Eurydice Ascending: Thoughts

Ruminations on the meaning behind “Eurydice Ascending”
by Michele Kadison

We are in a very different paradigm now where all the old forms are falling away. I'm feeling that we are truly entering into a time where we can feel how quantum physics is taking a stronger place in our consciousness - where we see, as I am seeing and feeling more and more - how much is illusion, how much is the artifice we erect to keep ourselves safe in what we think is true, what we think we know. And this is all changing as we begin to understand how much power we have to change shape and time.

When Eurydice is ready to die in our ballet, “Eurydice Ascending,” she is actually entering the world of quantum reality. She has changed shape and now lives in elastic time. The gods, who are really just her expanded self, have taken her beyond the old physical reality. Orpheo, of course, is still locked into the old way. He has his music... but he doesn't know anything else. His idea about love is the old idea - possession and fixed things. Before Eurydice was taken by the “gods”, she never knew what love was. She knew fear, she knew power, she knew vanity, she knew anti-love. As the Empress/ Milonguera in the context of Act I, Eurydice had a role. She fit herself into society in a certain way that could hold the truths she knew: her fear and her containment of that fear in her hatred of men, in having to prove things, in behaving on a personality level without relationship to soul.

As Eurydice follows her expanded self she learns about real love- that it is infinite and undefinable and limitless. When she loves Orpheo she begins to find, through the help of the “gods” or her great inner wisdom, that she is in truth beginning to love everything. So losing him is not losing him per se – he is not yet expanded enough to fit into the new universe, where she ultimately finds limitless love.

When Eurydice dies we see the universe open. We see nature and air and light and breath.

”Eurydice Ascending” is a testimonial to the work we do within in order to touch and open our infinite, expanded selves. It is deeper than a personal transformation. It is a unification with the infinite.