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Akram Khan is renowned for developing his own 'contemporary Kathak' style, and is acclaimed for the incredible vitality he brings to cross-cultural expression.
Winner of numerous awards including a Time Out, Critic's Circle and South Bank Show award, recent highlights at Sadler’s Wells have included his hit collaboration with Sidi Larbi, zero degrees, and bahok, a work he created for the National Ballet of China.
- "My talk with Akram focuses on the intercultural and bitemporal body and the idea that intercultural exchange is less determined by geography than by time: the negotiation between different traditions and the bridging between tradition and the present. It deals with notions such as the 'con-fusion' of the body and the ‘in-between’ as developed by the French psychoanalyst and philosopher Daniel Sibony."
- GUY COOLS
This special event is an opportunity to see Khan in discussion with
Guy Cools, an international curator, writer, and dramaturg who has worked on several productions well known to Sadler's Wells audiences including
zero degrees and
Sacred Monsters. He is currently teaching, writing, lecturing and publishing in Europe and Canada.
Supported by the
Jerwood Charitable Foundation as part of the
Jerwood Studio at Sadler's Wells research programme.
