Looking Glass

Los Angeles & New York

“… a sort of terpsichorean perfect storm” – Jacqueline Vergara Amézquita, Downtown Los Angeles News

About Looking Glass

Bank of America Plaza, Los Angeles
One New York Plaza, Brookfield Place, and Zucotti Park, New York (2011)

Arts Brookfield presented Looking Glass as a site-specific, sophisticated, bold and visually stunning reimagining of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Created by New York City’s Bessie Award-winning performance company Third Rail Projects, Looking Glass was a site-specific dance performance event that inhabited the gardens, plazas, and public areas of Bank of America Plaza in downtown Los Angeles from June 23rd – 25th, 2011. Programmed on a 30-minute loop for a two-hour period, audiences could come and go to the free performance, explore the gardens, watch short sections, or picnic and watch as a visually mesmerizing and lushly choreographed experience unfolded all around them.

Subsequently, Third Rail Projects’ Looking Glass re-imagined Lewis Carroll’s works as a site-adaptive, immersive performance experience at three sites in New York, from July 12th – 14th (One New York Plaza, Zuccotti Park, and World Financial Center).

“… a decidedly unusual route. Instead of a single long performance, Looking Glass is a repeating 20-minute show. As soon as one ends, another begins, and they continue for two hours. The goal is to give Downtowners on a short break a chance to follow a story with Alice, the White Rabbit, the White Queen, the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and more.” – Jacqueline Vergara Amézquita, Downtown Los Angeles News

Photos

  • Tara Ocon

    Photo by Wendy Le

  • Tori Sparks, Tara Ocon

    Photo by Wendy Le

  • Elizabeth Carena

    Photo by Wendy Le

  • Tom Pearson, Tara Ocon

    Photoby Darial Sneed

  • Tom Pearson, Marissa Niselen-Pincus

    Photo by Teal Moss

  • Jennine Willett, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus

    Photo by Adam Jason Photograpy

  • Tom Pearson, Tara Ocon

    Photo by Daial Sneed

  • Elizabeth Carena

    Photo by Adam Jason Photograpy

  • Tori Sparks

    Photo by Adam Jason Photograpy

  • Cast of Looking Glass

    Photo by Teal Moss

  • Tara Ocon

    Photo by Teal Moss

  • Tori Sparks

    Photo by Teal Moss

  • Jennine Willett

    Photo by Darial Sneed

  • Marissa Nielsen-Pincus

    Photo by Darial Sneed

  • Tom Pearson, Tori Sparks

    Photo by Darial Sneed

  • Elizabeth Carena

    Photo by Darial Sneed

  • Jennine Willett, Tori Sparks

    Photo by Darial Sneed

  • Tara Ocon, Tom Pearson

    Photo by Darial Sneed

  • Tara Ocon, Tori Sparks

    Photo courtesy of Arts Brookfield

  • Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tom Pearson

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Elizabeth Carena

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Tara Ocon, Tom Pearson

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Jennine Willett, Tori Sparks

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Elizabeth Carena

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Tara Ocon, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Tori Sparks

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Cast of Looking Glass

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Cast of Looking Glass

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Jennine Willett, Tori Sparks

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tara Ocon

    Photo by Wendy Le

  • Marissa Nielsen-Pincus

    Photo by Wendy Le

  • Cast of Looking Glass

    Photo by Adam Jason Photography

  • Jennine Willett

    Photo by Darial Sneed

Credits

Looking Glass

Bank of America Plaza
Los Angeles, CA
June 23rd – 25th, 2011

One New York Plaza, Zuccotti Park,
and the World Financial Center
New York, NY
July 12th – 14th, 2011

Creative Team

Written, Directed, and Choreographed by
Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, Jennine Willett

Created in Collaboration with and Performed by
Elizabeth Carena, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tara O’Con, Tom Pearson, Tori Sparks, and Jennine Willett

Production Staff

Composer: Meiko’s Starlight Orchestra
Costume Design: Karen Young
Table Construction: Jedidia Dyer

Project Support

Looking Glass was presented by Arts Brookfield as part of its 2011 summer program, premiering in Los Angeles at Bank of America Plaza, and in New York City at One New York Plaza, Zuccotti Park and World Financial Center as part of Arts Brookfield’s Extraordinary Moves dance festival produced for the 2011 River To River Festival.

Third Rail Projects’ performances of Looking Glass were also made possible, in part, by Materials for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Department of Sanitation, The Lucky Star Foundation and with support from Third Rail Projects’ individual and institutional donors.Project Support

Beautiful Dreamer was made possible, in part, by Kuumba Dance & Drum, Operation Unite, NY, Materials for the Arts/DCA and Department of Sanitation; and was developed during the TOPAZ ARTS Choreography Residency Program made possible, in part, by NYS DanceForce with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional material was created with support from Abrons Arts Center; and by Third Rail Projects, with support from the Lucky Star Foundation and individual and institutional donors.

Press Coverage

LA Downtown News | Feature | June 20, 2011
Go Ask Alice

By Jacqueline Vergara Amezquita