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.
Gehry theatre at bard roof.
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.
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.
A concert shell insert can be used to accommodate orchestral and chamber concerts.
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.
Likening the structure s stainless steel façade to a theatrical mask gehry finished the richard b.
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.
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The sosnoff theater seats approximately 800 people.
By robert campbell globe correspondent 8 9 2003.
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.
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It features a proscenium stage that accommodates opera music dance and theater.
The smaller of the two theaters is the flexible 200 seat luma theater which houses bard s.
Theater and performance are intrinsically collaborative art forms and collaboration and devised theater making are at the heart of bard s program.
Fisher center for the performing arts at new york s bard college in 2003.
Students study and perform in the landmark fisher center for the performing arts designed by frank gehry.
In many ways the relatively tiny fisher center for the performing arts at bard college is what many of us think of as gehry made.