Performance
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In the Flesh
Billy Cowie -
How do you like my landscape
Manah Depauw and Bernard Van Eeghem -
Critical Encounters 1: Encountering Children and Animals
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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
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Thu 22 - Sat 24 May 2008
8:00pm
Tramway 1
£12 / £6
