape one another.
This performance runs 60 minutes.