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Thikra incorporates Bharatanatyam and Western contemporary dancers; bridging a confluence of hybrid cultures, traditions and perspectives.
In Akram Khan Company’s latest production, Thikra: Night of Remembering, the past and present converge in a journey through tradition to honour our ancestors, deeply rooted in the power of rituals.
Khan draws profound inspiration from diverse cultures that engage in these sacred practices, paying homage to those who came before us. With scenography and costume design by award-winning visual artist Manal AlDowayan, the piece delves into our contemporary existence and identity, affirming the presence of our ancestral spirits.
Featuring an original music composition by Aditya Prakash, sound design by Gareth Fry, lighting design by Zeynep Kepekli, dramaturgy by Blue Pieta, and an all-female international cast of Contemporary and Bharatanatyam dancers, Thikra weaves a universal yet deeply personal narrative.
Together, these creative voices invite us to reflect on our own heritage and the rituals that have shaped our shared humanity.
Thikra, meaning ‘memory’, ‘recollection’, ‘thoughts of the past’, ‘remembrance’ in Arabic, is a performance that evokes, through contemporary dance, the idea that “without a past, there is no future.” The choreography and the dancers will embody the concepts of ancestral knowledge, forgetting, and collective learning and healing.
The performance will depict an imagined annual gathering performed to connect with ancestral knowledge. For one night, the present and past unite and embrace.
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