A group of performers engages in an aerial dance performance beneath large, multicolored net structures suspended above the stage. Two dancers balance and intertwine high above the ground on the netting, while others on the stage below hold and manipulate the fabric. The nets are illuminated with vibrant, shifting lights in shades of red, purple, blue, green, and yellow, creating a dynamic, wave-like effect against the dark background.

Noli Timere

Presented by ArtsEmerson
WHERE
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre 219 Tremont Street , Boston
WHEN
January 29 2026 — 7:30 pm
January 30 2026 — 8:00 pm
January 31 2026 — 2:00 pm
January 31 2026 — 8:00 pm
February 1 2026 — 2:00 pm
COST
$28 - $100

A visually stunning fusion of soaring aerial dance and modern circus.

Noli Timere is a soaring aerial performance featuring eight extraordinary, multidisciplinary performers moving over and within a custom designed net sculpture, suspended up to 25 feet in the air. Conceived by Guggenheim Award-winning choreographer Rebecca Lazier in partnership with world-renowned sculptor Janet Echelman, Noli Timere presents a seamless, symbiotic interaction between movement and sculpture in which both are continually reshaped and transformed by one another. Created with original music by acclaimed Quebecoise composer Jorane, Noli Timere fuses contemporary dance and avant-garde circus with art installation and advanced engineering to question how we navigate an unstable world.

The culmination of a 5-year collaboration, Noli Timere, Latin for ‘be not afraid’, uniquely renders interconnectedness visible and tangible–demonstrating, like the Butterfly Effect, how a change in one element generates cascading reverberations throughout a whole system. Noli Timere offers a mesmerizing kinesthetic metaphor and meditation upon the challenges of global interconnection.

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