Akram Khan’s Desh was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike when it was first presented in 2011. Now, Akram Khan Company, and Theatre-Rites director Sue Buckmaster have adapted Khan’s much-loved production for children aged 7+ and their families. Chotto Desh, meaning ‘small homeland’, draws on Khan’s unique quality of cross-cultural storytelling, creating a compelling tale of a young man’s dreams and memories from Britain to Bangladesh. Using a magical mix of dance, text, visuals and…
A French couple just enter, like a virus in a Mexican landscape full of legends and symbols, where is told stories of ghosts, murders, kidnappings and violence…
I am dreaming of this piece as a remedy. A remedy from the rituals of Western theatre, its frontality, its strict temporality, its relationship to power. Therefore, we will be performing within a closed space, without wings or sets. Close to one another. Limited in number. All on the same level, no risers, no fourth wall. Withinthese conditions, one can choose one’s own viewing hour, as the show will take place several times per day…
Will Ada Colau be able to change the rules of the game?
Prolific New York choreographer Jonah Bokaer will perform two pieces that are emblematic of his collaboration, since 2007, with visual artist Daniel Arsham: Why Patterns and RECESS. Also on the bill: the French premiere of their latest work, Rules Of The Game, inspired by Pirandello’s stageplay Il Gioco Delle Parti and featuring an original score by Pharrell Williams – his first ever for a piece of choreography, recorded by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
