East

Kaash - Akram Khan
With his unique dance style rooted in classical Indian kathak dance, Khan explores the limits of the Western dance idiom. With Kaash Khan presents a personal, original vision of Shiva. Akram Khan approaches this god of both destruction and creation, traditionally synonymous with a deeply rooted past, from the opposite perspective: what are our potentials for the future? Artist Anish Kapoor translates this transcendent theme into a poetic stage design and the English-Indian composer Nitin Sawhney creates musical parallels with the powerful austerity of Khan’s abstract language of movement.

Secus - Ohad Naharin
An abstract choreography about power and extremes in the virtuoso lexicon of movements that Naharin personally created and named ‘Gaga’. In Secus, the boundaries are explored between the explosive and the delicate through the concept of exaggeration and understatement. Secus is a key work in the oeuvre of Ohad Naharin and takes the dancer’s own breaking of boundaries as its theme.

Requiem - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
A new creation to the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, supplemented with eastern-inspired compositions by Wim Henderickx, performed live by HERMESensemble. In addition to the dancers of Royal Ballet Flanders, Cherkaoui will also bring the Chorus and Children's Chorus of Opera Vlaanderen to the stage. This Requiem is all about blending, with great respect for the various traditions. The Requiem as a serene and contemplative plea for the emancipation of humankind.