Created for the grand depart of the Tour de France 2014 from Yorkshire, Ghost Peloton fuses performance cycling with athletic choreography performed by Phoenix Dance Theatre’s dancers, and the varied landscapes of race route. Each rider, bike and performer was illuminated using NVA’s bespoke LED light suit, which can instantaneously change colour, flash-rate and luminosity. The rhythm of movement from the choreographed actions of massed participants becomes a source of creativity in itself, extending perception of the immediate setting.
It’s epic public art, operating at the grandest scale, where physical surroundings become an open canvas carrying a new visual language, expressing mood and movement, comprised of form, colour and line.
Ghost Peloton is an ambitious collaboration between NVA and Phoenix Dance Theatre, in partnership with Sustrans, created for Yorkshire Festival 2014.
Built To Ride Episode 3 was filmed at the Summit at Snoqualmie during Hiro and Ten’s hell track inspired “Excellent Rhythm Adventure.” Their whole concept of a BMX inspired jump track started as an idea for a smooth flowing rhythm section of five jumps, with steep lips and hallowed out decks all built for maximum air time. The course came together perfectly, transitioning very smooth from small to big with the jumps starting at a mellow twenty-foot gap up to the fifty-footer at the end with quarter pipes and pole jams sprinkled throughout the course. Watch Todd Kirby, Derrek Lever, Austin Hironaka and crew get buck wild on this mind melting course.