Noémie Lafrance is an acclaimed site-specific Choreographer, Director and Producer based in New York City, known for her innovative use of public spaces and architecture to stage large-scale performances and films. Her work both reclaiming the public space and creating interactive theatrical experiences was said to have “Changed the fabric of New York City” – La Presse. Lafrance’s work invites audiences to participate in a creative experience of their own, immersing themselves in the architecture of their city, and offering them new vantage points from which to view the world.
Choreography for Audience (2012)
Choreography for Audience-Take One is a Short Film that was entirely performed by a participating audiance and filmed during a live performance. The choreographic/social experiement gathered teams of hundreds of people in a live human game. Participants followed algorithmic instructions to generate patterns and formations captured on film in a brid's eye view.
Director & Choreographer Noémie Lafrance
Captains Tamara Becharra, Caitlin Roberts, Mare Hieronimus, Shizu Homma, Kate Kelley, Adi Or Kfir, Jeff Lyon, Omar Nasir, Melissa Sanfio, Victor Sho, Sarah Wollschlager, Sandra Passirani
Producer Natalie Galazka
Director of Photography Michael Belcher
Editor Brad Turner
Score Adam Crystal
White Box (2011)
White Box (2011) is choreographed and conceived by Noémie Lafrance Staged within the confines of the gallery’s ‘white walls’, the minimalist dance performance challenges the implied separation between the art object and its viewing subject. Bringing the viewer to an awareness of being while watching, this participatory performance contemplates transforming the act of viewing art into the artwork itself.
Choreographed and Conceived by Noémie Lafrance
Dancers
Jennifer Carlson, Sarah Donnelly, Monica Dreidemie, Elle Erdman, Shandoah Goldman, Heather Hammond, Mare Hieronimus, Dages Keates, Adi Or Kfir, Teresa Kochis, Natalie Kuhn, Camille Litalien, Emma Lovewell, Omar Nasir, Julie Nelson, Sam Petersson, Zoe Schieber, Hanna-Lee Sakakibara, David Sutcliffe, Fabio A. Tavares DaSilva, Tiffany Watson, Elizabeth Wilkinson, Sarah Wollschlager
Melt (2008-2010)
Melt (2008-2010) is a site specific dance installation by Noémie Lafrance Eight dancers perched on a wall and wrapped in sculptural beeswax and lanolin costumes are slowly melting away, progressing in euphoria and exhaustion as if approaching the sun, melting until their souls escape their ephemeral bodies and disintegrate into light.
Choreography Noémie Lafrance
Score Erin McGoningle
Dancers Elizabeth Wilkinson, Mare Hieronimus, Teresa Kochis, Celeste Hastings, Ori Lenkinski, Adi Kfir, Meghan Merrill, Marcy Schlissel, Sarah Donnelly
Beeswax Costumes Noémie Lafrance
Technical Director Spencer Evans
Lighting Design Thomas Dunn
Home (2009)
Home (2009) is site-specific dance installation conceived and directed by Noémie Lafrance The Home performances invite the audience to convene around the body, interact with the performer and explore the body as a place. By way of a series of mise en scene that depict the micro and the macro body(ies), the subject and object body(ies), the body(ies) as public vs. private space, Home unfolds as a surreal and sensual voyage on the body's infinite landscapes.
Premiered April 2009, Williamsburg, NY.
Conceived & Directed by Noémie Lafrance
Performers Noémie Lafrance, Maré Hieronimus
Audience Attendants Celeste Hastings & Melissa Lockwood
Composer Brooks Williams
Lighting Thomas Dunn
Props Carlos Ancalmo, Randy Carfagno, Noémie Lafrance
Costumes Noémie Lafrance
Site Home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Eyes Nose Mouth (2009-2010)
Eyes Nose Mouth (2009) is a dance for film conceived, choreographed and directed by Noémie Lafrance The short film 'Eye nose mouth' is inspired by our body’s physical, emotional and psychological relationship to space. Exploring spaces that are public versus private, 'Eyes nose mouth' moves through the fluid stream of consciousness of three solitary characters, reacting to a series of changing urban and natural landscapes. The collage of settings creates a narrative thread that reflects on the characters' transforming emotional states and relationships.
Conceived, Choreographed and Directed by Noemie Lafrance
Creative Advisor Patrick Daughters
Composer Brooks Williams
Director of Photography Vinit Borrison
Dancers Mare Hieronimus, Ori Lenkinski, Jeffrey Lyon, Peter Jacobs
Assistant Director Ayelen Liberona
Offline Editor Ayelen Liberona
Online Editor Brad Turner