Former Royal Festival Hall choreographer in residence, Akram Khan, teamed up with the celebrated talents of Anish Kapoor and Nitin Sawhney to present the Company’s first full-length work Kaash (Hindi word for “if”). ‘Hindu Gods, black holes, Indian time cycles, tablas, creation and destruction‘ were the starting points for this work. Danced by a five-strong international cast of performers, Kaash continued Akram Khan’s quest to build bridges between the worlds of contemporary dance and the Indian classical dance form Kathak.
It is important that we remind ourselves of the value of that which we cannot touch. Is it not true that the empty space inside the cup is what renders it useful? Similarly, the stillness between steps, the spaces between musical phrases and the empty spaces in space itself contain all the mysteries of their eventual forms.