Aakash Odedra Company: Rising
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Aakash Odedra Company: Rising

Venue:
Shanghai International Dance Center
1650 Hongqiao Lu Changning Shanghai
Date:
11/16/2017 - 11/18/2017
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Aakash Odedra Company: Rising
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Aakash Odedra Company: Rising

11/16/2017 - 11/18/2017
Shanghai International Dance Center
1650 Hongqiao Lu Changning Shanghai
180 - 380
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Rising is the successful debut production of Aakash Odedra Company. It features four works performed by Aakash, exploring different processes and aesthetics to create a new personal language.
 
 
Cut - choreographed by Russell Maliphant
For "Cut" Russell creates a piece using elements and dynamics that Aakash is familiar with from his background in Kathak and Bharat Natyam. Shaping that into a world where the lighting cuts and highlights that movement and creates a contained world that expresses its own logic of flow and form. Working with lighting designer Michael Hulls to achieve this, and with composer Andy Cowton, both of whom have collaborated with Russell before, "Cut" is the result of this collaboration.

In The Shadow Of Man – choreographed by Akram Khan
British-born choreographer Akram Khan is celebrated internationally for the vitality he brings to intercultural, interdisciplinary expression. His dance language is rooted in his classical Kathak and modern dance training, which continually evolves to communicate ideas that are intelligent, courageous and new. Khan performs his own solos and collaborative works with other artists, and presents ensemble works through Akram Khan Company.
 

Constellation – choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Lightning and thunder. Light and sound. The illusions of distance and nearness they convey in a sky that deceptively appears constant. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has been fascinated by the different images these convey, while their source is often one and the same. He seeks to highlight different patterns of sound and different sources of light that come together to create a constellation, a system where things are kept suspended and in movement by each others’ gravitational fields and contending forces. By the flow of light and sound emanating from darkness and their return to that state. All this with and through Aakash as the locus, the astral body generating its own rhythms and luminosity.

Nritta (Kathak) – choreographed by Aakash Odedra
Originally from Birmingham, Aakash undertook Kathak training with Smt Nilima Devi in Leicester and Bharat Natyam with Smt Chitraleka Bolar in Birmingham. Aakash has been honoured with numerous awards and bursaries, including the Italian award Danza&Danza, a Dora performance award in Canada, the Audience Award Dance Week 2013 in Croatia, a Sky Academy Arts Scholarship and a Bessie Award (2014) whose organisation nominated him again after his outstanding performance in New York in 2016. Aakash was nominated as Best Male Dancer at the Eastern Eye ACTA Awards (London), 2017.
 
 
About Company
Aakash Odedra Company tells stories through movement. Inspired by South Asian classical dance, contemporary dance and collaborative partnerships, the work always seeks to enliven audiences and find new ways to engage with people. Aakash Odedra is one of the most sought-after dancers in the UK. With a growing international reputation for making and commissioning beautifully crafted dance works.

Aakash Odedra Company has firm roots in its hometown, Leicester. Aakash says, "for all the global touring and success, it would be futile if we could not share our journey in dance and provide high-quality opportunities at home". The Desi Masti Studio, founded by Producer Anand Bhatt in 2003, is a home for learning Dance in Leicester in a richly diverse community. The belief is that social, economic and physical regeneration can be inspired if we deeply invest in cultural learning. The three-thousand square-feet facility is used by some 200 learners per week.
 
 

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 Children under 1.2m are not allowed to enter inside.
 

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Aakash Odedra Company: Rising

Venue:
Shanghai International Dance Center
1650 Hongqiao Lu Changning Shanghai
Date:
11/16/2017 - 11/18/2017
This ticket is only available as a paper ticket
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