L'amour Au Loin - Purcell, Musique, Danse

At Radiant-Bellevue: L'Amour au Loin – Purcell: musique & danse

At Radiant-Bellevue, we are delighted to welcome L'Amour au Loin – Purcell: musique & danse, a poetic encounter between baroque music and contemporary movement crafted for an audience that relishes both timeless melody and bold stagecraft. In our auditorium, the intimacy of Purcell’s sound world meets the breadth of a modern choreographic language, allowing every gesture and phrase to breathe in luminous detail. Expect the resonance of strings and voices to mingle with the pulse of dance as the stage opens onto a landscape of “distant love,” explored through light, shadow, and the eloquence of bodies in motion. From every seat in our hall, the interplay of live performance and spatial design has been shaped to heighten Purcell’s expressive arcs—suspensions and releases, ornaments and silences—while drawing viewers into a narrative space where longing and presence coexist. Our technical teams have worked closely with the artists to calibrate acoustics, sightlines, and lighting palettes so that the experience remains both clear and immersive, whether you come for the vocal finesse, the instrumental color, or the kinetic storytelling that binds them.

Artistic momentum and creative vision on our stage

The creators of L'Amour au Loin – Purcell: musique & danse arrive at Radiant-Bellevue amid a season that foregrounds musical dramaturgy: the intelligent weaving of early music with contemporary dramaturgical forms. Their current work places Purcell’s emotional precision at the heart of a living theater, where arias and grounds become catalysts for choreographic invention. Listeners may recognize the intimate arc of Music for a While, the gravity of When I am laid in earth, or the delicate energies that ripple from The Fairy-Queen and the Rondeau from Abdelazer, refracted through movement that treats rhythm as architecture and breath as phrasing. In recent months, the ensemble has deepened its research around gesture and ornamentation, treating dance as a partner to counterpoint rather than decoration. That approach finds a natural home at Radiant-Bellevue, where we prize clarity of sound and a stage capable of both precision and warmth. Our teams have collaborated with the artists in work sessions to let Purcell’s lines unfold with chamber-like transparency, and to allow the choreography to articulate states of nearness and distance—the essential voltage of “amour au loin”—without sacrificing musical detail or theatrical immediacy.

As hosts, we have prepared a setting that encourages attentive listening and open-eyed discovery. The evening invites audiences to hear Purcell anew, not as a museum artifact but as a living reservoir of rhythm, breath, and human feeling. The dancers carve pathways through ground basses; the singers and players answer with lines that hover, twist, and resolve in sensuous harmony. Our stagecraft supports this dialogue with thoughtfully sculpted light and a spatial design that keeps performers and public in close conversation, even within a full house. Radiant-Bellevue’s staff will be on hand to guide your arrival, ensure comfort in the hall, and accompany you throughout the night. Whether you are a seasoned admirer of baroque music or discovering it for the first time, L'Amour au Loin – Purcell: musique & danse offers an evening of resonance tailored to our venue’s strengths: intimacy without smallness, clarity without austerity, and a shared sense that music and dance can turn distance into a palpable, shared presence.