Narcissus (2021)
Narcissus is an original, evening-length ballet set to Nikolai Tcherepnin's score Narcisse et Echo composed in 1911 for the Ballets Russes. The work, featuring costume and set designs by Andrew Jordan as well as lighting by Joe Levasseur, incorporates themes of the eponymous Greek myth on which it is based to re-envision the original ballet through a contemporary queer lens. The work was commissioned by New York Live Arts where it premièred from October 27th-30th, 2021, and the work's designers were nominated for a 2022 New York Dance & Performance “Bessie" Award in the category of Outstanding Visual Design.
*This video is an excerpt from the complete work.
*This video is an excerpt from the complete work.
*This video is an excerpt from the complete work.
Rotoscoped animation by Andrew Jordan.
Rotoscoped animation by Andrew Jordan.
Narcissus & Reflection
Boeotians
Oreads
Echo
Bacchantes
Original Cast:
NARCISSUS
(a Boeotian youth)
Cemiyon Barber & Taylor Stanley
ECHO
(a mountain nymph)
Mac Twining (for Russell Janzen)
OREADS
(a tribe of mountain nymphs)
Jack Blackmon, Casey Hess, Alexander Olivieri, Michael Parmelee, & Logan Pedon
BACCHANTES
(Boeotian seers)
Christiana Axelsen, Breckyn Dávila Drescher, & Caitlin Scranton
BOEOTIANS
(tribespeople of Boeotia)
Ching-I Chang, Janet Charleston, Alan Good, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Justin Lynch, & Jake Montanaro