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Architect Frank Gehry filled a stage with crumpled paper for a recent production of the Mozart opera Don Giovanni.
The performances took place at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the venue designed by Gehry that opened back in 2003.
White platforms were scattered amongst the scrunched-up lengths of paper and could be moved around to create a huge staircase at the centre of the stage.
The performances took place at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the venue designed by Gehry that opened back in 2003.
White platforms were scattered amongst the scrunched-up lengths of paper and could be moved around to create a huge staircase at the centre of the stage.
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B. Available Light dance performance stage
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In 1983, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles commissioned an unlikely trio of emerging artists to collaborate on a site-specific dance piece: the choreographer Lucinda Childs, the composer John Adams, and the architect Frank Gehry.
Gehry, who at that time had gained notoriety for his avant-garde residential work and his scrappy material sensibility, conceived of a minimalist, two-story stage, supported by aluminum-framed boxes and backed by a humble chain link fence.
Gehry, who at that time had gained notoriety for his avant-garde residential work and his scrappy material sensibility, conceived of a minimalist, two-story stage, supported by aluminum-framed boxes and backed by a humble chain link fence.
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C."A Pierre Dream" a tribute stage to the musical genius Pierre Boulez.
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A Pierre Dream is an acoustic and theatrical journey through a lifetime of musical adventures, innovations and discoveries, performed within a specially commissioned design by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. The production mixes live performance of works spanning over six decades of Boulez’s creative career with rare on-screen archival footage and new interviews.
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Gehry designed a dozen rectangular screens. There were many panels, each showing Boulez at different ages and morphing at slow speed into another image. Meanwhile decorative light patterns populated the stage. The orchestra members were fit between the set, as opposed to the other way around.