Kaash

World Premiere: 28 March 2002, Creteil, France
Last performance: 7 February 2004, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris

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.

The performances marked a turning point for Akram and the Company, and the production was brought back to life in 2014, for Kaash (Revival). 

 

Kaash

Production Trailer

‘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.’

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Credits

Akram Khan
Artistic Direction/ Choreography
Anish Kapoor
Set Designer
Aideen Malone
Light Designer

Artistic Direction/Choreography Akram Khan
Composer Nitin Sawhney
Additional Music ‘Spectre’ by John Oswald played by The Kronos Quartet
Set Designer Anish Kapoor
Light Designer Aideen Malone
Costume Designer Saeunn Huld

Materials devised and performed by
Rachel Krische (until August 2003)
Akram Khan
Moya Michael
Inn Pang Ooi
Shanell Winlock
Eulalia Ayguade Farro (after August 2003)

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