LILI ELBE SHOW

CREDITS:

Choreography: Sasha Riva & Simone Repele

Creation for 5 dancers

Light design: Alessandro Caso

Costumes: Francesco Murano

Music: J.S.Bach – D.Haugaard – V.Wesenlund – Folkstow – Adamson & Vaggvisor – D.Lang – Everando – I.Nielsen – Antony & The Johnsons – M.Richter

Production: Riva & Repele

Co-production with Daniele Cipriani Entertainment e Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano

Length: ca. 75 min

DESCRIPTION:

Lili Elbe Show is a true story and a profoundly personal journey that resonates universally. It explores the human struggles of self-acceptance, identity, and the quiet feeling of never being enough.

The piece tells the story of landscape painter Einar Wegener and his wife, portraitist Gerda Wegener, reimagined through the poetic language of dance. Two realms unfold on stage: the real-life transformation of Einar into Lili, and a dreamlike world of spirits and shadows, where Lili’s presence is already felt.

A mirrorless frame becomes a threshold into this other dimension, where dreams, memories, and inner truths converge. Gerda shines at the center—compassionate, unwavering, and the first to reveal Einar’s hidden truth through her paintings. A nameless masculine figure embodies desire, expectation, and the tension of identity, while a whimsical narrator—a mix of jester and oracle—guides the unfolding destiny.

Lili Elbe Show is a poetic meditation on transformation, courage, and the search for authenticity.