photos by John Ross
I'm thrilled to be seeing yet another choreography by Akram Khan. From the 6th to the 9th October at Sadlers Wells in London, Khan will be showing his latest performance 'Vertical Road'. Closely inspired from Sufi tradition and the persian poet and philosopher Rumi, he takes us on a road between the earthly and the spiritual.
'I died from minerality and became vegetable;
And from vegetativeness I died and became animal.
I died from animality and became man.
Then why fear disappearance through death?
Next time I shall die
Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels;
After that, soaring higher than angels -
What you cannot imagine,
I shall be that.'
(Rumi)