Mycelium
Christos Papadopoulos / Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon
Beneath our feet, a vast, invisible network connects trees, plants and fungi. This is the mycelium, a living web through which information, nutrients and energy flow. It is also the image that has inspired choreographer Christos Papadopoulos’s latest creation.
Fascinated by the movements of nature, he imagines a dance composed of vibrations, tremors and imperceptible metamorphoses. On stage, the twenty dancers of the Lyon Opera Ballet respond to and influence one another: one movement leads to another, like a wave passing through the group.
Set to the hypnotic music of Coti K., Mycelium gradually reveals an organism in a state of perpetual transformation. A dance of striking precision, in which the infinitely small opens up onto landscapes of unexpected grandeur.
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Choreography
Christos Papadopoulos
Cast
Dancers of the Lyon Opera Ballet
Assistant choreographer
Georgios Kotsifakis
Music
Coti K.
Lighting
Eliza Alexandropoulou
Costumes
Angelos Mentis
Ballet Masters
Marco Merenda & Raúl Serrano Núñez
Assistant ballet mistress
Amandine François and Cédric Andrieux
Production
Lyon Opera
Co-production
Lyon Dance Biennale, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris
Premiere
Premiered in September 2023 by the Lyon Opera Ballet Added to the Lyon Opera Ballet’s repertoire in 2023
Christos Papadopoulos
Born in a small village in the Peloponnese, Greece, Christos Papadopoulos studied dance and choreography at the SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam, theatre at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School (GNT Drama School) and political science at Panteion University (2000).
Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon
Under the artistic direction of Cédric Andrieux, the Lyon Opera Ballet – a pioneer in this field – continues to explore the most demanding contemporary choreographic styles.
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