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September 23, 2009

BAHOK - Akram Khan Company

NITIN SAWHNEY / AKRAM KHAN

Guest performance

1st Days of Dance at the Teatr Wielki

As part of the 8th body/mind International Contemporary Dance Festival

Art Director/Choreographer: Akram Khan

Dancers:
Eulalia Ayguade Farro, Young Jin Kim, Andrej Petrovic, Saju,
Shanell Winlock, Cheng-Fang Wu, Set Byeol Lim, Zhenxin Zhang

Composer: Nitin Sawhney
Chinese Music Advisor: Gisele Edwards
Additional Music: My Friend of Angel Tribe by Mari Boine
Lighting Designer: Fabiana Piccioli
Set conceived by: Fabiana Piccioli, Sander Loonen and Akram Khan
Dramaturge: Guy Cools
Producer: Farooq Chaudhry
Tour Manager: Christina Paul
Technical Coordinator: Richard Fagan
Technician: Charlie Kirchin

Co-produced by:
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
British Council
The Liverpool Culture Company with Merseyside Dance Initiative
DanceXchange, Birmingham
Theatre de La Ville, Paris
Tanzhaus NRW Dusseldorf,
National Arts Centre, Ottawa
China Now, London

Supported by:
Arts Council England
The New England Foundation for the Arts

Special thanks to: Hisashi Itoh, Hanif Kureishi, Gerard Lemos, Meng Ning Ning, Wang Yitong, Sun Chia Ying, Fei Bo, Yuko Inoue, Riz Ahmed, Hester Campbell, Gauri Sharma Triparthi, Kei Ito, Darvish Fakhr and Mr and Mrs Khan

Visit the official site of Akram Khan Company

Many leading ballet companies have performed at the Teatr Wielki in the past. They include the New York City Ballet, Royal Ballet, Rambert Ballet, Ballet of the Twentieth Century, Bolshoi Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre Ballet, Het Nationale Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater, Hamburg Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Bavarian Ballet, Australian Ballet, Teatro alla Scala Ballet, right up to small contemporary dance groups and dance theatres. We have decided to make these visits a cyclic event by organizing annual Days of Dance at the Teatr Wielki. These will always be held before the official opening of the season at the Polish National Opera, and will be hosted by the Polish National Ballet under Krzysztof Pastor's management.

In bahok Akram Khan, the world-famous British choreographer of Bangladeshi origin interested in merging different and diverse traditions and cultures, explores issues of identity and the home of modern man. His five-member company comprises a Korean, an Indian, a South African, a Slovak and a Spanish dancer. They form a group which creates a mixture of cultures, traditions, and dance on stage. Combining the dynamics of contemporary China and its folklore with elements of Kathak and influences of Western contemporary and classical dance, they search for a universal, original language of communication. The music for the performance was written by Nitin Sawhney.
The premiere of BAHOK took place in Beijing on 25 January 2008. The show has been successfully shown in many countries, including Britain, Syria, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, France, Abu Dhabi, Croatia, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Mexico.
Akram Khan, born in 1974, was 30 when he became an associated artist of Sadler's Wells Theatre and was awarded an MBE for his services to the UK dance community. This year ITI-UNESCO invited him to write and present the International Dance Day message to the world.

Time:1 hour 15 min.
Music from recording

Photo: Liu Yang, Hugo Glendinning, Ranki

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