Drift with the big apple metropolis ballet
Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta of DRIFT deliver their dancing flowers ‘Shylight’ within the Massive Apple as orchestrated lighting ensemble that gracefully bounces from and to the ceiling whereas following the beat of the music. The location-specific, performative gentle set up of Shylight visually speaks the character of New York Metropolis Ballet Artwork Collection by means of the uniting motion of the flower lamps’ industrial motors coupled with multi-layered chalice-like buildings silk.
As Shylight rises and falls, the collective trails behind the waterlike motion of ballet dancers, each of them slowly turning into resonant with each other. DRIFT has been tapped by New York Metropolis Ballet for its Artwork Collection which goals to cross-pollinate the disciplines of performing and visible arts by yearly inviting a up to date artist to create a site-specific murals in its Lincoln Middle residence.
With customized choreography supervised by the artists themselves, DRIFT’s Shylight presents unpredictable, natural-looking actions that shift into an object that feels alive because the dancing flowers descend to blossom in all its gentle and sweetness, to subsequently shut and retreat upward once more.
pictures courtesy of New York Metropolis Ballet | photographs by Andy Romer
Drift’s shylight attracts from floral species
Together with a multidisciplinary staff, DRIFT creates experiential sculptures, installations, and performances, uniting audiences with moments that encourage a reconnection to their environment. The studio staff has flown luminous drones over incompleted structure to invest on how the ensuing final result would possibly seem. They’ve additionally synchronized illuminated drones to wrap the Hamburg-located live performance corridor Elbphilharmonie with the light-emitting machines.
Earlier than visiting New York Metropolis Ballet, DRIFT’s Shylight graced Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Attracts from floral species that shut at night time for self-defense, in addition to to preserve their sources, the kinetic sculpture unfolds and retreats into itself in a blooming choreography alike the ensemble present in New York Metropolis. DRIFT’s dancing flowers in New York shall be on view at three particular New York Metropolis Ballet Artwork Collection performances on January twenty seventh, and February third and ninth. The ballet middle has opened the pool for ticket purchases on its website.
close-up of ‘Shylight’
DRIFT’s Shylight is accompanied with customized choreography supervised by the studio itself
Shylight is on view on the New York Metropolis Ballet till February twenty sixth
mission data:
title: Shylight
studio: DRIFT
artists: Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta
collaboration: New York Metropolis Ballet (Artwork Collection)
location: 20 Lincoln Middle Plaza, New York
matthew burgos | designboom
jan 28, 2023
