ORFEO
- Dance & Performance
- Part of the CONNECT #5 Contemporary Dance Festival
- Recommended age: 12+
1 hr 30 min
Info
What lies between opera and the choreographic? What happens to our oldest stories when they are told through new voices? “ORFEO” is Sasha Amaya’s choreo-operatic research re-creation of Monteverdi’s 1607 opera, through which she explores listening, proximity, power, and loss. Using the interface between music and movement, Amaya turns our attention from Orfeo to Euridice, juxtaposing tension and flow, restriction and agency, control and creativity.
Credits:
Concept, choreography and musical dramaturgy: Sasha Amaya
Performance: Sasha Amaya, Peyee Chen, Brieann Pasko, Amara Thomas Saavedra
Repetition and keyboard: Boram Ahn
Costume design: Sasha Amaya, Isabelle Edi, with corsets crafted by Zamea
Light: Catalina Fernández
Touring and technical support: Leo Hofmann
Production: Sasha Amaya
With additional support from: Tasha Hess-Neustadt, Leo Hofmann, Dandan Liu (outside eye and project support), Rike Zöllner (tailoring), Raquel Rosildete
Biography
Sasha Amaya is a Colombian Canadian dancer, choreographer, and installation artist. She studied classical ballet at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, followed by degrees in philosophy, art, and architecture at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Art Stockholm. Amaya is occupied with form, new techniques, othered forms of being and knowing, doubt, friction, magic, music, and girlhood. Her work has shown at Sophiensæle, Radialsystem, fabrik Potsdam, and Somerset House London.
The tour is additionally supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Orfeo produced by Sasha Amaya with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Berlin Senate Department — IMPACT Funding,ROXY Birsfelden, Switzerland, and in co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin
The performance “ORFEO” is presented as part of the 5th edition of the CONNECT Contemporary Dance Festival, organized by the Delazero Association, with the support of the National Centre for Dance Bucharest and the Goethe-Institut Bucharest. The project is co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and does not necessarily reflect the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how the project’s results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grant recipient.
