Ensemble Nylandia: Orpheus in UNDERWORLD
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2 performances
18.9-19.9.2026
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Duration
1 H 30 min (no intermission)
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Venue
Pannu Hall
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Tickets
30-20 €
Show times
fri 18.9. at 19.00
sat 19.9. at 19.00
Audiences are encouraged to arrive to the performance early to experience UNDERWORLD in virtual reality before the story begins. The doors to the Dance House open one hour before the show.
Introduction
Orpheus in UNDERWORLD is a contemporary version of the Orphean myth that fuses opera, dance, extended reality, motion capture and interactive technologies. This world premiere is co-produced by two Canadian companies: re:Naissance Immersive and the contemporary dance company, Belle Spirale.
Through an immersive exploration of our digital and carbon existences, the performance dissolves the binaries we are bound to from birth until death, and strums the threads between heaven and hell, male and female, maker and muse, performer and audience.
The story follows O, a trans person whose sense of gender and identity is expansive — yet who has lived a fractured life. Haunted by past experiences and personhoods that have been suppressed, repressed, or condemned, Orpheus journeys to UNDERWORLD, an online virtual world, where they find the opportunity to express themself through avatars in extended reality. As O navigates the fluid landscapes of identity and technology, Orpheus in UNDERWORLD challenges us to question: how do we navigate the vastness of our identities in spaces that resist our multiplicity?
Audiences are encouraged to arrive to the performance early to experience UNDERWORLD in virtual reality before the story begins.
Orpheus in UNDERWORLD is part of the opera series Censored, of which the second part La Doriclea: Inter-Acts is performed at the Music Centre's Black Box on 11.9. and 12.9.
Organizer: Ensemble Nylandia / Censored Opera Festival
Credits
Co-Production: re:Naissance Immersive, Belle Spirale Dance (Kanada)
Co-Creators: Luke Hathaway, Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野, Debi Wong, Benton Roark, Alexis Fletcher, Neel Nair, Brian Topp
Funders: Canada Council For The Arts, BC Arts Council
Ticket information
Early Bird standard ticket 25 € available until 1.7.
Standard Ticket | 30 €
Discount Ticket | 20 € Pensioners, professionals, students, unemployed, conscripts and civil servants.
Please be prepared to present a certificate entitling you to a discount.
The auditorium is unnumbered.
In ticket enquiries, please contact: info@tanssintalo.fi
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