Concept : Frédéric FLAMAND / Thom MAYNE
Choreography : Frédéric FLAMAND
Scenography : Thom MAYNE (Pritzker Prize 2005)

Production : Ballet National de Marseille, La Biennale di Venezia, Charleroi/Danses
Coproduction : Het Muziektheater Amsterdam, La Maison des Arts de Créteil, l'Arsenal de Metz.
With the support of Le Théâtre La Passerelle - Scène Nationale de Gap

SILENT COLLISIONS is being included in the repertoire of the Ballet National de Marseille. The world premiere of SILENT COLLISIONS opened the first International Festival of Contemporary Dance at the Venice Biennale in June 2003.
Now part of the Ballet National de Marseille’s repertoire, SILENT COLLISIONS will be performed at Het Muziektheater – Amsterdam, Mercat de les Flors – Barcelona, Auditorium de Dijon and for the first time at the Théâtre National de Marseille – La Criée on 16, 17 & 18 June 2005.
SILENT COLLISIONS is currently being re-worked by dancers from the Ballet National de Marseille in collaboration with members of the Chaleroi / Dance – Plan K dance company who took part in the premiere in Venice. Continuing his long-term project " Danse & Architecture ", Frédéric Flamand joined forces for this production with the californian achitect Thom Mayne, founder of the Morphosis group and, with Franck O. Gehry, a key figure in new American architecture.
SILENT COLLISIONS drew its inspiration freely from Italo Calvino’s book " Invisible Cities ", a visionary work open to infinite interpretations. Through the body an approach to the city has been developed like a dynamic system made of tensions, ruptures and conflicts. As Calvino Emphasises, other than the exchange of goods there are exchanges of words, desires and memories that shape the city in the same way as architecture and town planning do, and make it " alive ". This led to the concept of a moveable, jointed structure for framing, influencing and responding to the choregraphy.