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DESH is a new full length contemporary solo and the most personal work to date from celebrated choreographer and performer, Akram Khan. DESH meaning 39homeland39 in Bengali, draws multiple tales of land, nation, resistance and convergence into the body and voice of one man trying to find his balance in an unstable world. Moving between Britain and Bangladesh, Khan weaves threads of memory, experience and myth into a surreal world of surprising connection. At once intimate and epic, DESH explores fragility in the face of natural forces, and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in the rhythms of labour, in dream and story, and in transformation and survival. For this production, Khan teams up with Oscar winning visual artist Tim Yip Production Designer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, fellow Sadlerrsquos Wells Associate Artist lighting designer Michael Hulls, writer and poet Karthika Nair and Olivier award winning composer Jocelyn Pook. These are rescheduled performances from the Feb 2012 dates which were cancelled due to injury.
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