Eve
World Premiere 2015 / Royal New Zealand Ballet
Choreography Loughlan Prior
Company Royal New Zealand Ballet
Music Zbigniew Preisner
Francesco Paulo Tosti
Spoken word: Cameron Barclay
Poetry: Jo Thorpe
Costume Design Loughlan Prior
Lighting Design Kathryn Osborne
Images Amber Griffin, Nina Gastreich
Restaged Tempo Festival, Auckland 2016
Awards Harry Haythorne
Choreographic Award
Light provides the climate of the dance. For evanescence, light her from behind. - Jo Thorpe
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).
'An aura of elegance and refinement.'
- New Zealand Herald
'Extreme geometries of the limbs and innovative partnering'
- New Zealand Herald