About this event
A dance evening by Wagner Moreira
Léo Delibes’ 1870 ballet classic Coppélia or The Girl with the Enamel Eyes tells the story of Franz, who falls in love with Coppélia. Franz does not know that she is a mechanical doll created by the inventor Dr. Coppélius. Like the other villagers, he mistakes her for a real human. It is only when Franz’s fiancée Swanilda uncovers the truth, disguising herself as Coppélia, that she shows Franz that true love is more important than a perfect illusion.
Wagner Moreira reassembles Coppélia: between club culture, orchestral sound, and urban dance, a vibrant hybrid of contemporary dance, classical ballet, and mechanical worlds of movement emerges. At the heart of the evening are figures beyond normative labels: an autistic inventor who communicates through rhythm rather than speech, a doll capable of perfectly mimicking human movements, and a couple whose love is put to a severe test. Human and machine, creation and projection, imperfection and love enter into a poetic field of tension. Léo Delibes’ music is transformed into a soundscape of orchestral music, DJ, guitar, and percussion. The stage and the body turn into a laboratory for identity, autonomy, and utopia.
The choreography moves between precise repetition and organic movement, between structure and dissolution. The result is a sensual, political dance evening about the beauty of the imperfect – and the freedom to reinvent oneself.
What does it mean to be human today – in a world increasingly shaped by mechanisms, projections, and standardized images?
Dates & Venues
This event takes place on 7 dates
