Dec 18Dec 22, 2024
CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS, BALLET DE L’OPÉRA DE LYON
Mycelium
A COMPOSITION OF UTTER REFINEMENT WITH DANCERS WHO APPEAR TO BE LINKED BY INVISIBLE THREADS.
It was September 2023 and the opening of the Lyon Biennale dance program, and it was the first time Christos Papadopoulos had been invited to create a work for large ensemble. How logical that his pointillist style inspired by nature’s complex interwoven structures should attain its true destiny. Twenty dancers with the Opéra de Lyon ballet troupe join together in movements of great subtlety, driven by an imperceptible force. The choreographer from Greece and poet of the art of gradually unraveling unison likes to show worlds verging on the invisible and has chosen the phenomenon of mycelium with its ramifications and complex of buried filaments providing a communication network for fungus. Mycelium is a choreography of transmission through contagion, working on
Thomas Hahn
Choreography Christos Papadopoulos
Chreography assistant Georgios Kotsifakis
Music Coti K.
Lighting Eliza Alexandropoulou
Costumes Angelos Mentis
Ballet masters Amandine François
Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon
Direction Cédric Andrieux
24 dancers alternating
Création en septembre 2023 pour le Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon.
Coproduction Opéra de Lyon – Biennale de la danse – Théâtre de la Ville-Paris.
Wed 18 Dec 2024
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Sun 22 Dec 2024
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