Zaha Hadid
Metapolis II
Ballet National de Marseille
Lincoln Center, New York

The third of a series of reflections on the contemporary city.

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As a part of this year"s Lincoln Center Festival Zaha Hadid has collaborated with Frédéric Flamand, director of the Ballet National de Marseille, on the creation of the piece "Metapolis II."

Set on a futuristic landscape drenched in shifting hues of radiant blue and green light, the high-energy work elegantly synthesizes video with the dancers’ moving bodies and Hadid’s interconnected silver sculptures.

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The interlocking set of three segmented arches and bridges made of a silvery mesh material serve as the star of the show. The three arches are constantly moved into new configurations to evoke varied experiences of urban life.

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At the back of the stage an enormous screen shows projections both of the dancers and of computer-generated architectural drawings and lines.

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Metapolis II reflects the Ballet National de Marseille’s radical aesthetic: a commitment to joining world-class architects who create a scenic design that intersects with ideas of the human body moving through space and time. Set on a futuristic landscape drenched in shifting hues of luminous blue and green light, the 70-minute ballet synthesizes film (created as the dance proceeds) with the dancers" moving bodies and Hadid"s interconnected silver sculptures. The dancers" movement, their kinetic play with the live film and their surprising reconfigurations of Hadid"s sculptures, create a constantly changing environment of compelling theatricality and intrigue.
Flamand has previously created dances with sets by such architects as Thom Mayne, Jean Nouvel, Dominque Perrault, and Elisabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio.

Frédéric Flamand and Zaha Hadid created an earlier version of the dance, called Metapolis, in 2000 for Charleroi/Danses-Plan K, Flamand"s former ensemble.
When Flamand learned in 2005 that Hadid had won the commission to design an office tower in Marseille for a shipping company, he and Hadid decided to take a new look at their previous collaboration.

“Zaha and I shared the idea of combining dancers, scenographic elements, and lights in a unique undertaking: making space dance. With Metapolis II I had thought I could contrast the ephemeral architecture of dance with the more lasting one of urbanism. By the end of it, I realized that they were both ephemeral, even if their timescales were different.”
Frédéric Flamand

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