Experience DIDO's heartbreak in a solo performance blending dance, theatre, and music. Istanbul based Korhan Basaran reimagines this timeless tale with immersive visuals and a moving original score. Dive into the depths of desire and betrayal in just 60 minutes.Dido is a solo multi-disciplinary performance by Istanbul-based choreographer/performer Korhan Basaran that reflects the myth of Dido and Aeneas using elements of dance, theatre, new music and video projection to explore themes of human desire, frustration and heartbreak.Basaran takes the audience on a journey in collaboration with Tolga Yayalars original composition and Ataman Giriskens projection design deep into Didos mind as she falls in love and is ultimately destroyed by her own desire and loyalty. Language is an extension of movement as Basarans body softens, explodes, ducks, hides, and accuses, showing us how Didos mind grasps at the realization of her betrayal. Girisken uses video projection and Yayalar uses sound to redefine the stage space with simple, bold clean imagery with a constantly traveling sound that shifts our perception of time and space as we descend deeper and deeper into this dream poem of theatrical experience.Didos text has been re-written by Basaran with inspiration from Virgils Aeneid and Christopher Marlowes Dido; Queen of Carthage.

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