Park Avenue Armory,current York[br]Collaboration between Jamie xx, Wayne McGregor and Olafur Eliasson may not be profound, and but it has a historical precedent in attempting to combine art forms to create a stirring of the soulIt sounds like a dozen diligent (showing care in doing one's work) schoolchildren wearing tap shoes and keeping staccato time. Upbeat piano chords struck in a major key soon accompany this beat before they are overlaid with a swooping string section. Meanwhile,the room is pitch black.
Soon the darkened stage fills with constellations of dancers wearing bodysuits flecked with lights. They gambol like unusually graceful air traffic controllers signalling their landing paths at the audience.
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Source: theguardian.com