Beyond the Clouds
When the lights for “Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503” come up on four dancers silhouetted by refracted light of a billowing cloud of fog, the scene rivals halftime at the Superbowl.
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Backdropped in layers of flowy plastic sheeting, an enormous inflatable nut brown sow dominates the stage. Projected video make it appear uncannilly as if it’s breathing. The sow lies on her side peering out at the audience with a weepy eye. The English expression, in a pig’s eye, often emphatically means Like hell I will or I won’t do it and It seems, at least to me, that’s partly the message choreographer Silvana Cardell and her dramaturg Blanka Zizka want you to come away with. Or, to use another porcine idiom, perhaps we ought not to eat like a pig, or at least don’t kill them, or any other bodies.
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When the lights for “Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503” come up on four dancers silhouetted by refracted light of a billowing cloud of fog, the scene rivals halftime at the Superbowl.
PlusOn a bright spring afternoon, as Paris basked in long-awaited sunlight and the city frantically moved in the heat, the Opéra Garnier opened a portal to another world—a realm of eternal forms, ethereal beauty, and blue distances: those trembling horizons where the sea dissolves into sky, and the eye reaches toward the infinite.
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