The bull, the princess, and the hero

PREMIERE - June 2026, Malta International Arts Festival

CHOREOGRAPHY AND LIGHTING - Matthew William Robinson

CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANT - Mario Manara

SAND SCULPTOR - Oscar Rodriguez

DESIGN - Zoe Camilleri

DANCERS - ZfinMalta

Inspired by the myth of Theseus and the Labyrinth, The Bull, the Princess, and the Hero inhabits a space where love, sacrifice, courage, and abandonment emerge as unstable archetypes, disintegrating and reforming.

As both material and metaphor, sand creates a landscape in flux. As forms erode, new configurations arise, carrying traces of what came before. Bodies gather and disperse, constructing and dissolving images in an endless process of becoming.

Mythologies become a means of reimagining the present. Warnings, desires, and contradictions echo through time, opening space to reconsider ourselves, our choices, and our relationship to the world we encounter.

The Bull, the Princess and the Hero lingers between construction and collapse, erasure and return. Within this shifting terrain, forms continually dissolve and re-emerge, carrying the possibility of transformation.