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Akram Khan Company
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With Akram Khan, one of the most important choreographers of the 21st century returns to the ImPulsTanz Festival. Back in 2001, he presented his first, already acclaimed solo Rush in the [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series. Since then, he has choreographed, among other works, a celebrated segment of the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Now, his highly anticipated new piece, Thikra: Night of Remembering, comes to ImPulsTanz at the Burgtheater directly after its world premiere in the summer of 2025.
Under the remarkable visual direction of award-winning visual artist Manal AlDowayan, Khan and his artistic collaborators delve once again into the mythological and ritual layers of the desert landscape of Wadi AlFann in AlUla and its inhabitants, seeking to reconcile past, present, and future. On stage: a brilliant cast of 14 dancers who merge Bharatanatyam and Western contemporary dance into hybrid cultures, traditions, and perspectives.
In this brand-new work, Akram Khan, the exceptional artist with roots in Bangladesh, combines his concern for life on Earth with a moving display of dance, music, and visual artistry. Or, as the Financial Times puts it: here is someone who speaks “magnificently about magnificent things.”
Program and cast
Burgtheater
The stage of the Burgtheater is one of the biggest theatre stages in the world. The stage portal is 12m wide, the main stage is 28,5m wide, 23m deep and 28m high. At the opening in 1888 the stage technology was already innovatory and has been modernized on many occasions. During the reconstruction after World War II, which was accomplished in 1955, a stage equipment was installed that is still revolutionary today. The revolving stage consists of a rotating cylinder (15m high, 21m diameter) and four hydraulic lifts (12 x 4 m each). With the help of this technical features the scenery can be changed within 40 seconds. It is the biggest automatic and computer controlled stagesystem in Europe.
The Burgtheater auditorium holds 1175 seats, it has standing room for 84 visitors and 12 places for disabled visitors.
Apart from the stage-art the Burgtheater plays an important part in architecture and interior design of the 19th century in Vienna. The magnificent decoration, especially the two imperial staircases painted by Gustav Klimt, his brother Ernst Klimt and their companion Franz Matsch as well as the main foyer and the many statues, busts and paintings of famous writers and actors can be visited during our dailyguided tour.
© Camilla Greenwell
© Camilla Greenwell
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