Performance storytelling by: Steph Brittain.

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A King breaks a promise.
A Queen takes passion in hand.
A Prince becomes a feared prisoner.
And Ariadne dances.

Storyteller Steph Brittain unravels a web of love, loss, betrayal, and bees - tracing the footsteps of Ariadne to a place before the maze and before the thread.

From a forest dance floor to the labyrinth's dark passages, and beneath the starry skies of Naxos, A Dance With The Minotaur's Sister weaves an intricate tapestry of strength, courage, and desire - a story as old as myth, told with the living pulse of now.

Tipping ancient Greek mythology into a new perspective, this is a story of a bull, a boy, his sister, a labyrinth and what happens when the hero leaves.

Ariadne is waiting - pulsing with joy and fire. Join the dance.

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CONTENT WARNING: this performance contains references to sex, threat and violence, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor

STEPH BRITTAIN

Steph Brittain's love for storytelling developed whilst studying Kathak dance in Paris and Delhi, and it continued to grow during her MA in Drama And Movement Therapy at The Royal Central School Of Speech & Drama, London. She trained in performance at Acting International in Paris and Drama Centre London, and in storytelling with Jo Blake, Ben Haggarty, Nick Hennessey and Nell Phoenix. She has performed at Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Arcola Theatre London, the BBC, and in venues across the Isle Of Wight. She is a member of storytelling and music ensemble Pandvani108, and is a performer with the Crick Crack Club's Stories In The Dark and Beholders Share projects.

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