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The London International Festival of Theatre 2024
From futuristic food markets to raw political monologues and genre-defying dance, this year’s London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) once again proves that performance art can provoke, enlighten, and transform. Highlights include Bat Night Market, The Land Acknowledgement, and L’Homme Rare—each offering audiences a radically different, yet deeply resonant experience.
Jungle Book Reimagined
Akram Khan’s magical dance-theatre retelling of Kipling’s classic tale is a moving piece which weaves in modern themes of climate change and migration to a traditional favourite revisited.
Where Dance Meets Painting…
“As I have been a dancer of ballet, contemporary dance, jazz since the age of 5, these disciplines have been part of my life and my vision. Everything I see and look at in the world, as an observer, is through the eyes of dance and movement.”
Feet of fire
How do you reinvent an art form so rooted in tradition? The answer appears to be, by merging both the traditional alongside the innovative and then having it performed by some of the best flamenco dancers in the world.
How crazy is that! Filming #theworldscraziestdancevideo
For those few minutes of filming they felt like they were in the spotlight, that they really mattered, that the world out there – about which many have only a very sketchy understanding – was looking at them.
Dance: twenty questions to José Navas
Founding artistic director of Compagnie Flak, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2015, José Navas orients his choreographic research in three directions: he performs his solo creations with intensity, he creates enchanting abstract group pieces, and he makes commissions for contemporary ballet that marry classicism to sensitivity.