During The Hague’s Museum Night 2024, Polytope was shown at the ballroom of the Escher Museum. For this occasion, Ludmila Rodrigues invited Wen Chin Fu for playing the cello and Boston Gallacher to perform along the sculpture. Over five hours long, the two performers improvised and played along, exploring movement ideas based on Polytope.

Polytope is a lightweight, pliable sculpture, designed to engage the body in spontaneous choreographies. It has volume, and yet it is void. It re-defines space through the dialogue with the player. The sculpture consists of interwoven tetrahedrons, made of carbon fiber rods. Because the material is extremely light, the geometry can be endlessly re-articulated, morphing continuously in unison with the user; who in turn gets transformed and swayed by the sculpture. Polytope has been shown throughout the Netherlands, as well as abroad, such as in South Korea (2016), Bosnia-Herzegovina (2017), and in Brazil (2018 and 2023). Read more on the Polytope page.

Cellist Wen Chin Fu is a Taiwanese artist based in the Netherlands, is deeply immersed in The Hague’s vibrant art scene. Her artistic journey converges at the intersection of music, performance art and technological innovations through deep experimentation. She is also one of the founders of an artist-run community platform, iii, contributing to the development in the field of Art, Science & Technology in The Hague and beyond.

Dancer Boston Gallacher (they/them), from Glasgow, Scotland, was educated at the Dance School of Scotland and Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. They worked with Mark Baldwin and Itzik Galili at the Rambert Company in 2016. In August of 2016, they joined NDT 2, then NDT 1 from 2019 to 2024. In their time with the company, they have danced in works by Marina Mascarell, Medhi Walerski, Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar, and Sol Leόn & Paul Lightfoot, among others.

With thanks to Boston Gallacher, Wen Chin Fu, Mike Rijnierse, Judith Kadee, and Caro Verbeek.