Lili Elbe Show Contemporary Dance

Lili Elbe Show,  is an intense and evocative ballet created by Simone Repele and Sasha Riva, freely inspired by the life of Lili Elbe, the first transgender in history already protagonist of the famous novel “The Danish Girl” by David Ebershoff and the homonymous film by Tom Hooper. This is the story of the landscape painter Einar Wegener and his wife, the portrait painter Gerda Wegener, a journey of transfiguration and metamorphosis told by an ironic showman / narrator, deus ex machina who, like a sort of puppeteer, rattles off this incredible story today interpreted through the magical lens of dance, after being addressed in a book and in a film. In the show, the two choreographers explore the demon of human dissatisfaction, the need for acceptance that each of us demands from ourselves and that sense of inadequacy that often takes over. Lili Elbe Show is danced to the notes of Johann Sebastian Bach and to Danish folk music by Dan Haugaard and Folkstow. It also includes some forays of minimal sounds created specifically for the show.