In his latest production award-winning choreographer and dancer Akram Khan uses kathak and contemporary dance to tell the tale of Amba, a princess abducted on her wedding day. UNTIL THE LIONS is a partial adaptation of poet Karthika Naïr’s book “Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata”, an original reworking of the epic Mahabharata. This new show explores themes of gender and sexuality and changes that time forces on the body.
»This is a little recracker of a show, one that really stays with you and grows in the memory.« The Telegraph
soundtrack composed by: Vincenzo Lamagna in Kollaboration mit Sohini Alam, David Azura, Yaron Engler, Akram Khan, Joy Alpuerto Ritter
dramaturgy: Ruth Little
assistant director: Sasha Milavic Davies
choreography assistant: Jose Agudo
voice-over: Kathryn Hunter
dancer: Ching-Ying Chien, Joy Alpuerto Ritter, Rianto
musicians: Sohini Alam, Joseph Ashwin, David Azurza, Yaron Engler
production: Farooq Chaudhry
technical manager: Richard Fagan
assistant set design & technical producer: Sander Loonen
technical coordinator: Peter Swikker
stage manager: Marek Pomocki
light technician : Stéphane Déjours
sound technician : Julien Deloison
costume assistant : Peggy Housset
model head design and produced by : Blind Summit
project manager / tour manager: Mashitah Omar
Supported by the Kampnagel Förderverein [k]-Plus and the Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (within the framework of the Bündnis internationaler Produktionshäuser).
