It's all about Ovid's Artemis and Acteaon. But you don't really need to know that. While the legendary touch adds undoubted weight, this classic coupling, exquisitely abstracted into hot choreography, has been created for our time. Brought to Edinburgh by Zero Visibility Corp, it is a dance performance as polished as you are likely to see on the Fringe this year.
The pair set out on their hour-long pas de deux with the kind of casual friendliness and snaky body-popping that gets you relaxed and in the mood. Line Tørmoen (Artemis, the goddess) and Dimitri Jourde (Acteaon, the hunter) then deftly wrap the story of love and revenge round their bodies until it becomes skin. These dancers are magic together. Tørmoen's eyes seem to have a role of their own, while Jourde has a strength which lifts his partner for acres of choreography as if she were air. Performing with Olympian athletic skill, both dancers inhabit the psychological depths of the lovers with consummate ease. Simple, sophisticated lighting and minimal design keeps the focus on the them, while the choreographic alchemist behind all this is Norwegian Ina Christel Johannessen. Her translation of the chat-up, the foreplay, the lust, the snog and the final tragedy is clear cut from startlingly sensual 21st-century motion.
This is no rehearsal. It's the real deal.
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