Why did Orpheus, as he was leaving Hades, turn back to look at Eurydice and lose her forever? Was it impatience, passion, or an unconscious inner compulsion that drove him to follow her into the world of the dead, only to lose her through his own action?

What moved Chopin when, close to death, he decided to give his final concert in honor of the veterans of the November Uprising — was it pride, longing, patriotism? And why had he previously refused a Russian passport, which would have allowed him to return to his loved ones and to his beloved Poland?

Fryderyk Chopin became a myth during his lifetime — both in Poland and around the world. So perhaps — as Maurice Blanchot wrote of Orpheus — Chopin “obeyed the deepest demands of the work, as though, through that inspiration, tearing a dark shadow from the underworld — he unknowingly brought it into the light”?

Did he have a choice? Could he have escaped the script of the myth of the divine artist? Or was he, like Orpheus, able to fully surrender only to the song?

With only fragments of Chopin’s life to rely on — incomplete correspondence and no definitive records of his conversations — the creators have chosen image and the body as the main media of this performance. The story is told through choreography…