Transfigured night

Belgian choreographer Stijn Celis gives us a poignant two-part piece about passion and forgiveness, the missing link between mythical and ordinary love.

Orpheus'gaze
Orpheus, a gifted musician, weds Eurydice, a nymph. On the day of their wedding, she perishes brutally. Devastated by his wife’s untimely death, Orpheus sets off for Hell to convince Hades, god of the underworld, to give him his loved one back.

Transfigured night
The woman reveals to her new lover that she is pregnant with another man’s child and each movement that follows this announcement contributes to the transfiguration and the radiant fusion of these two (three!) disparate beings into one, glowing whole.

Music
ORPHEUS' GAZE Alexander ZEMLINSKY: Sinfonietta, Op. 23: I: Sehr Lebhaft (Presto) Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, Canadian and U.S. agent for Universal Edition Vienna

Anton WEBERN: Passacaglia, Op. 1 Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, Canadian and U.S. agent for Universal Edition Vienna

Johann STRAUSS II: La Valse de l’Empereur (Kaiser-Walzer), Op. 437 Gustav MAHLER: Symphonie No. 1: Blumine Used by arrangement with Theodore Presser Company, music publisher and distributor

TRANSFIGURED NIGHT Arnold SCHOENBERG: La Nuit Transfigurée (Verklärte Nacht), Op.4 (Version pour orchestre de cordes Used by arrangement with Belmont Music Publishers