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TOROBAKA

Akram Khan & Israel Galván

Dates

Prices

5 — 36 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Tuesday-Saturday
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

15, 18, 25, 36 €
Concs 10, 12, 15 €
Unemployed 5 €

Two firebrands together on stage in a breathtaking mix of Kathak and Flamenco-an explosion of dance and music!

Photo: Jean Louis Fernandez

When two firebrands meet on stage, and the risk-takers in question are Israel Galván and Akram Khan, you know something ground-breaking is going to emerge from the mix...

Israel Galván is an award-winning Flamenco dancer and choreographer who has committed himself to taking his art in new directions. In turn, the charismatic and inventive Akram Khan has worked tirelessly to explore and break down the boundaries between Kathak and contemporary dance.

The roots of their techniques go back centuries, their traditions open up a vast fan of cultures, and yet they fall into step with astonishing ease. For there is an invisible thread, a shared lineage, which connects these two traditions with their foot stamps and circular hand movements, their abrupt rhythmic changes and music produced in part by the dancer’s body.

The two choreographers seek to transcend the obvious and reach the point at which, together, they can break the moulds of their respective cultures from within and create, in an explosion of dance and live music, a performance in which two bodies become one but retain their own idioms as they do so. A production that will delight audiences with its intensity, its precision and the profound experience of freedom it imparts.

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Watch a web documentary about TOROBAKA.
(Co-commissioned by Sadler's Wells and the BBC/Arts Council England digital project The Space, this interactive film created and directed by the talented Maxime Dos offers a valuable insight into the creation of the piece.)

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Credits

  • Created and performed by

    Israel Galván and Akram Khan

  • Music arranged and performed by

    David Azurza Bobote, Christine Leboutte, B C Manjunath

  • Lighting Designer

    Michael Hulls

  • Costume Designer

    Kimie Nakano

  • Sound

    Pedro León

  • Rehearsal Director

    Jose Agudo

  • Production Coordinator

    Amapola López

  • Production Manager

    Sander Loonen

  • Technical Coordinator

    Pablo Pujol

  • Lighting

    Stéphane Déjours

  • Tour Managers

    Amapola López and Mashitah Omar

  • Producers

    Farooq Chaudhry & Bia Oliveira (Khan Chaudhry Productions) and Chema Blanco & Cisco Casado (A Negro Producciones)

  • Co-produced by

    MC2: Grenoble, Sadler’s Wells London, Mercat de les Flors Barcelona,Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Festival Montpellier Danse 2015, Onassis Stegi - Athens, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay Singapore, Prakriti Foundation, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam / Flamenco Biënnale Nederland, Concertgebouw Brugge, HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Romaeuropa Festival

  • Sponsored by

    COLAS

  • Produced during residency at

    Mercat de les Flors Barcelona and MC2: Grenoble

  • Supported by

    Arts Council England

  • Associate Artist of Théâtre de la Ville Paris and Mercat de les Flors Barcelona

    Israel Galván

  • Associate Artist of MC2: Grenoble and Sadler's Wells London in a special international co-operation

    Akram Khan

  • Special thanks to

    the whole MC2 team, Hervé Le Bouc, Sophie Sadeler, Béatrice Abeille-Robin, Mr. & Mrs. Khan, Yuko Khan, Aditi Mangaldas, Pedro G. Romero, Pandit Lachhu Maharaj, Shlomo and Jacob Galván

  • World Premiere

    MC2: Grenoble, France, 2 June 2014

  • Spanish Premiere

    XXXI Festival de Otoño a Primavera, Madrid, 27 June 2014

  • UK Premiere

    Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 3 November 2014

Biographies

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