Carmen

Carmen is a rebellious bird, a wanderer, a hustler, a factory worker, a polylingual, shape-shifting lover, stateless and ungovernable. In collaboration with writers Sophia Al-Maria and Fred Moten, Moved by the Motion digs through the many layers of Carmen’s legacy while taking the source material further. Bizet’s original score weaves together with musical interventions by composers Andrew Yee and Asma Maroof to create this hybrid opera-theatre piece. Working seamlessly with language, movement, image and song, Moved by the Motion forms a genre-bending adaptation that reinterprets the themes that Carmen embodies: love, loss and liberation. Based on the opera by George Bizet & inspired by the novella by Prosper Mérimée.