Echo and Narcissus

June to July 2024

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Echo is doomed only to repeat the words of others. Never able to speak nor to be heard, she circles the beautiful Narcissus, who only sees and hears himself. Misapprehension prevails as they move through a strange, echoing hall of mirrors and reflection.

 

Echo and Narcissus is the concluding part of Kim Brandstrups trilogy of dance works inspired by greek myths, commissioned by Deborah Warner for Ustinov Studio at Bath’s Theatre Royal. The trilogy’s other parts are Minotaur and Cupid and Psyche.