Rising

2014-02-06 19:30 2014-02-08 21:30 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Aakash Odedra

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/5506

Rising features exciting young British- Indian Kathak dancer Aakash Odedra performing to perfection in solo works created especially for him. By encouraging top-ranked choreographers Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Russell Maliphant to highlight different aspects of himself – lyrical and graceful, brutal and raw, edgy and animalistic – Odedra the dancer originates an idiosyncratic new flavor of contemporary dance that is uniquely his own. Rising has been wildly praised by...

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Azrieli Studio,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
February 6 - 8, 2014
February 6 - 8, 2014
Azrieli Studio 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada
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“Aakash Odedra is simply breathtaking ... a stunning talent [who] can attract the very best. Rising is a masterpiece of speed and virtuosity. Odedra shows off all the showy tricks of Kathak, but as if on steroids.”” Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail
  • ≈ 1 hour and 15 minutes · With intermission

Rising features exciting young British- Indian Kathak dancer Aakash Odedra performing to perfection in solo works created especially for him. By encouraging top-ranked choreographers Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Russell Maliphant to highlight different aspects of himself – lyrical and graceful, brutal and raw, edgy and animalistic – Odedra the dancer originates an idiosyncratic new flavor of contemporary dance that is uniquely his own. Rising has been wildly praised by critics, amazed by Odedra’s jangling, rogue energy, his astonishing technique and his hypnotically undulating body.

Program Notes (pdf 865.03 KB)
  • Choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Akram Khan
contemporary | dance | international |

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