Later that evening Ariadne - the daughter of King Minos - arrives in secret with a plan to help Theseus: she gives him a sword to kill the Minotaur and a ball of thread the find his way out of the ...

Brandstrup has always been a choreographer unafraid of beauty, and there are long lovely minutes in a nod to Romeo’s leave-taking of Juliet, and then in Ariadne’s lament when Theseus has abandoned her ...