Category: Projects

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.

The Waiting Series consists of six image-based works, performed over a decade, that uses carefully chosen distilled movement and evocative music.  “Fine story telling…. making time elastic enough to tell a tale of generations…layered, strangely wistful “– Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times. John Laprade creates original compositions that poignantly connects many of the pieces in this thematic series. Collaboratively created with visual artists Marketa Fantova, Lisa Vining, Judi Strahota, Jen McClur, and Angie To, the work has been performed in multiple art galleries and theaters in New York.

For D. Chase Angier's 50th birthday, she  decided to lure her friends from far and near to her Funeral Dress Rehearsal. She had attended many funerals and had often thought they could have been better with just a little more rehearsal. She began the dress rehearsal with  instructions for her funeral, and had live performances by Brian Brooks, Robert Bingham, the Alfred Ceramists and her husband and son to further illustrate her demands/requests. All of the funeral guests were asked to wear  funeral attire. She had video auditions for the funeral officiator and a rehearsal video eulogy.  Officiator Audition Visual Artist Angie To built the casket made out of biodegradable cardboard, and Angier created the choreography for the pallbearers. Choreography for Pallbearers First attempt at a Eulogy   The evening ended with a 70’s…

Circling was an immersive site specific performance at Foster Lake in Alfred, New York.  The audience was led slowly around the lake in silence, taking in the sounds, smells, and sights.  The audience stopped at various vantage points to experience performance events occurring across the lake, on the lake, and surrounding them around them in the woods. Circling was performed by members of D. Chase Angier’s Site Specific Performance course at Alfred University.  Please visit ausitespecificperformance.blogspot.com  

A guided, performative event, Dreams of the Other Side unfolded in the woods, marshes, and on a lake surrounding the audience during the height of fall foliage season. As the audience was led around the lake, eight dancers moved slowly to the music of Georgy Sviridov that was performed live by over twenty singers. Vocalists in cascading dresses sang from a dock, a small island, and on an old rowboat that moved in rhythm with the audience, offering a multi-sensory experience. Created by Marketa Fantova and D. Chase Angier in collaboration with the Alfred University site specific performance and design students, Luanne Crosby as a soloist, and the Alfred Chamber Singers directed by Luanne Crosby.

Performed underneath a sparkling installation created with 2,600 pieces of mylar, sixteen dancers perform several dances that address romance, soap operas, and the stars of a benign sky. Created specifically for this site, Angier uses the balconies, the rusted aesthetics of the space implying memories of better times, and delicious music to house the multiple dances. Over 200 people attended the performance that was part of the Triangle Arts Project in Denton Texas. Choreographed by D. Chase Angier in collaboration with the performers Installation Design by D. Chase Angier Performed by Gabrielle Aufiero, Krissy Barcenas, Whitney Boomer, Crysta Caulkins, Elyse Cox, Amanda McCorkle, Danielle Monks, Lourdes Pelaez, Imara Quinonez, Stephanie Reed, Julie Rowley, Elva Salinas, Lauren Schieffer, Melissa Watt, Megan Yankee Music by Misia, Kirsty MacColl, Papa Mali For more…