Ballet - De Keersmaeker/ Papadopoulos

Lyon Opera Ballet
Choreography : Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (La Nuit transfigurée) and Christos Papadopoulos (Mycellium)

Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's transposition of Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), a darkly romantic work that recounts a woman's heartbreaking confession to her lover that she is carrying another man's child, is a response to Arnold Schoenberg's statement that his music "is limited to painting nature and the interplay of human emotions".

Presented in the form of a "duet for three", this piece plunges the spectator into a dramatic and emotional intensity that dialogues with the way Christos Papadopoulos choreographs the innumerable shapes and movements of natural mechanisms. His Mycelium reinvents, through the interplay of bodily interactions, a dance that draws impulses from the complexity of fungal networks, intertwining with tree roots to create a dynamic network between the twenty dancers, supported by Coti K's electro music.

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