"Purcell's Dido & Aeneas and Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice must be the most choreographed operas in the repertory. Their buoyant, punchy baroque rhythms, and the simple arc of their plots, lend themselves naturally to dance. Canadian choreographer Édouard Lock joins the illustrious line of Balanchine, Bausch and Morris in tackling these two classics. But Lock is a refusenik when it comes to dance narrative, believing that even the most basic of stories is not carried well by pure movement. So his own interpretation, modestly titled New Work, is presented as an abstraction of the tragic love affairs at the heart of both operas: uniting them into a single choreographic meditation on yearning, anger and loss."
Guardian
Telegraph
YouTube: New Work
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