NOLI TIMERE 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. This groundbreaking work is an international collaboration featuring multidisciplinary performers moving over, under and within a custom-designed Echelman net sculpture, suspended up to 25 feet in the air. Created with an original score by acclaimed Québécois composer Jorane, NOLI TIMERE fuses contemporary dance with avant-garde circus, art installation, and advanced engineering to explore how we navigate the uncertainties of a complex and ever-changing world.

NOLI TIMERE, Latin for "be not afraid," uniquely renders interconnectedness visible and tangible, illustrating how even the smallest change in one element can create a cascading effect throughout a system, like the “Butterfly Effect”. The visual design incorporates two 40 x 40-foot net sculptures suspended by a sophisticated rigging system on 8 corners, which transform as performers fly and fall. This seamless interaction between movement and sculpture creates symbiotic relationships where choreography and sculpture continually transform and reshape one another.

NOLI TIMERE is a full-length performance designed for indoor and outdoor venues. Presentations can include Relaxed Performances (sensory friendly), community programming including workshops that make the net world accessible to all, and Echelman’ sculpture is available for viewing before and after performances.

Through its awe-inspiring blend of movement, visual art, music, and social practice, NOLI TIMERE explores themes of resilience, adaptability, and transformation in the face of change and uncertainty, delivering a powerful reflection on how each of us navigate an unstable world.

REBECCA LAZIER
Rebecca Lazier, a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, is an award-winning director, choreographer and educator based in New York and Nova Scotia.  She has choreographed more than eighty works. Recognized as an audacious experimenter, Lazier creates works of explosive vitality inspired by the thinking and innovation that is possible through collaboration. Her “There Might Be Others”, was commissioned by New York Live Arts and won a New York Performance “Bessie” Award. Lazier is a Professor of the Practice at Princeton University.

JANET ECHELMAN
Janet Echelman - a renowned American sculptor, reshapes urban airspace with vast, moving sculptures that react to the environmental forces around them. Echelman combines ancient craft with state-of-the-art technology to create artworks that have become focal points for urban life on five continents and in North America. Echelman’s TED talk, “Taking Imagination Seriously”, has been translated into 35 languages and received more than two million views. www.echelman.com

JORANE
French Canadian composer Jorane combines classical cello and haunting vocals to craft unique, alternative music that draws on rock, folk, classical, and ambient styles. Her career has included 8 studio albums, film soundtracks, dance collaborations, and performances with symphony orchestras. Her collaborators have included the Orchestre Métropolitain, the I Musici ensemble, Margie Gillis, Michael Brook, and Sarah McLachlan. Her most recent album, Hemenetset, earned her nods at the Junos, Adisq, and GAMIQ. https://jorane.com

Y2D Productions
Y2D Productions was founded in 1999 by Creative Producer/Production Manager Gregory Parks. Its principal focus is the creation and touring of original, innovative and entertaining large-scale productions. Y2D Productions works with a broad spectrum of creative performers to develop sophisticated production concepts that combine various artistic forms into a single artistic work. These productions blend music, acrobatics, dance and theatre into a unique form of art and entertainment. The Y2D Productions team draws upon the creative talents of renowned directors, choreographers, lighting, set and costume designers, composers and performers. For each production Y2D Productions works with specific artists on the development of a project or production and oversees the touring of those projects nationally and internationally.

Director and Choreographer: 
Rebecca Lazier

Sculptor/Visual Artist: 
Janet Echelman and Studio Echelman

Music composed and performed by: 
Jorane

Lighting Design: 
Leigh Ann Vardy

Costume Design: 
Mary Jo Mecca

Rigging Design: 
Dominic Clement, James Leonard

Performers: Joaquin Barral, Zed Cezard, Clark Griffin, Valmont Harnois, Bia Pantojo, Raphaëlle Renucci, Gillian Seaward-Boone, and Madi Ward.

Creative Producer: 
Gregg Parks, Y2D Productions

Technical Director:
Rasmus Sylvest

Project Manager:
Gillian Seaward-Boone

Engineering Consultants:
Sigrid Adriaenssens and William Baker