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Bahok
Co-produced by the
Liverpool Culture Company for Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008
with Merseyside Dance Initiative and Akram Khan Company.
Bahok is the long
awaited new group choreography by Akram Khan. After the 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 Sawney, and has brought together a new company of nine
dancers.
A collaboration with
China’s classical ballet flagship company, The National Ballet of
China, the dancers come from different cultures, traditions and dance
backgrounds: Chinese, Korean, Indian, South-African and Spanish. As such
they resemble a present day version of the tale of Babel. Being a community
that wants to create together a utopian project but speaking both with
their bodies and tongues different languages. 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.
Co-producers and
sponsors: British Council, Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, Birmingham Dance
Exchange, Theatre de La Ville, Paris , Tanzhaus NRW Dusseldorf, National
Arts Center, Ottawa, Liverpool Culture Company with Merseyside Dance Initiative.
Bahok is part of LEAP - Merseyside Dance Initiative's annual contemporary
dance festival.
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