Thikra: Night of Remembering

Akram Khan, one of the leading choreographers of the 21st century, returns to Cologne. In THIKRA: NIGHT OF REMEMBERING Akram Khan and the award-winning visual artist Manal Al Dowayan draw on the layers of myth and ritual retained by the desert landscape of Wadi AlFann in AlUla and its inhabitants in an effort to reconcile past, present and future. A brilliant cast of fourteen dancers remove the boundaries between Bharatanatyam – classical Indian dance – and Western contemporary dance, enabling hybrid cultures, traditions and perspectives to emerge.