Eve
World Premiere 2015 / Royal New Zealand Ballet
Choreography Loughlan Prior
Company Royal New Zealand Ballet
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Music Zbigniew Preisner
Francesco Paulo Tosti
Spoken word: Cameron Barclay
Poetry: Jo Thorpe
Costume Design Loughlan Prior
Lighting Design Kathryn Osborne
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Images Amber Griffin, Nina Gastreich
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Restaged Tempo Festival, Auckland 2016
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Awards Harry Haythorne
Choreographic Award
Light provides the climate of the dance. For evanescence, light her from behind. - Jo Thorpe
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Inspired by the story of original sin, EVE looks at the power of temptation and the struggle for redemption in a series of short dramatic episodes. The sound world of the work is a mixture of genres - compositions by Francesco Tosti and Zbigniew Preisner are fused with spoken words by New Zealand poet Jo Thorpe, performed by acclaimed Tenor, Cameron Barclay (The Ten Tenors, New Zealand Opera).
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'An aura of elegance and refinement.'
- New Zealand Herald
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'Extreme geometries of the limbs and innovative partnering'
- New Zealand Herald