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EDEN | EDEN
EDEN | EDEN
2005
Company
Stuttgart Ballet
Duration
30 minutes
Concept, Direction, Choreography and Set Design
Wayne McGregor
Music
Steve Reich 'Dolly' (from 'Three Tales')
Costume Design
Ursula Bombshell
Lighting Design
Charles Balfour
Video Design
Ravi Deepres
Visual Effects
Luke Unsworth
Originally danced by
Alicia Amatriain, Elisa Carrillo Cabrera, Laura O'Malley, Diana Martinez Morales, Evan McKie, Marijn Rademaker, Stefan Stewart, Friedmann Vogel and Alexander Zaitsev
Premiere date and venue
7 April 2005, Staatstheater, Stuttgart, Germany
Dates
EDEN | EDEN addresses the role of technology in the ethics surrounding the human body.
This work is set to Steve Reich's spoken libretto/musical score for the third act of his filmic opera, Three Tales, devised by Reich and his filmmaker wife, Beryl Korot. Dolly (named for the cloned sheep) pits scientists against one another in a thoughtful debate about the ethics of cloning.
"What does it mean when you clone yourself? If I cloned myself, what are the differences in us? What is it that makes you a human being? Is it biology? Is it skin and bones, muscle? Or is it something much more spiritual, something that makes you different even if someone has the same gene pool as you?" - Wayne McGregor
Since Stuttgart Ballet's premiere, EDEN | EDEN has also been performed by San Francisco Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Vienna State Ballet, Czech National Ballet and Ballett Dortmund.
Images: © Stuttgart Ballet (of original production).