Young women perform Passacaglia della Vita, an anonymous medieval chant reflecting on the human presumption of possessing a fate different from others in the face of death, while recalling the inevitability shared by every existence. The performance takes place inside a greenhouse designed in 1854 by architect Alphonse Balat as a study model for the Royal Greenhouses of Belgium, commissioned by Leopold II to house exotic plants brought from the Belgian Congo.
Young women perform Passacaglia della Vita, an anonymous medieval chant reflecting on the human presumption of possessing a fate different from others in the face of death, while recalling the inevitability shared by every existence. The performance takes place inside a greenhouse designed in 1854 by architect Alphonse Balat as a study model for the Royal Greenhouses of Belgium, commissioned by Leopold II to house exotic plants brought from the Belgian Congo.
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