A dance evening by Wagner Moreira
Advance ticket sales start: June 09, 2026
Léo Delibes’ ballet classic Coppélia or The Girl with the Enamel Eyes from 1870 tells the story of Franz, who falls in love with Coppélia. Franz does not know that she is a mechanical doll belonging to the inventor Dr. Coppélius. Like the other villagers, he believes she is a human. Only Franz’s fiancée Swanilda uncovers the truth, disguises herself as Coppélia, and thus shows Franz that true love is more important than perfect illusion.
Wagner Moreira reassembles Coppélia: between club culture, orchestral sound, and urban dance, a vibrant hybrid of contemporary dance, classical ballet, and mechanical worlds of movement emerges. At the heart of the evening are figures beyond normative attributions: an autistic inventor who communicates through rhythm rather than language, a doll capable of perfectly imitating human movements, and a couple whose love is subjected to a severe test. Human and machine, creation and projection, imperfection and love enter into a poetic field of tension.
Delibes’ music becomes a soundscape of orchestral music, DJ, guitar, and drums. Stage and body transform into a laboratory for identity, autonomy, and utopia.
The choreography moves between precise repetition and organic movement, between structure and dissolution. The result is a sensual and political dance evening about the beauty of the imperfect – and the freedom to reinvent oneself.
What does it mean to be human today – in a world increasingly shaped by mechanisms, projections, and standardized images?
This is a continuous multi-day event
