"Space, architecture and the body are interactive. Rather than dance in a space, one can make a space dance."
Olafur Eliasson
Created at the 2015 Manchester International Festival for the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet and Company Wayne McGregor, Tree of Codes possesses all the energy and vitality of a performance born of a collaboration between artists at the peak of their creativity – a collaboration, as so often in the past, born out of experimentation and common interest. Wayne McGregor draws inspiration from the novel by the American author Jonathan Safran Foer who chiselled his story from the pages of Bruno Schulz’s book, The Street of Crocodiles. He has turned to the talents of musician Jamie xx who has composed a score bordering on pop and electronica and entrusted the scenography to Olafur Eliasson, an artist internationally renowned for his monumental installations in London and New York. Carried by the sensorial music, the hypnotic interplay between mirrors and light reveals all the polysemy of the dancers’ movements, as if paring down the choreographer’s vocabulary as our gaze is literally brought into play.
Travis Clausen-KnightDanseurs (Studio Wayne McGregor)
Alvaro DuleDanseurs (Studio Wayne McGregor)
Louis McMillerDanseurs (Studio Wayne McGregor)
Daniela NeugebauerDanseurs (Studio Wayne McGregor)
James PettDanseurs (Studio Wayne McGregor)
Fukiko TakaseDanseurs (Studio Wayne McGregor)
Po-Lin TungDanseurs (Studio Wayne McGregor)
Jessica WrightDanseurs (Studio Wayne McGregor)
Recorded music
Les Étoiles, les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris
Et les danseurs de la Company Wayne McGregor
Commande de l’Opéra national de paris, du Manchester International Festival, de Park Avenue Armory, de Faena Art, du Sadler’s Wells et de Aarhus, capitale européenne de la culture 2017
Produced by Manchester International Festival, Paris Opera Ballet and Studio Wayne McGregor
At the Palais Garnier, Cat. 6 tickets (very restricted view, with a maximum of two tickets per person) are released for €10 on the day of the performance at the Palais Garnier box office.
At the Palais Garnier and the Opéra Bastille, discounted tickets are released starting 30 minutes before the performance:
€10, €25 and €35 tickets for under 28s, unemployed people (you will be asked for proof dated three months or less), 65+ senior citizens not subject to tax (you will be asked for proof of non-taxation for the current fiscal year)
€15, €40 and €70 tickets for 65+ senior citizens
Get samples of the operas and ballets at the Paris Opera gift shops: programmes, books, recordings, and also stationery, jewellery, shirts, homeware and honey from Paris Opera.
Palais Garnier
Every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and until performances end
Get in from Place de l’Opéra or from within the theatre’s public areas
At the Palais Garnier, Cat. 6 tickets (very restricted view, with a maximum of two tickets per person) are released for €10 on the day of the performance at the Palais Garnier box office.
At the Palais Garnier and the Opéra Bastille, discounted tickets are released starting 30 minutes before the performance:
€10, €25 and €35 tickets for under 28s, unemployed people (you will be asked for proof dated three months or less), 65+ senior citizens not subject to tax (you will be asked for proof of non-taxation for the current fiscal year)
€15, €40 and €70 tickets for 65+ senior citizens
Get samples of the operas and ballets at the Paris Opera gift shops: programmes, books, recordings, and also stationery, jewellery, shirts, homeware and honey from Paris Opera.
Palais Garnier
Every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and until performances end
Get in from Place de l’Opéra or from within the theatre’s public areas