This ground-breaking new dance piece is a thrilling new interpretation of Virgil’s epic poem, The Aeneid, performed to an exhilarating electronic score. It premiered this June at the Marina Market warehouse as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.

​After a career-defining moment as a young dancer performing in Berlioz’s opera Les Troyens at La Scala, twenty-five years later Connaughton returns as a chore to the work and to the earth-shattering themes of war, primacy of fate, the suffering of wanderers, and the glory of State in collaboration with sound designer/electronica composer Nigel Truswell, lighting designer Begoña Garcia, costume designer Emily Ní Bhroin, video designer Luca Trufarelli and a cast of exceptional Irish and international dancers.

Created, directed and choreographed by Philip Connaughton
Lighting Design Begoña Garcia
Costume Design Emily Ní Bhroin
Sound Design/Composer Oberman Knocks
Video Design Luca Trufarelli
Performers Sheik Bah, Joanna Banks, Vitor Bassi, Alexandra Karcakova, Anna Kazouba, Sarah Ryan, Dmitry Vinokurov
Photography and trailer Olga Kuzmenko