Performance

• In the Flesh
  Billy Cowie
• How do you like my landscape
  Manah Depauw and Bernard Van Eeghem
• Critical Encounters 1: Encountering Children and Animals
  
• bahok
  Akram Khan Company and the National Ballet of China
• Lipstick and Lollypops
  Deafinitely Theatre
• The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown
  Bock and Vincenzi
• From Where I am Standing
  Junction 25
• Old people, children and animals
  Quarantine
• Peeping at Bosch
  Ian Smith and Mischief La-Bas
• The Porcelain Project
  Needcompany
• The Lobster Shop
  Needcompany

bahok

Akram Khan Company and the National Ballet of China
www.akramkhancompany.net

bahok is the long awaited new choreography by Akram Khan.

Akram Khan joins forces with acclaimed writer Hanif Kureishi and multi award-winning composer Nitin Sawhney, bringing together a new company of nine dancers in collaboration with China’s classical ballet flagship company, the National Ballet of China. With dancers from different cultures, traditions and dance backgrounds ( Chinese, Korean, Indian, South African and Spanish), they resemble a present day version of the tale of Babel – a community that wants to create a utopian project, but speaking in different languages, with 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.

Reviews of Bahok:

www.arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/dance/reviews/story/0,,2264142,00.html

www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.2108608.0.bahok_liverpool_playhouse.php

www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/20068/bahok

www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/arts/2008/03/10/btbahok110.xml

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/reviews/bahok-the-playhouse-liverpool-794376.html

Image by: Hugo Glendinning

• Thu 22 - Sat 24 May 2008

  8:00pm

  Tramway 1

  £12 / £6