Animal Kingdom

The Animal Kingdom Project is an initiation between Numeridanse and Akram Khan Company. Inspired from the Company’s production Outwitting the Devil that centres the human connection to the natural world, this project is an opportunity for you to evoke the wild things that we believe, live in you. 

We would like to invite all of you from wherever you are in the world, no matter what age you are, what your physical ability is or level of dance experience, to explore the deepest part of your imagination. We would like you to choreograph your own performance using animals as the starting point. We’re encouraging you to then film your creative genius and send the performance video to Numeridanse. The film will then be displayed online and will create an animal kingdom that connects each of us around the world. 

You can do it on your own, in a duet or in a group. We will guide you through all that you need to know with the tutorial videos. 

In a world where people are connecting through digital devices more and more, it feels like the perfect time to invent and invest in new ways of coming together. Join us in this adventure! Create it, film it, share it. With all the videos we receive, we will edit a final dance film that will represent our global community: our shared animal kingdom. 

So, what are the animals that live within you?

GO TO THE PROJECT PAGE TO LEARN MORE AND PARTICIPATE

“I have awakened to a new way of dancing.  And that is to dance my  ideas through the bodies of others, including  older dancers, who carry  their histories and complex emotional  experiences within them. But what  remains unchanged is my passion for  exploring old and new myths in the  context of our times.” – Akram Khan

We are thrilled to be touring our latest Company production Outwitting the Devil.   Stirring classical and contemporary, Akram Khan explores our oldest   rituals in the midst of our ever-changing planet. He brings together a   superb ensemble of six international artists sharing great differences   in their practice: Ching-Ying Chien, Jasper Narvaez, Dominique Petit,  James Vu Anh Pham, Mythili Prakash and Sam Asa Pratt.

Inspired by the newly discovered fragment of the Babylonian Epic of   Gilgamesh, one of the world’s earliest surviving great works of   literature, Akram’s new work is a concentrated epic about ritual and   remembering. In a landscape of broken tablets and fallen idols, its six   characters trade their remaining wealth and stories, seeking to make   whole the fragments of ancient knowledge lost and forgotten over time.

To weave the narrative and design of this new piece, Akram has  invited his close collaborators: dramaturg Ruth Little, composer  Vincenzo Lamagna, rehearsal director Mavin Khoo, costume designer Kimie  Nakano, and writer Jordan Tannahill – joined by lighting designer Aideen  Malone and visual designer Tom Scutt. Outwitting the Devil invites us all to the table where life, death and our half-remembered myths are the bread we break together.

Source: Akram Khan Company

More information: akramkhancompany.net