The Misunderstanding of Myrrha: Unwaveringly intense, wonderfully danced
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Orpheus recounts the story of Myrrha, who is cursed by Aphrodite to fall in love with her father. After becoming pregnant she is forced to flee to Arabia, where the gods take pity on her and transform her into a myrrh tree.
This is where Junk Ensemble’s The Misunderstanding of Myrrha – staged as part of Dublin Dance Festival Winter Edition – begins, the figure standing on a pedestal with a dramatic head-dress of branches. It is also the point when Ovid’s moralising male authorship is finally silenced by the long-muted voice of Myrrha. Or rather her body, for the choreographers Jessica and Megan Kennedy, along with the artist Alice Maher, have focused on her physical response to her trauma in a soliloquy danced wonderfully by Julie Koenig.
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