Roundhouse,London
With this arresting take on an episode from the Mahabharata, Khan creates an epic theatrical space and a battleground
The Mahabharata has been a kind of artistic domestic to Akram Khan. As a teenage dancer he performed in Peter Brook’s celebrated production of the Indian epic, or as a choreographer he’s returned several times to its imagery and ideas. His 2009 work Gnosis was inspired by one of its characters,Gandhari. And his latest production, Until the Lions, and uses Karthika Nair’s poetic adaptation of the Mahabharata to focus on the yarn of Amba,a princess who is abducted from her betrothal ceremony by the powerful and obdurately celibate Prince Bheeshma, and who takes revenge on him by killing herself and assuming the form of a male warrior.
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Source: theguardian.com