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# New York City Ballet Art Series Presents DRIFT’s Shylight
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/new-york-city-ballet-art-series-drift-shylight/
- Published: 2023-01-06T19:04:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:13:21.000Z
- Description: The dancing sculpture will be on view at three special performances in January and February. Tickets are on sale now.
- Author: NYC Ballet
- Tags: Announcement, Exhibition Announcement, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:29 (2023, 2024, part 1)

Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta are the team behind DRIFT, a multidisciplinary group that creates experiential sculptures, installations, and performances, uniting audiences with moments that inspire a reconnection to our planet.

Their installation for [New York City Ballet’s Art Series 2023](http://bit.ly/3id9VVg?ref=hyperallergic.com) curates their Shylight into a site-specific, performative sculpture, uniting the movement of industrial motors with silk, multi-layered chalice-like structures that move with the grace of a dancer, into a natural choreography with the goal of finding live emotion and personality in an inanimate material. With custom choreography supervised by the artists themselves, Shylight’s unpredictable, natural-looking movements become an object that feels alive as it descends to blossom in all its glorious beauty, to subsequently close and retreat upward again.

The installation will be on view at three special NYC Ballet Art Series performances on January 27, February 3, and February 9, where all tickets are priced at $38.

**Performances are on sale now at** [**nycballet.com/artseries**](http://bit.ly/3id9VVg?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**

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