Activism in the Arts
GAMI/SIMONDS
represents exceptional artists that speak to the pulse of today’s world.
Noli Timere, Latin for “be not afraid”, is a soaring aerial performance, born from a 5-year collaboration between Guggenheim Fellowship Award-winning director and choreographer Rebecca Lazier and world renowned sculptor Janet Echelman. Eight multidisciplinary performers move under, over, and within a voluminous net sculpture, suspended up to 25 feet in the air.
Since NoliTimere premiered at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ in February 2025, it has toured 3 countries, 8 cities, 30 performances, 17 workshops!
Noli Timere dissolves the boundary between choreography and sculpture, creating a shared system in which movement and structure continuously transform one another. It’s a fearless weaving of light and motion [Arts Fuse, Boston], thoroughly thrilling [New England Theater Mirror, Boston].
With the stunning music [Theatre Mirror, Boston] by acclaimed Québécois composer JORANE, Noli Timere brings together contemporary dance, avant-garde circus, large-scale art installation, and advanced engineering to reflect on how we navigate an unstable world.
Noli Timere has toured five East coast cities, including five sold out performances with ArtsEmerson at the stunning Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston (January 2026) and a week-long campus-and-community lab with NC State Live in Raleigh, which culminated in Interweave Fest. In May 2026 Noli Timere had its Canadian premiere at Universite de Sherbrooke, QC followed by the Asian premiere of Noli Timere - a new 40 minute outdoor version created especially for the festival and performed in the round - at the Singapore International Festival of the Arts - 18 performances across two venues, reaching more than 9,000 audience members.
Nano Stern captivates audiences [Desenfoque, Madrid]. Multi-instrumentalist Stern delivers virtuosic, high-energy performances rooted in poetic social justice.
Considered the best Chilean singer songwriter of his generation [Joan Baez], Nano Stern stands out as one of the most important Latin American roots artists of his time, he is one of the leading exponents of a new generation of Chilean “canto popular” singers-songwriters [Santiago Times], he is enthusiastic, jubilant, spontaneous and versatile [La Prensa, Panama].
Armed with his virtuoso guitar and his staggering vocals, Nano Stern embraces concerts as if they were rituals. His performances take you on a journey in which the folk roots from his native Chile are combined with contemporary sounds to create a unique musical experience.
He packed out our largest venue, was given one of only two standing ovations of the whole Festival, … feedback received from his shows has been overwhelming. Heart, soul, virtuosity, pathos, humour and passion, he's got it all. Do yourself and your community a favour and book Nano Stern! [Chris Stone, Artistic Director, National Folk Festival of Australia in Canberra].