Arts & Entertainment
Aerial Dance Performance Noli Timere to Soar at the Quick Center, Sept. 26
The event features a groundbreaking collaboration with world-renowned sculptor Janet Echelman and live music by composer Jorane.
Press release
FAIRFIELD — Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts is proud to present Noli Timere, a soaring aerial dance performance by acclaimed director and choreographer Rebecca Lazier, on Friday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m. The event features a groundbreaking collaboration with world-renowned sculptor Janet Echelman and live music by French Canadian composer Jorane.
Noli Timere, Latin for “be not afraid,” has been developed over a five-year collaboration and features eight multidisciplinary performers dancing up to 25 feet in the air within a massive, custom-designed Echelman net sculpture. The immersive work fuses contemporary dance, avant-garde circus, large-scale sculpture, and advanced engineering to explore interconnectedness, fragility, and resilience in our unstable world.
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“I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful. That’s what I aim for,” Echelman said. “My sculpture is about the way you feel when you’re standing under it and inside it. It’s experiential art.”
The performance showcases two suspended 40 x 40-foot net sculptures that transform as performers fly, fall, and weave through them, with choreography and sculpture continually reshaping one another. Through its dynamic interplay of movement, music, and installation, Noli Timere offers a powerful reflection on how small shifts within a system can create cascading effects—an artistic rendering of the “Butterfly Effect.”
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The presentation of Noli Timere is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. This event is sponsored by the Quebec Government Office in Boston, Silverman Group, and New England Foundation for the Arts. Tickets are now on sale on quickcenter.com for $35, or $25 for Quick Members. For more information, contact the Quick Center Box Office at 203-254-4010, Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
