Pina Bausch: Overture to Orpheus & Eurydice (composer Christoph Willibald Gluck)

Look, there’s not much I CAN’T find a flaw in but this might be one of those rare times when I’m struck dumb. What Pina Bausch did with Gluck’s Overture to “Orpheus Eurydice“ is possibly the best thing I’ve ever seen choreographed to opera and maybe one of the best morbid performance pieces I like morbid. And opera. Especially chorale pieces and those are always morbid, I mean choruses sing on that fine line between good and evil. Even Handel’s “Messiah“ could be the theme from heaven OR hell, it’s a coin toss. Have you ever listened to Mozarts Requiem? IS a funeral mass, so it is morbid in a sense yet all they are talking about is GOD and still one feels they are being sent straight to hell. “Consigned to flames of wall“.... Bausch’s lines are very Martha Graham in this piece and perhaps she meant it that way. They BEGIN Graham but end Bausch - askew and random, almost like afterthoughts. I found Pina Bausch to be unus