TRANSLATION: An immersive ballet installation where light, movement and space become one.

Some performances are watched. Others are experienced from within.

Created by New York-based BalletCollective, TRANSLATION transforms contemporary ballet into an environment where the audience moves freely through shifting landscapes of light, architecture and sound. Rather than observing the dancers from a distance, visitors become part of the same living space, where perception changes with every step.



Directed by acclaimed choreographer Troy Schumacher, founder and Artistic Director of BalletCollective and former soloist with New York City Ballet, the project brings together an exceptional creative team.



Award-winning speculative fiction writer Ken Liu, immersive artist Sergio Mora-Diaz and composer Julianna Barwick combine choreography, installation, literature and sound into a single spatial experience.



Within this evolving environment, architectural silhouettes by DEMOBAZA naturally inhabit the installation's visual language.



Moving alongside the dancers through light, shadow and projection, they reveal new forms as the surrounding space continuously transforms.



Rather than defining the performance, they quietly become part of its rhythm.



At its core, TRANSLATION explores how movement reshapes the way we experience space, and how light, sound and the human body can exist as one continuous landscape.



It is less about watching a performance than entering another way of seeing.