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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Sarah Crompton

Phaedra and Minotaur review – Kim Brandstrup’s ravishing new work puts Ariadne centre stage

Laurel Dalley Smith and Jonathan Goddard as Ariadne and Theseus in Minotaur.
‘Sharp as an arrow’: Laurel Dalley Smith as Ariadne with Jonathan Goddard as Theseus in Minotaur. Photograph: Foteini Christofilopoulou

As a young man Kim Brandstrup studied film, and more than any other choreographer I can think of he tells stories through images, creating frames in a moving frieze.

His new work, Minotaur, commissioned by Deborah Warner as part of her enterprising new regime at the tiny Ustinov space, has the quality of a dream, each successive scene offering pictures of haunting encounters that feel at once surreal and real.

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