Beyond the aesthetic fascination it produces, this diptych gathering the great master of postmodern dance and a rising star of European choreography highlights the changes that recently occurred in our relationship with living things. In Merce Cunningham and John Cage’s Beach Birds, nature is a moving landscape of colour and organic, tinkling sounds from which ornate hybrid creatures are born.
In Mycelium, nature according to Christos Papadopoulos is a world buzzing with interconnected and minute modifications, and an endless source of wonder pulsating to the rhythm of Coti K.’s electronic music. Beyond this somewhat anthropological distinction, both pieces lead to similar contemplative states, making the audience deeply focused and fully relaxed at the same time.