Choreography

Inspired by Estonian composer Arvo Part and his mystical and universal themes, Metamorphosis narrates the stages of life from before it begins to well after death. From depicting pure kinetic energy, to geometries with biological references, to the vegetal and anthropomorphic, the short variations begin with childhood (chasing butterflies and friendship), and adolescence, with the soloist bouncing in oblique angles against the ensemble’s Cartesian patterns of “conformity and rules”.  The first solo embodies loneliness the sorrows of maturity, and the second is of raw grief of loss.  The ensemble returns in a “funeral cortege”, where individual identity is once again absorbed in the collective.  In the last two variations, dematerialization and disintegration, and finally the loss of all memory.