bahok
Akram Khan Company
Fri 19 Mar 2010 7.30pm
Theatre £19.50 (£17.50), £21.50 (£19.50), £23.50 (£21.50)
Composers / major pieces: Nitin Sawhney
Choreographer: Akram Khan
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Close“For nomads, home is not an address, home is what they carry with them.” John Berger, Hold Everything Dear
Akram Khan once again joins forces with long-time collaborator and multi award-winning composer Nitin Sawhney, who has created an original score for bahok.
Originally in collaboration with China’s classical ballet flagship company, the National Ballet of China, bahok brings together 8 dancers from diverse cultures, traditions and dance backgrounds: Chinese, Korean, Indian, South-African, Slovakian and Spanish. As such they resemble a present day version of the tale of Babel, speaking different languages with both their bodies and tongues.
They meet in one of this globalised world’s transit zones and try to communicate, to share ‘the things they carry with them’: their experiences, their memories of their original homes, the dreams and aspirations that made them move. They are carriers. They are bahok.
1hr 15mins
T. Post-Show Talk Fri 19 Mar
“…bahok unearths what the word ‘home’ truly means and is quite simply as close to perfect as anybody has a right to expect.” The Stage
The performance previously listed on Sat 20 March has been cancelled, due to unforseen circumstances. Ticket holders will be contacted by Box Office in due course.
Theatre
Seating up to 550, audiences are assured of an excellent view of the stage and comfortable seating in this well-designed auditorium. The theatre stages the best national and international plays and performances, as well as contemporary and international dance, music and comedians.
