Noli Timere: Aerial Dance in Flight Sept 26

Noli Timere takes the stage on Friday, September 26, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available now. Tickets are priced at $35 for the general public, $5 for Fairfield University students, and $25 dollars for members of the Quick Center. Fairfield University and Prep Faculty and Staff enjoy one free ticket to each event, with additional discounts available for guest tickets. Fairfield University students can also attend for free when faculty send their class list to the Quick Center Box Office at quickboxoffice@fairfield.edu. 

A soaring aerial dance performance, Noli Timere is the result of a five-year collaboration between Guggenheim Fellowship Award-winning choreographer Rebecca Lazier and world-renowned sculptor Janet Echelman. Eight multidisciplinary performers dance up to 25 feet in the air within a vast Echelman net sculpture, choreographed to an original score by French Canadian composer Jorane, who performs live on stage.

Blending contemporary dance, avant-garde circus, and sculpture, the performance explores the fragility and interconnectedness of our world. Meaning “be not afraid” in Latin, Noli Timere makes interconnectedness visible, showing how the smallest change can ripple across a system like the “Butterfly Effect.” Two massive net sculptures suspended by an intricate rigging system continually transform as performers fly and fall, creating a breathtaking interplay between movement and sculpture.