{"id":32234,"date":"2019-04-05T03:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T10:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=32234"},"modified":"2019-04-02T22:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T05:47:58","slug":"a-further-peek-at-cohens-orfeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/04\/05\/a-further-peek-at-cohens-orfeo\/","title":{"rendered":"A further peek at Cohen\u2019s Orfeo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dancers Jeremy O\u2019Neill, Ted Littlemore and Kate Franklin. (photo by Idan Cohen)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Last May, Idan Cohen introduced local audiences to his reimagining of Christoph Willibald Gluck\u2019s opera Orfeo ed Euridice<\/em>. He will share more of this ongoing work in EDAM dance company\u2019s Spring Choreographic Series, in which he is a guest artist, along with Jennifer McLeish-Lewis.<\/p>\n

In six performances between April 10 and 20 at EDAM\u2019s home at the Western Front on East 8th Avenue, Cohen and McLeish-Lewis will present new work, while EDAM, under artist director Peter Bingham, will present a directed improvisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was introduced to Peter and the EDAM family through Linda Blankstein, who I met through the DanceLab residency I took part in last May at the Dance Centre,\u201d Cohen wrote the Independent<\/em> in an email from London\u2019s Heathrow Airport, as he waited for his flight back to Vancouver. \u201cAmong the many other roles through which Linda supports Vancouver\u2019s arts community, she is on the board of EDAM, and was kind enough to introduce my work to Peter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe space and people at EDAM were very welcoming,\u201d said Cohen, who is artistic director of Ne. Sans Opera and Dance. \u201cPeter invited me and the performers to take his daily morning classes, and offered this wonderful opportunity for me, Ne. Sans and the artists collaborating on this piece \u2013 musicians\/dancers Jeremy O\u2019Neill, Ted Littlemore and Kate Franklin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The part of Orfeo ed Euridice<\/em> that Cohen will showcase next week is called Trionfi Amore<\/em> (in English, The Triumph of Love<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Greek mythology, Orpheus [Orfeo, in Greek] was a musician and a poet who had the ability to enchant all living creatures through his musical gift, and could even stop the waves of the ocean from rolling,\u201d explained Cohen. \u201cIn an attempt to bring his newly married wife Eurydice back to life from the dead, Orfeo persuades the guardians of the underworld to allow him entry to their kingdom.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrionfi Amore<\/em> deconstructs the key elements and motives of the story and puts it into a contemporary context. We integrate dance with a bit of live music in a piece that speaks of love, and of the power of music and art to move, entertain and touch us. We also look at the power of art to manipulate, exploring the ways in which different aspects of love can be transformed into the act of performance. I am focusing on the \u2018love story\u2019 part of the mythological tale, recreating its themes through the intimacy and fragility of the body.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more about Orfeo ed Euridice<\/em>, see jewishindependent.ca\/the-power-of-music-and-love<\/a>. For tickets to one of the EDAM Spring Choreographic Series performances, visit edamdance.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dancers Jeremy O\u2019Neill, Ted Littlemore and Kate Franklin. (photo by Idan Cohen) Last May, Idan Cohen introduced local audiences to his reimagining of Christoph Willibald Gluck\u2019s opera Orfeo ed Euridice. He will share more of this ongoing work in EDAM dance company\u2019s Spring Choreographic Series, in which he is a guest artist, along with Jennifer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785],"tags":[6769,3119,8856,8112,8855,6540,8111],"class_list":["post-32234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performing-arts","tag-choreography","tag-dance","tag-edam","tag-idan-cohen","tag-ne-sans","tag-opera","tag-orfeo-ed-euridice"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}