Over two years and three Deborah Warner seasons at the tiny Ustinov Studio in Bath, the Danish choreographer Kim Brandstrup has been conjuring a mini-masterpiece based on a trilogy of Greek myths, full of intelligence and deep beauty.
Each short dance work is inspired by Ovid. But as in the earlier Minotaur and Metamorphoses, about Cupid and Psyche, in Echo and Narcissus Brandstrup doesn’t just tell the familiar story of the youth destined to fall in love with his own reflection and the nymph who loves him but is cursed only to be able to repeat the words of others. He gives it a twist, lending a possibility of hope and redemption to the story.
