Written by 75th Anniversary season
Art installation by David Michalek
At first glance, the white screens hung on the porticos of the David Koch Theater appeared to mask a renovation project. But then, slow motion projections inched across them, catching dancers between positions in awkward, pale movement.
Only when intermission and nightfall came did the intervention transform into something more sublime. Through the beaded curtains, the projections united with the city’s lights, growing increasingly opaque in the darkness.
The ghostly images merged with Lincoln Center’s plaza of concrete and glass. Pale apparitions materialized and united with the sparkling cityscape. Beyond the windows, dancers hovered like holograms as large as buildings.
From across the plaza, the Philharmonic’s colored lights enhanced the imagery, made compelling mostly by the great city that houses it.
