Project Description:

Arts Brookfield presented Looking Glass as a site-specific, sophisticated, bold and visually stunning reimagining of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Created by New York City’s Bessie Award-winning performance company Third Rail Projects, Looking Glass was a site-specific dance performance event that inhabited the gardens, plazas, and public areas of Bank of America Plaza in downtown Los Angeles from June 23-25, 2011. Programmed on a 30-minute loop for a two-hour period, audiences could come and go to the free performance, explore the gardens, watch short sections, or picnic and watch as a visually mesmerizing and lushly choreographed experience unfolded all around them.

Subsequently, Third Rail Projects' Looking Glass re-imagined Lewis Carroll's works as a site-adaptive, immersive performance experience at three sites in New York, from July 12–14 (One New York Plaza, Zuccotti Park, and World Financial Center) and at the Olana Historic Site, presented by the Hudson Opera House in Hudson, NY August 6, 2011. Future iterations of the project will move the work into a total immersive audience experience for a surprise site in New York in Spring of 2012. Stay tuned for updates.

CREATIVE TEAM

Co-Artistic Directors: Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, Jennine Willett

Featuring Collaborators:
Elizabeth Carena, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tara O’Con, Tori Sparks

Costumes: Karen Young

Music: Meiko’s Starlight Orchestra

Table Construction: Jedidia Dyer

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Credits:

Looking Glass is presented by Arts Brookfield as part of its 2011 summer program, premiering in Los Angeles at Bank of America Plaza, and in New York City at One New York Plaza, Zuccotti Park and World Financial Center as part of Arts Brookfield's Extraordinary Moves dance festival produced for the 2011 River To River Festival.

Brookfield Office Properties enlivens its public spaces through an acclaimed visual and performing arts program. Arts Brookfield is committed to working with regional artists and commissioning original works of art in all disciplines including visual art, dance. theater and music. These events offer artists unique opportunities to work in new and unusual spaces while providing provocative cultural experiences for tenants and visitors alike.

Third Rail Projects' performances of Looking Glass are also made possible, in part, by Materials for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Department of Sanitation, The Lucky Star Foundation and with support from Third Rail Projects' individual and institutional donors. _
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