The Show Crystal Pite's poignant work grapples with themes of safe passage, displacement, community and mortality.
Background Masses of dancers move as a mesmerising whole.
Bodies, fluid and yearning, are bathed in shafts of light.
A single voice emerges, a lament that distils the magnitude of human suffering.
A journey begins.
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Crystal Pite, in her distinctive choreographic style, grapples with themes of safe passage, displacement, community and mortality.
Set to Gorecki's affecting Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, this award-winning work is a reminder of the power of human connection in our turbulent times.
Powerful art In Light of Passage, Crystal Pite reckons with the existential tensions of the human condition, masterfully demonstrating how art can move the soul and provoke thought.
In the choreographer's own words, 'there is a profound optimism in putting something like this out into the world and connecting to each other through it.
When people collaborate to create a work of art and an audience gathers to witness it, there is something very hopeful and powerful about the experience.
I want to create conditions in the theatre where we can gather around what we cannot know and grapple with it, together.
'A record in classical music publishing history Light of Passage is set to Polish composer Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No.
3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs).
Created in 1976 for a large orchestra and solo soprano, it would become a defining composition of the 20th century.
The symphony had its big break in 1989 with a performance by the London Sinfonietta, conductor David Zinman and soprano Dawn Upshaw, which was recorded by Elektra Nonesuch and picked up by Classic FM.
Played on rotation on airwaves around the country, it reached no.
6 on the UK album charts of 1993.
The recording would become the most popular contemporary classical CD ever, selling over a million copies.
Assisted Performances: Audio-described performance with a pre-performance Touch Tour - Saturday 1 March, 7.
30pm
Theatre details
Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House Bow Street London WC2E 9DD
Directions: ( 7 minutes from Leicester square Tube Station) Head east on Cranbourn Street and continue for 390 feet ( towards Charing Cross Road). Cranbourn Street turns slightly right and becomes Garrick Street continue along this road for 207 feet. Turn left onto Floral Street and continue for 0.2 miles. Turn right onto Bow Street and continue for 171 feet, the theatre will be on your right hand side.
Tube: Covent Garden station is 1 minute walk (135 metres)
Covent Garden station is 1 minute walk (135 metres)
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