Noemie Lafrance at flight of steps."Soldiers waited for an enemy that never came," says Noemie Lafrance, describing Fort Adams Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island was established on July 4th, 1799 as a First System coastal fortification. Its first commander was Captain John Henry who was later instrumental in starting the War of 1812. in Newport, Rhode Island Newport is a city in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Providence. It is the home of Naval Station Newport, housing the United States Naval War College, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and a major United States Navy training center. , the unconventional setting of her latest site-specific work, The Invisible Sins of Fort Adams. The work was commissioned and is performed by Island Moving Company as part of the Flight of Steps Noun 1. flight of steps - a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next flight of stairs, flight staircase, stairway - a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps festival. Audience members will be led through the tunnels of this abandoned military fort to encounter choreographed tableaux vivants that evoke each of the seven deadly sins. "I was interested in the dichotomy of the sins--their attraction and repulsion repulsion /re·pul·sion/ (re-pul´shun) 1. the act of driving apart or away; a force that tends to drive two bodies apart. 2. ," explains Lafrance. For "Anger," viewers stare down a narrow hallway studded by shafts of sunlight; a dancer thrashes in and out of the light and darkness. "It's an image of beauty and disgust," Lafrance says. "It's theatrical, but it's based in dance and movement and the space dramatizes everything." July 15, 16, 17. www.newportarts.org; www.sensproduction.org. |
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