Eurydice and the Moment
by Vasco Wellenkamp
Synopsis
Choreography: Vasco Wellenkamp
Music: Violin Concerto No. 2, Philip Glass for the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Costumes: Liliana Mendonça
Lighting Design : Orlando Worm
Dancers: Maria Mira, Ricardo Henriques
Orpheus loved Eurydice.
In a captivating love story, Eurydice was lost to Orpheus when misfortune befell her. Needing that love to justify his existence, Orpheus descended into the underworld of the Greek gods to rescue his beloved through his music. Set to Glass’s music, Wellenkamp presents this love greater than death itself. Consumed by passion and sensuality, this pair leads us to the deepest love, in a symbiotic relationship between music, movement, desire, and surrender. Between what separates them and what attracts them, a moment can be enough for “forever” to exist, or to be avoided. In their reunion, doubts vanish and love remains. In what seems irremediable, embraces are reconnected, bodies are held together again, emotions return to hearts. Deceived by phantoms, succumbing to deceptions, Eurydice remains in her death, while Orpheus walks in his loss.