Pharrell Williams can put yet another feather in his cap (or, more often, fedora) as a composer for live dance and theatre with his score for The Rules of the Game, a performance piece for eight dancers with choreography by Jonah Bokaer and set design by the artist Daniel Arsham.
The performance, which takes its name and cues from the eponymous Absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello (1918), will premiere as the opening event for the Soluna international music and arts festival in Dallas, Texas, on 17 May, with the score performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
The Rules of the Game is the first endeavour for the trio, though Arsham has worked with both Bokaer and Williams before on projects such as a glass cast of Williams’s body for Girl, the show Williams curated at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris in 2014. Bokaer and Arsham—but sadly, not Williams—are due to attend the Dallas premiere.
Other events at the three-week annual festival, organised around the theme Myth and Legend for its second edition, include two performances by the artist Mai-Thu Perret at the Nasher Sculpture Center and an exhibition of work by the artist Paola Pivi at the Dallas Contemporary museum.