By robert campbell globe correspondent 8 9 2003.
Gehry theatre at bard roof.
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.
A concert shell insert can be used to accommodate orchestral and chamber concerts.
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.
Theater and performance are intrinsically collaborative art forms and collaboration and devised theater making are at the heart of bard s program.
Sosnoff theater the fisher center was designed from the inside out beginning with the larger of the building s two theaters.
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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.
Students study and perform in the landmark fisher center for the performing arts designed by frank gehry.
Each year lab invites a number of artists and ensembles from the united states and abroad to be in.
Likening the structure s stainless steel façade to a theatrical mask gehry finished the richard b.
It features a proscenium stage that accommodates opera music dance and theater.
The sosnoff theater seats approximately 800 people.
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.
The smaller of the two theaters is the flexible 200 seat luma theater which houses bard s.
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.
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.
Fisher center for the performing arts at new york s bard college in 2003.
Leon botstein the president of bard as well as the music director and principal conductor of the american symphony orchestra commissioned mr.
