AKRAM KHAN & ISRAEL GALVAN – TOROBAKA

Akram Khan Company produces thoughtful, provocative and ambitious dance productions for the international stage. Akram Khan takes human themes and works with others to take them to new and unexpected places – embracing and collaborating with other cultures and disciplines. The dance language in each production is rooted in Akram Khan’s classical Kathak and modern…

BUNK PUPPETS – STICKS STONES BROKEN BONES

Flying chickens, brain transplants and sneaky ninjas! Watch as household junk, bits of cardboard and fluff, are transformed into surreal shadow puppet characters in cartoon-like adventures. In each scene, the shadow puppetry is performed in front of the screen, giving the audience a peak at how the silhouettes come to life. An imaginative, and hilarious journey through the creative mind…

BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY – SADEH21

Ohad Naharin is one of the most original choreographic minds of our time—a modern guru whose pioneering dance language, Gaga, uses bodily self-awareness to produce constant, fluid motion and an unthinkable elasticity. Rooted in this practice is Sadeh21[1], a collection of movement studies by Naharin and his Israeli-based Batsheva Dance Company. Eighteen dancers—backed by music by…

CHUNKY MOVE – 247 DAYS

Concept Drawing on reflections of a stranger in a foreign land, 247 Days is Anouk van Dijk’s intimate exploration into the subtleties of everyday human existence. An exposition of what we most passionately love, fear, desire and hate, 247 Days investigates how these divergent facets manage to coexist in all of us simultaneously. Focusing on the individual, Van Dijk’s…

MEHR THEATRE GROUP – IVANOV

What better way to represent the depressing inertia of Chekhov’s antihero Ivanov than by an enormous couch with comfortable cushions? For the better part of the performance Ivanov sits, no, slouches there, an indolent layabout who has given up caring a rap about his surroundings, his wife, her mortal illness or his own botched life.…

RAMIREZ WANG- MONCHICHI

Sébastien Ramirez and Honji Wang are contemporary dancers who come from the hip-hop scene. From this common background they drew the choreographic mould of their double act,Monchichi, and confront the enigma of cultural difference. The dance loosens and transcends such contrasts to suit the feelings conveyed by Everydayz/+∞’s music.