Akram Khan Company — Vertical Road
Akram Khan, one of the UK’s most innovative and influential dance talents, returns to Sadler’s Wells with his latest full scale contemporary ensemble work, Vertical Road.
- "Beautiful and harrowing"
- THE GUARDIAN (Sep 2010)
- "The choreography is at once exquisite and thrilling"
- THE OBSERVER (Sep 2010)
Choreographed by Khan and performed by a world-class cast of dancers from across Asia, Europe and the Middle East, this new work features a specially commissioned score by long-term collaborator Nitin Sawhney. Khan draws inspiration from universal myths of angels that symbolise 'ascension' - the road between the earthly and the spiritual, the Vertical Road.
Visually inspiring and spiritually profound, Vertical Road draws on the performers’ different cultural interpretation of the human odyssey. In Akram Khan’s words: "in a world moving so fast, with the growth of technology and information, I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically".
- "An extraordinarily talented choreographer, one who can conjure near- miracles from the human form"
- THE INDEPENDENT
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