The innovative world premiere spectacle at McCarter “Noli Timere”, Latin for “be not afraid,” is an outgrowth of creativeX’s NODES project. This groundbreaking aerial performance, developed through a through a five-year collaboration between Director/Choreographer - and Princeton University Professor - Rebecca Lazier and sculptor Janet Echelman, features eight multidisciplinary performers dancing up to 25 feet in the air within a voluminous, custom-designed Echelman net sculpture. Choreographed to an original score by JORANE, 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.
Post Show Conversation on February 7th
Join creativeX members Rebecca Lazier (choreographer, Professor of the Practice in Dance) Sigrid Adriaenssens (Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Janet Echelman(Visual Artist) as they discuss with Naomi Ehrich Leonard (creativeX founder, Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) the unconventional creative collaboration that incubated the early development of Noli Timere, while also generating new research exploring the complex structural behaviors of nets. Leigh Ann Vardy (lighting designer) and Jorane (composer) will join to help tell the story of creative collaboration in the making of Noli Timere.