“Khan’s distinctive choreography, which leaps and whirls, thrills and surprises as it shifts across styles and continents and echoes the origins of dancers.” —The Herald (Glasgow)
British choreographer Akram Khan has built an international reputation on his unique, global mix of styles: contemporary dance, martial arts, classical ballet, and a freewheeling style of North Indian kathak. Here he creates a thoroughly entertaining vision of a modern-day Babel with dancers from China, Spain, Slovakia, India, South Korea, Taiwan, South Africa, and the UK. The story of bahok (Bengali for “carrier”) unfolds as disparate travelers connect briefly and exchange the things they carry with them—memories, experiences, dreams, and reasons for leaving home—telling what it’s like to be “lost in translation.” Copresented with Northrop Dance at the University of Minnesota.
