Performance by Sasha Amaya
What lies between opera and choreography? How can people reshape their listening habits through spaces and images? What happens to the oldest stories when they are told by new voices?
"Orfeo" is Sasha Amaya‘s choreo-operatic research re-creation of Monteverdi’s 1607 opera based on the ancient Greek myth, through which she explores listening, proximity, power, and loss. Using the interface between music and movement, and a re-casting of feminine-read bodies for all roles, Amaya explores what happens if we turn our attention from Orfeo to Euridice in this fabled tale.
Balancing choreographic tools, musical expertise, and the relationality of bodies, the work juxtaposes tension and flow, restriction and agency, control and creativity.
Additional information
A production by Sasha Amaya, tour supported by the Canada Council for the Arts (CA), original production funded and supported by the Berlin Senate Department - IMPACT Funding (DE), the Canada Council for the Arts (CA) and ROXY Birsfelden (CH), co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Special thanks to Falk Grever and Elisabeth Leopold, Leo Hofmann, Sara Glojnaric, Rike Zöllner and Nicole van Straaten.
Media partnerships: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz - die tageszeitung, tip Berlin.
Special thanks to Falk Grever and Elisabeth Leopold, Leo Hofmann, Sara Glojnaric, Rike Zöllner and Nicole van Straaten.
Media partnerships: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz - die tageszeitung, tip Berlin.
Participating artists
Sasha Amaya (Konzept, Choreografie und musikalische Dramaturgie)
Sasha Amaya (Dramaturgie)
Sasha Amaya , Peyee Chen , Tasha Hess-Neustadt , Brieann Pasko (Performance)
Boram Ahn (Repetition und Keyboard)
Sasha Amaya, Isabelle Edi (Kostüm)
Catalina Fernández (Licht)
Dates
August 2025
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