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SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 21H30
“His dancing speaks to the gods.”
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Outwitting the Devil is inspired by a fragment from the Gilgamesh Epic, one of the earliest surviving works of world literature, that describes the admiration of Sumer’s semi-divine king for abundance and biodiversity, and which is therefore considered to be the world's first environmental poem. Featuring a cast of dancers from different cultures and generations, the performance begins with a large black wooden box, which suggests a table or coffin - the first and the last supper, reminiscent of the painting by the Australian artist, Susan Dorothea White who reformulates Leonardo Da Vinci's iconic work by solely depicting women and thereby challenging the assumptions of patriarchal culture, that are also found in Gilgamesh. In an epic of broken boards and fallen idols, Akram Khan fires a warning shot on the stage. Here the devil is, in fact, man himself - a creature capable of destroying everything, and everyone, around him.
Artistic Director/Choreographer
Akram Khan
Dramaturg
Ruth Little
Lighting Designer
Aideen Malone
Visual Designer
Tom Scutt
Original Music Score and Sound Design
Vincenzo Lamagna
Costume Designer
Kimie Nakano
Writer
Jordan Tannahill
Rehearsal Director
Azusa Seyama
Ching-Ying Chien, Jasper Narvaez, Dominique Petit, Mythili Prakash, Sam Asa Pratt,
James Vu Anh Pham
Executive Producer
Farooq Chaudhry
Technical Manager
Tina Fagan
Production Manager
Rich Fagan
Stage Manager
Lars Davidson
Lighting Engineer
Stéphane Déjours
Sound Engineer
Pete Thomas
Tour Manager
Mai Saroh Tassinari
Light Contrast Ltd
Original material devised byChing-Ying Chien, Andrew Pan, Dominique Petit, James Vu Anh Pham, Mythili Prakash, Sam Asa Pratt
Co-produced by
Théâtre de Namur – Centre Scénique, CENTRAL – Centre Culturel de La Louvière, Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, Sadler’s Wells London, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – scène nationale, COLOURS International Dance Festival 2019 – Stuttgart
Supported by
Arts Council England
Akram Khan is an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells and Mountview in London and Curve Leicester
Special thanks to Alistair Spalding, Vincent Thirion and Melanie Dumoulin, Patrick Colpé, Meinrad Huber and Eric Gauthier, Olivier Py and Agnès Troly, and the teams at Sadler’s Wells, CENTRAL – La Louvière, Théâtre de Namur, COLOURS Festival and Festival d’Avignon, Tamas Detrich and the team at Stuttgart Ballet, Mr. & Mrs. Khan, Yuko Khan, Aharya Dresses for Mythili Prakash’s costume and all the collaborators and technicians who have worked on the project.
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Running time 80 min.
M/6
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