Gehry Theatre At Bard Roof

By robert campbell globe correspondent 8 9 2003.

Gehry theatre at bard roof.

The architect chose brushed stainless steel for the exterior of this 2003 music center so that the sculptural building would reflect light and color from the pastural landscape of new york s hudson valley. The sosnoff theater seats approximately 800 people. Frank gehry is the founder of los angeles based gehry partners llp a full service architectural firm with extensive experience in the design and construction of academic museum theatre performance and commercial projects around the world. Live arts bard lab the fisher center s residency and commissioning program is a laboratory for professional artists in theater dance and performance to test ideas and develop new projects many of which premiere at the fisher center.

A concert shell insert can be used to accommodate orchestral and chamber concerts. Last week we wrote about a new architectural masterpiece the dia. Students study and perform in the landmark fisher center for the performing arts designed by frank gehry. Beacon art museum in beacon n y.

Leon botstein the president of bard as well as the music director and principal conductor of the american symphony orchestra commissioned mr. Theater and performance are intrinsically collaborative art forms and collaboration and devised theater making are at the heart of bard s program. Gehry s plan calls for a glass enclosed 1 100 seat concert hall on one end plus a boxy 700 seat theater for dance chamber opera and experimental performance work. The smaller of the two theaters is the flexible 200 seat luma theater which houses bard s.

And gehry technologies a software and services firm whose mission is to leverage technology to make. Each year lab invites a number of artists and ensembles from the united states and abroad to be in. It features a proscenium stage that accommodates opera music dance and theater. Designed by gehry a new arts center is a performance in itself bard college complex marks a new stage for the luminary.

Gehry in 1996 to design the performing arts center. Fisher center for the performing arts at new york s bard college in 2003. The sosnoff theater an intimate 900 seat theater with an orchestra parterre and two balcony sections features an orchestra pit for opera and acoustics designed by yasuhisa toyota including an acoustic shell that turns the theater into a concert hall for performances of chamber and symphonic music.