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Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet - Opera House, Manchester, 2015 - Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Tree of Codes, 2015 by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet
Opera House, Manchester, 2015
Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, light tests for Tree of Codes, 2015 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, light tests for Tree of Codes, 2015
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
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Olafur Eliasson developed the visual concept for the contemporary ballet Tree of Codes, choreographed by Wayne McGregor and with music composed by Jamie xx. The stage design uses intricate sets of reflective, transparent, and refractive surfaces and coloured light to create a dynamic, ever-evolving, and complexly layered space in which the dancers are multiplied and overlap. Lights panning over the audience cause its spectral image to appear on the stage's reflective, coloured scrims, integrating the viewers with the activity on the stage. Triggered by Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes (an artwork in the form of a book, which was in turn inspired by Street of Crocodiles, by Bruno Schulz), this new, evening-length work features a company of soloists from the Paris Opera Ballet and dancers from Wayne McGregor Random Dance.

 

Artwork details

Title

Tree of Codes

Year

2015

Materials

Wayne McGregor (director and choreographer), Olafur Eliasson (visual concept), Jamie xx (composer).