Édouard Lock - La La La Human Steps

Having previously created work set to the music of the eighteenth-century composer Rameau (in '2' and 'Les Boréades'), Édouard Lock has once again been inspired by the baroque repertoire. This Montreal choreographer likes the musical structures of baroque compositions. He believes there is a natural marriage between them and the precise movements on which he appears to have a patent. This time he asked the British composer Gavin Bryars to make a contemporary adaptation of Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas' and Gluck's 'Orpheus'. Édouard Lock then adds an extra perspective to these two tragic love stories: on the film screen we see what happens through the eyes of the three-headed hound which in Greek mythology guards the entrance to Hades. As a crowning touch the choreographer adds Diana Vishneva, the Russian ballet icon and prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre, to his ensemble. Abstract ballet solos on points alternate with freer dance duets that break the rules of classical role playing. This extraordinary evening of dance, which promises to be a consistently intelligent, virtuoso and many-layered mixture of visual and musical stimulation, is therefore definitely something to look forward to.