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AGORA

Choreography Noémie Lafrance

Score/Sound Design Brooks Williams & Norm Scott

Created in Collaboration With Dancers Lily Baldwin, Elise Knudson, Ayelen Liberona, Reba Mehan, Will Rawls

Dancers Laida Azkona, Joshua Bennett, Sarah Chiesa, Emily Christianson, Janessa Clark, Lisa Clementi, Jessica Cook, Jeffrey Crumrine, Annette Fletcher, Yuu Fujita, Monica Gillette, Donven Gilliard, Macushla Hill, Flora Ka Ching Hon, Tomomi Imai, Alexandra Johnson, Sheramy Keegan-Turcotte, Jon Kowalski, Sean Lau, Jenny Logan, Arthur Mangalji, Sandile Mbili, Adele Nickel, Rosario Ordonez, Gerard Reyes, Sara Robledo, Shana Simmons, Paul Singh, Storme Sundberg, Luke Wiley, Netta Yerushalmy

Other Artists Thomas Dunn, Lighting Design; Ayelen Liberona, Rehearsal Director; Jeremy Lydic, Set & Prop Design, Karen Young, Costumes;

Featuring Special Apparitions By: Leigh Garrett, Miss Saturn and Malcolm, STREB, The Young Dance Collective

Site McCarren Pool, Greenpoint/Williamsburg Main Arch (Lorimer St. between Driggs & Bayard Ave.)

Dates September 13 - October 1 2005 Tuesday - Saturday

Agora was inspired and created in celebration of the historic McCarren Park pool site, a 50,000 square foot abandoned pool in Williamsburg. The site-specific dance performance invited the community to re-experience a moment in movement in the monumental public space. Performed by 30 dancers displaying simultaneous events covering the vast expense of the pool basin, Agora produced the illusion of travel through the different layers of visceral urban experiences and explored the phenomenon of agoraphobia as a social and physical reaction to urban architecture.

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