Eurydike

Ballet by Fran Díaz | Music by Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and others.

Duration: 2 hours | 1 intermission | ages 15 and up

Eurydice stays behind. Fran Díaz retells her story, often told in the shadow of Orpheus' song, for the Leipzig Ballet. Eurydice is not a marginal figure, not a muse, not a prisoner of a love that was destined for her. She is a woman searching for her path - in a world that both shapes and denies her desires.

Eurydike's myth unfolds in a society that constantly strives forward and yet often remains stuck looking back. In a world in which people become roles and relationships become expectations, Eurydice becomes a mirror for questions of our time: What does freedom mean? And how do we escape a system that defines us before we can find ourselves?

With a keen sense of the fairytale and the timeless, choreographer Fran Díaz opens up the space to rediscover Eurydice - as a symbol of resistance to getting lost in a whirlpool of guidelines, dreams and desires that are not our own.