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ORPHEUS AND EURYDIKE

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The Performance/Musical Choreography

PROLOGUE: THE GAZE OF ORPHEUS

Morehead/Winsberg/Tobias

EPILOGUE: THE DISMEMBERMENT

Birringer/Kraft


I. DISMEMBERED: EURYIDKE IN THE OTHERWORLD

Solar Wind - Winsberg

Water Music - Tobias


II. RE-MEMBERING

Koran I - Tobias

Concrete River - Winsberg

Koran II - Tobias


Mirror Box - Morehead


III. ARIEN

Che faro senza Eurydike - Gluck

Orfeo - Monteverdi

Deconstruction - Gluck/Tobias/Winsberg/Ganz


IV. HACIENDO CARAS

Ensemble

V. ON THE BORDER

On the Border - Tobias

Spiral dance - Morehead

Without Boundaries - Winsberg/Tobias

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The Concept

The opera challenges the archetypal myths of Western musical structure and the familiar narrative of female sacrifice and redemption that underlies the history of Western opera. The ensemble has created a provocative new look at the sexual fantasy of redemption through the eyes and ears of Euydike (performed by 19 female artists in a multicultural cast) as she explores women's experience as objects of male fantasies as well as subjects of their own actions and imaginations.

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Keeping step with the story

I make my way into death

To speak with my voice

To dance with my body

I did not want anything more, anything different.

Only there, at the uttermost border of my life

Can I name it to myself

There is something of everyone in me

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