5/21/2023 0 Comments Wasteland 3 ballerina puzzle“Outwitting the Devil” began around a table, with an image of the “Last Supper”. “Outwitting the Devil” is a myth of all times, for our times. Confronted with the truth and sorrow of human mortality, Gilgamesh passes into history, to become a fragment among the broken remnants of human culture and memory. But the killing of Humbaba and destruction of the forest and its animals angers the gods, who punish the young king by taking the life of his beloved Enkidu. Fuelled by strength and pride, Young Gilgamesh determines to establish his fame and fortify the city of Uruk as a monument to himself. It tells the story of Gilgamesh’s domestication of and friendship with the wild man Enkidu, their journey to the vast Cedar Forest, home to wild beings and spirits, and the slaughter of its guardian Humbaba. Akram Khan’s new work embodies a violent chapter in young Gilgamesh’s life, read and recalled by his older, dying self. “Outwitting the Devil” is inspired by a fragment of the 12 broken clay tablets which together make up one of the world’s oldest great works of literature, the ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Everybody took a piece, they looked at it and thought they had the truth. The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. But what remains unchanged is my passion for exploring old and new myths in the context of our times. 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. The young man cannot imagine the old man he will become.Īs I arrive at the end of my dancing career, I have awakened to a new way of dancing. Night after night I have the same dream: I am young, immortal, an axe in my hand. Akram Khan is an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells and Mountview in London and Curve Leicester. Supported by Arts Council England Produced during residency at CENTRAL – Centre Culturel de La Louvière, Théâtre de Namur, and Festival d’Avignon. Partridge, Mythili Prakash, Elpida Skourou, François TestoryĬo-production: Théâtre de Namur – Centre Scénique, CENTRAL – Centre Culturel de La Louvière, Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, Sadler’s Wells London, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – scène nationale, COLOURS International Dance Festival 2019 – Stuttgart, Attiki Cultural Society - Athens, Greece Material devised and performed by: Luke Jessop, Jasper Narvaez, Louis T. Original music score, sound design: Vincenzo Lamagna Artistic direction, choreography: Akram Khan
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