Jamie xx composed the score using an algorithm that turns the text into music, often to great effect, although some of music towards the end has echoes of Philip Glass – all the staccato pips and pops of strings and synths. The Olivier award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor has gone even more meta with this, and created something new and strange out of Safran Foer’s experiment, in collaboration with xx, visual artist Olafur Eliasson and the Paris Opera Ballet, who have loaned two dancers - Lucie Fenwick and Julien Meyzindi – to the Melbourne show, with a cast rounded out by Company Wayne McGregor. In this book, Safran Foer took another text, Bruno Schulz’s 1934 short story collection The Street of Crocodiles, and literally – with scissors – cut words out of the book, changing the text on each page you flipped to. The work is inspired by a short, strange book by novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, the author of Everything is Illuminated. At 75 minutes, the stage is constantly alive with movement, refracted light, evolving sets.
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