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THIKRA: Night of remembering

Akram Khan Company
©Camilla Greenwell
Dates and Schedules

5–7 February
Friday and Saturday, 8.00 pm; Sunday, 5.30 pm

Venue

Sala Luis Miguel Cintra

Price

€12 to €15 (with discounts) | (free with the Culture Pass – available only at the Theatre box office)

Age Restriction

6+

Description

The Matriarch, the elder and leader of the gathering returns for one night of exchange. She understands the power of all its elements. Alongside two sisters – one who evokes and one who serves as a ritualistic vessel -they lead the tribe to summon their ancestor spirit from the Knowledge Rock.
She symbolises the past, the ruins and the memory of generations that have lived through the cyclic flaws of humankind. She returns to her tribe for one night of exchange.
This night is a moment to reflect on their collective past. Through the memory of their history and a colonised past, the tribe finds space to heal, to transcend as they surrender to the ritual of life and death.
In this reconnection, there is release. And only then does the ancestral spirit return to rest, until another year.

 

 

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Cast and Creative

Director / Choreographer Akram Khan Visual Director / Costume and Scenography Manal AlDowayan Narrative Concept Manal AlDowayan & Akram Khan Creative Associate / Coach Mavin Khoo Music Composer and Soundscape Designer Aditya Prakash Sound Designer Gareth Fry Lighting Designer Zeynep Kepekli Associate Lighting Designer Imogen Clarke Dramaturge Blue Pieta Rehearsal Director Angela Towler or Chris Tudor Performed by 9-11 dancers Pallavi Anand, Laura Bufano, Ching-Ying Chien, Amrita Doshi, Ekta Doshi, Kavya Ganesh, Shreya Kannan, Madoka Kariya, Azusa Seyama Prioville, Aishwarya Raut, Nikita Rao, Divya Ravi, Rohini Shetty, Elpida Skourou, Mei Fei Soo, Seren Williams Producing Director Farooq Chaudhry Executive Director Isabel Tamen Technical Manager Michael Cunningham Production of Visual Direction Carla Giachello Company Manager Emma Cameron Touring Production Manager Anthony Forrester Technical Stage Manager Harry Abbott Sound Engineer Enrico Aurigemma Lighting Engineer Stephane Dejours Wardrobe Supervisor Anne-Marie Bigby Costume Maker Peggy Housset Set Builder Tin Shed Featured music in score The Elephant’s Funeral by Sushma Soma with Aditya Prakash, Gyura Beli Belo Platno by London Bulgarian Choir, Directed by Dessislava Stefanova Musicians (in recorded composition) Aditya Prakash, Ananya Ashok, Loulwa Al Sharif, Melanie Pappenheim, Sohini Alam, Zafer Tawil, Sumesh Narayanan, Layth Sidiq, Megan Shung, Jay Julio, Naseem Alatrash, Guhan Venkataraman, Doyeon Kim, Dimitris Menexopoulos, Isaac Alderson, Sushma Soma, Praveen Sparsh, V. Prakash Ilayaraja, N Deepan, N Vijay, M Rajendran, Chris Votek Commissioned by Wadi AlFann, Valley of the Arts, AlUla Indoor adaptation co-produced by Berliner Festspiele, Brown Arts Institute at Brown University, Montpellier Danse Festival, Pina Bausch Zentrum, Sadler’s Wells, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville Paris With support from Bagri Foundation Supported by Arts Council England Special thanks to Light Contrast, Mrs Khan, Yuko, Sayuri, Kenzo and Ayana Khan

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