Bahok
Akram Khan Company and the National Ballet of China.
"For nomads, home is not an address, home is what they carry with them."
John Berger, Hold everything dear
After his more intimate duets with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Zero Degrees) and Sylvie Guillem (Sacred Monsters), Akram Khan again joins forces with Mercury Award winning composer and producer Nitin Sawhney, to present a new company of nine dancers.
A collaboration with China's classical ballet flagship National Ballet of China, with dancers coming from different cultures, traditions and dance backgrounds: Chinese, Korean, Indian, South-African and Spanish, resembling a present day version of the tale of Babel.
Together they create a utopian project, speaking both with their bodies and tongues. They meet in 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.
Friday 16 & Saturday 17 May 2008
7.30pm
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Tickets: £8, £14, £18, £22 (under 18's £2 off)
- Fri 16 May - Sat 17 May
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