The Butterfly

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The dance performance “The Butterfly” is about love between people: men and women, from different countries with very different cultural and aesthetical ideas about the meaning and expression of love. From Vietnam to Tanzania, India and Denmark, “The Butterfly” aims to inspire a better understanding of different cultures and their attitudes towards love, and hopefully, it will make living together in a global society easier for all.

A butterfly is transformed from a caterpillar into a cocoon and finally into a free-flying creature. This serves as a metaphor for the spiritual metamorphosis that happens in humans, in the meeting between man and woman as well as in the meeting between different cultures of the world. 

The Butterfly was listed on the operas in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2006.

Choreography: Birgitte Bauer-Nilsen
Composer & Musical Director: Niels Lan Doky
Co-composer: Xavier Desandre-Navarre
Costumes: Hanne Mørup
Lighting design: Rasmus Eeg
Dancers: Phuong Nguyen Hong Ha, Le Minh, Aloyce Mohammedi Makondo, Maureen Mvoni, Line Smith-Ledet and Lars Bear