Scapino Ballet Rotterdam | Cathedral

Scapino Ballet Rotterdam is reviving the successful production Cathedral, an evening with Arvo Pärt by Spanish dance and theater maker Marcos Morau. Combining artistic disciplines, extraordinary design and inventive movement language, Morau is one of the leading dance artists in the European theater world.

Cathedral depicts a world where life is dominated by digital technologies and where we are increasingly losing each other. Using the mystical music of Arvo Pärt as a heartbeat, Morau and the dancers explore what makes us human and our relationship to nature. Morau and his team of Spanish artists design a retro-futuristic stage setting with life-size video projections. In this alienating world, the music of Arvo Pärt offers an oasis of calm. Important elements in the design are theatrical and contemporary fashion-inspired costumes. The encounter with a metre-high meteor on stage marks the enigmatic beginning of this extraordinary dance performance.