CANCELLED: Khan / Cherkaoui / Pite

In Kaash, Hindi for ‘if’, the British-Bengali choreographer Akram Khan presents his own vision of Shiva, the god of both destruction and creation. The world-famous artist Anish Kapoor translates this transcendent theme into a poetic stage setting. With his compelling rhythmic structures, the English-Indian composer Nitin Sawhney then creates parallels with Khan’s powerful movement idiom, rooted in the Indian dance form Kathak.

In his virtuoso duet Faun, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui created a new perspective on one of the most important works in music and dance history, namely Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune in the original, legendary choreography by Vaslav Nijinski. In Cherkaoui’s sensual version, he lets the faun meet his female counterpart in a complex game of animal attraction. Nitin Sawhney provides a fascinating contemporary translation into music.

In her highly acclaimed Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue, the Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite approaches the theme of rescue between two people in a very personal way. Petite’s work is characterized by a brilliant theatricality and a keen language of movement. In ten intimate duets, she shows us a close-up of the interaction between two people and never shies away from humour and self-questioning.