EXODUS - A NOW-ID & FIGURA ENSEMBLE CO-PRODUCTION (2016)
EXODUS was co-produced by NOW-ID and the Figura Ensemble of Copenhagen, Denmark. This production was performed over several nights in Salt Lake City before touring overseas to Denmark, where it was performed at the Copenhagen Opera Festival August 2 and 3rd, and later at Fyn's Opera in Odense, Denmark August 5, 6th, 2016.
EXODUS focused on the human necessity to move, whether because of persecution, poverty, religious beliefs or opportunity/adventure. EXODUS is a 60-minute long multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural work, involving 15 local and international artists, original choreography, opera, music, design, and contemporary dance. The work explored the implications of "exodus" - a mass movement, a coming together both in spite of and because of diversity—regarding what we may learn in collective experience, in spectacle, about collective identity. The arc of the performance was informed by the trajectory of the experience of EXODUS:
1. Crisis/Hope
2. Home
3. Separation
4. Dream
5. Wave
6. Borders
7. Hope/Crisis
EXODUS, like its collaborators, took both an international and domestic perspective. EXODUS explored human migration and movement, a topical subject nationally in political debate, and globally - most pressingly observed in the exodus from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe.
Choreography: Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Stage design: Nathan Webster, Theatre Director: Rolf Heim, Composer: Peter Bruun, Writer: Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Opera Singers: Nana Bugge Rasmussen, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Musicians: Jesper Egelund, Anna Klett, Frans Hansen, Dancers: Tara McArthur, Katherine Lawrence, Adrian Fry, Lighting: Cole Adams, Sound Adam Day.