Woke up Blind

“Woke up Blind was the first piece I stumbled into when I joined NDT 1 – fresh out of the classical ballet world, ten years younger and at least ten fears heavier. Now I return to it from another angle, and it’s like dancing with an old friend who insists on keeping secrets, revealing only what I’m ready to hear.

This work is a storm and a whisper at once. Its challenges are merciless, its essence intoxicating. you can’t simply perform it – you have to surrender, wrestle, reinvent yourself every single time the lights start fading in. And strangely, that reinvention is the gift: freedom disguised as difficulty, a reminder that our artform lives in change. It has to!

What I cherish most is how individuality is not only allowed in Marco’s works, but it’s demanded. He continues to create a space where we can be utterly ourselves while still breathing together as one. We follow a direction, not a dictation. I look around and fall in love with my colleagues over and over again – they are otherworldly, and my admiration for them is permanent, etched into me. I hope this night carries you, for this moment in time, away from the here and now.

and so for ourselves we have been
tonight for you
we dance
reckless and tender
the way young lovers do: goodnight.”