MORPHEUS
Sandman & The Seven Sins (2019)

Photography - Justin P Brown

Inspired by the SANDMAN comic by NEIL GAIMAN, this solo, in both Butoh dance and Mitoh theater, explores the myth of Morpheus, the Greek deity of dreams. The oneiric world that surrounds this mysterious character unfolds before our eyes through its multiple forms, all of them illusions of the sleeping mind, and, in turn, as psychoanalysis already discovered, living and authentic images of our psyche. It is in this collective, archaic and mythical psyche that the diverse instincts of our species are found.

In this Solo by Orland Verdú, in which he explores these changes through the live music of Marina Tomàs, the dreamlike atmosphere and the expressive art of physical poetry, inexorably penetrate our unconscious to awaken from our Apollonian lethargy. 

SYNOPSIS
Repressed by society and religion, our impulses lie in wait, quietly in the Shadow, to come alive in dreams and nightmares. It is in the pale light of the dream and its thousand oniros in the shapes of birds, as Goya illustrated them, that the Seven Sins rise: the seven wounds of the soul that will make up our daytime personality. In his journey between wakefulness, sleep and altered states of consciousness, Morpheus invites the viewer to reflect on the mystery that inhabits us. If life is a dream, what is its awakening? What is then, reality?

To dream. To sleep. To die... Or finally to wake up in a strange world, drunken with otherness...

ARTISTS
Original Idea: ORLAND VERDÚ, Direction/Dance: ORLAND VERDÚ, Live Music: MARINA TOMÀS, Lights: JUSTIN P BROWN, Photography JUSTIN P BROWN, Video LUCIA ANDREACCHIO, Production Assistant ANNI ANDREA FACCHINI.

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