Translation (2017)
BalletCollective
Choreography: Troy Schumacher and Gabrielle Lamb
Music: Julianna Barwick

Through light, sound and movement, Translation explores the rapid evolution of communication we’re experiencing today: the abbreviation of words, the mediation of reality through our phone screens, the normalization of artificial intelligence and machine vision, etc.

Schumacher’s ballet takes its inspiration from a commissioned essay by cult science fiction writer and translator Ken Liu. Fusing speculative fiction with a philosophy of the mind, Liu’s work presents a haunting image of our mediated experience of reality through imagistic turns of phrase.