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https://vimeo.com/381709010 Murmur, created by D. Chase Angier and Jennifer Salk, is a site responsive dance inspired by the unique landscape, art and architecture of Chateau La Coste in Provence France. With the often subtle and always powerful performances by Beth Graczyk, Jo Blake and Sean O'Bryan, Murmur blends live performance into the existing conversation betweenarchitecture, nature and art works created by Alexander Calder, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Louise Bourgeois. Film created by Evelyne Leblanc Roberge.

A Performance Installation byD. Chase Angierin collaboration with Luftwerk Featuring: Tiffany Mills Company, Kristi Spessard, Laurel Jay Carpenter, and Alfred PerformersSound Design: Andrew Deutsch, John LapradeCostume Design:  Marketa Fantova As The Air Moves Back From You, is a performance installation that addresses our place in the shifting  landscape during these times of rapid change.  The four-week episodic work includes 114 hours of exhibition, 20 hours of original sound design, 14.5 hours of performance, 10 performers, 10,000 pounds of rice and original multimedia work by Luftwerk. Every week, the installation changes with different configurations of rice, performers, types of performances ranging from dance to durational performance art, and different sound design.  The piece begins with an abundant 10,000 pounds of rice that slowly diminishes each week until there is only a handful of rice left, and…

 New York City This live public artwork captured the image of the city in motion and invited participants to spend the time to see, contemplate and perceive New York City deeply in that moment – to rediscover or mark their New York and their place in this city that is changing every moment. D. Chase Angier personally seated every audience member.  Over 1,500 audience members participated over the sixteen days of the exhibition. Edgewood Farms Framing Edgewood Farms, the first installment in the Framing Series, exhibited in upstate New York in 2012. Each work in the series asks a different set of questions depending on the site being framed. All of them investigate ideas of place and found choreography, as well as offering a shared public experience. Framing Edgewood Farms…

Letter to the World I Letter to the World was initially inspired by my visceral reaction to Architect / Anthropologist Franco La Cecia’s talk discussing the social impact of architecture and city planning given at the Prague Quadrennial 2011. The despair I felt, as he discussed a current trend of architecture which opts for increasing virtual connections with the outside world within each individual apartment over creating public squares or places for the public to gather, initiated these collaborative projects with Marketa Fantova and Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge. Letter to the World I - a dance theater work, and Letter to the World II - a video and live performance event in the Elks Lodge. Letter to the World III was performed at World Stage Design in Cardiff, Wales in three alternative…

Liminal is a large-scale, sculptural, time-based performance that was exhibited at the Fosdick-Nelson Art Gallery. It includes 9,000 pounds of white rock, and a small blue pool that creates a meditative environment designed by D. Chase Angier with Marketa Fantova. Ms. Fantova designed the nine-foot high costumes. Incorporating highly specific movement, original sound design by John Laprade and haunting visual elements, Liminal explores the tensions and deep desires that live in transitions.