Peter Bilak has designed the set for the Royal Swedish Ballet production of Totality in Parts featuring a multi-armed light structure controlled by computers.
The six-metre wide light installation hangs above the stage and consists of 512 lights arranged along 32 curved arms that together form a circular form.
Each of the 512 lights are controlled via separate digital multiplex system (DMX) channels. The brightness of each bulb can be adjusted to create a variety of light patterns that correspond with the choreography on stage.

The arms themselves also open and close like the petals of a sunflower during the Royal Swedish Ballet performance to create further lighting configurations that measure over eight metres wide.
Although the structure is nearly flat, the designers hope that the movement will allow the piece to look like a multidimensional sphere to the audience, emphasised by controlling the luminosity of each light.
Bilak, who also runs type foundry Typotheque, undertook the set design in collaboration with choreographer Luká? Timulak who created the movement for the production. The pair have worked together for nearly fifteen years, under their joint project the Make Move Think Foundation.

Rather than starting with choreography and making visuals and music to accompany the movement for the production, the choreographer and designer "both start to work at the same time, aligning their ideas along the way to develop all aspects of a new creation," they...