Nico Landrieux on the Intersection of Ballet and Code
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I am totally thrilled to introduce Nicolas Landrieux to you today. We met a few years ago at one of my workshops and have been in touch ever since. Nico is a vivid creative – with a background in graffiti he worked as a motion designer in Los Angeles, as a creative director for fashion brands in Germany and Belgium, he was a DJ, he is a music producer and most recently a director for dance theater. In May, the piece Vol[age] premiered at the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig and took the audience on an immersive journey through the development of computer technology. Nico composed and produced the music as well as all the visuals for the space. Much of these are renderings from Processing – creative coding played a hugely important role in the process. In this podcast we talk about his story, that piece and what’s up next for him.
- Concept, visuals, music, art direction: Nicolas Landrieux @exhausted_lab
- Production: @kunstkraftwerk_leipzig
- Dance company: @musikalischekomoedie (@oper_leipzig)
- Choreography: Mirko Mahr, Sara Brandão, @lol.ita.v
- Photography: Ida Zenna @izadennaphotography
- Camera: Federico Lanzini @federicolanzini
- Project Assistant: Laura Dominijanni @laura_dominijanni
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