Ludovic ondiviela biography of william hill
Her other role creations include the title role in Ludovic Ondiviela's Cassandra and roles in Requiem, Sweet Violets, As One, Medusa, Agon, Rhapsody..
Royal Ballet / Ludovic Ondiviela
Cassandra
London, Linbury Studio Theatre
30 October 2014
www.roh.org.uk
Interview: Ludovic Ondiviela & Mara Galeazzi on making Cassandra
Gallery of pictures by Dave Morgan
Ludovic Ondiviela and his team of collaborators for Cassandra, his 70-minute work about mental illness, have explained their intentions very clearly in programme notes, interviews and blogs.
The study explores the work of the English choreographer and Director of the.
The title, referring to the legendary Greek prophetess of doom, has been coined by psychiatrists as a term for psychosis – the Cassandra syndrome or complex. The affected person has visions and beliefs that others take for delusions.
Ondiviela and his composer Ana Silvera are far from unusual in their view that what is labelled ‘madness’ is not an aberration but an altered state that society has problems in accepting.
They set out to show through dance and music the experience of a modern-day Cassandra (or Giselle) and the effect her mental condition has