The piece is a modern version of the classical ballet Coppelia (Arthur Saint-<\/i>L\u00e9on and L\u00e9o Delibes, 1870)<\/i> It is both a social satire and a depiction of the predicament of the aging artist. Present in Coppelius<\/i> is a recurrent motif in Birgit Cullberg’s canon, namely a revolt against the confinements of bourgeois life. Here this struggle is brought to life through the setting of a dollhouse containing stereotypically repressed people. The work could be seen to mirror Cullberg’s personal revolt against her upbringing in a bourgeois home in Nyk\u00f6ping, Sweden. In addition, Coppelius <\/i>also reveals Cullberg\u2019s sense of satire and burlesque, but interestingly much of the grand gestures and movements which came to represent her signature have been left aside in <\/i>this work.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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