NOW WE ARE EARTH / An Orchestra

In English 

NOW WE ARE EARTH/ An Orchestra is a multifaceted vision of the future. At a time, when polarisation and successive crises leave us drifting apart, the performance highlights that which unites us. This dance opera seeks a new balance with everything that lives. Human, animal, plant, fungus, bacteria and technology: NOW WE ARE EARTH/ An Orchestra is a future dream in which all elements live in peace and coherence with the planet.

Inspired by the endless and inextricable bonds of fungal threads in a fungus flake, all performers build together a polyphonic, resonant web full of colours and sounds, like an eternally repeating and branching pattern.

The boundaries between stage and audience are literally stretched and you experience a performance in which music, song, dance and set merge into an eco-futuristic “singing together for greater cohesion”. The voices of the performers and a many-member city choir led by young composer Timo Tembuyser, together with Lena Newton's set and composer Gary Shepherd's electronic, futuristic soundscapes, form a Gesamtkunstwerk that resonates like a collective, vibrant breath.

TRILOGY: RITUALS OF TRANSFORMATION (towards a new humanity)

For this third and final part of the trilogy RITUALS OF TRANSFORMATION (towards a new humanity), Nicole Beutler Projects joins forces with international partners: Berlin's Dance On Ensemble, a company for dancers over 40, with Opera Ballet Flanders, / VONK and Opera2Day, who are shaping the local city choir.

Whereas in the first part, GINKGO or: 56 million years ago there were palm trees on the North Pole, we said goodbye to the man-made world, and nature regained its breath in part two, ATMEN/ evolution is silently unfolding (O. 2024), in this final piece we search for a new balance between the earthly elements. The show can be experienced independently, but it is also part of a bigger picture that offers hope for a sustainable future for humanity.