Fran Díaz dares to do the unprecedented: In his Eurydike for the Leipzig Ballet, the mythological heroine is left to fend for herself in an airport terminal, a "non-place" where identity is up for negotiation at every checkpoint. Only Hades (with magnetic presence: Andrea Carino) moves freely through the crowd-control systems made of stanchions and ropes. Hasty businesspeople set the rhythm to which Eurydice slowly loses herself.
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Leipzig
Fran Díaz
Eurydice
And then that moment created by Laura Løwe’s stage design: the display boards tilt and descend glaringly upon Eurydice, and the travelers turn into moths swirling around the light. Monochromatic. Marcelino Libao dances this lost figure with a presence that asserts nothing yet sustains everything. Styx surges as a mass of helmeted security ...
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