Rules of the Game


Loosely based on Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” and “The Rules Of The Game,” Bokaer’s dance was created in collaboration with his long-time artistic partner, visual artist and filmmaker Daniel Arsham, and new to the team, composer and producer Pharrell Williams, who created an original score played by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Academy Award-winning composer, arranger and orchestrator David Campbell arranged and orchestrated the Pharrell music, which Campbell conducted at its world premiere.

The eight dancers perform against a kinetic backdrop created by Arsham’s film of ancient busts and a ceramic encrusted basketball that suggests the craggy face of the moon as it travels distances from far to dangerously close up. Alternately witty, alarming, poetic, violent, loving, “Rules Of The Game” suggests time past or time future. At times, a merging of the two.


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RECESS (2010)
Choreography and performance by Jonah Bokaer
Scenography by Daniel Arsham
Music by Stavros Gasparatos
Lighting design by Aaron Copp
Costumes by Richard Chai

Why Patterns (2011)
Choreography and direction by Jonah Bokaer
Scenography by Snarkitecture (Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen)
Music by Morton Feldman and Alexis Georgopoulos / ARP
Lighting design by Aaron Copp
Costumes by Richard Chai

Rules Of The Game (2016)
Choreography and direction by Jonah Bokaer
Scenography by Daniel Arsham
Original score by Pharrell Williams
Arranged and conducted by David Campbell
Exclusive recording by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Lighting design by Aaron Copp
Costumes by Chris Stamp / STAMPD

Rules Of The Game is co-commissioned by SOLUNA International Music & Arts Festival of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, BAM, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, with major presentation support at La Biennale de la Danse de Lyon and the Brisbane Festival, Australia.