Dancing on the rooftops.In June June: see month. Noemie Lafrance and her company took performance to new heights at Bard College Bard College, at Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.; founded 1860 as St. Stephen's College for men; rechartered 1935 as Bard College; became coeducational in 1944; affiliated with Columbia Univ. 1928–44. A small, progressive college, Bard stresses independent study. , when they danced RAPTURE on the rooftops. Taking a page out of Trisha Brown's book (her 1971 Roof Piece was performed on Soho rooftops), the performance was part of Dance Across Borders USA 2007. RAPTURE "celebrates the fluidity of Frank Gehry's architectural style in motion," says Lafrance, who choreographed and produced the show. Commissioned by Bard's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (right), the site-specific Site-specific is used in a range of contexts: In art Site-specific art In molecular biology Site-specific recombination piece will appear on outside roofs and walls of several different Gehry buildings around the world starting September 2008. See www.fishercenter.bard bard, in Wales, term originally used to refer to the order of minstrel-poets who composed and recited the poems that celebrated the feats of Celtic chieftains and warriors. .edu or www.sensproduction.org. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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