Szeged Contemporary Dance Company brings to life Carl Orff's monumental musical masterpiece as a spectacular dance-theater adaptation. Making their first trip across the Atlantic, Szeged Contemporary Dance Company / Szegedi Kortars Balett, Hungary's leading contemporary dance company, will make their U.S. debut. SCDC will bring their highly acclaimed adaptation of Carmina Burana to the U.S. The work has been performed 350 times, with more than 180,000 viewers worldwide, sold out audiences, and standing ovations across Europe, Mexico and the Middle East. Carl Orff's monumental musical masterpiece is brought to life as a spectacular dance-theater adaptation. Carmina Burana vividly captures the common fears and joys of an imaginary barbarian community as it keeps fighting for its own survival and humanity through mysterious rituals until its very last breath. Fate sometimes brings love, joy, and sometimes brings sadness or death. A girl whose life was meant to be short can feel true happiness for a moment, when love makes her forget all the bad things, and makes her believe in a life that can be different, that can be better. But Fortune is fickle and cruel.
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