{"id":191536,"date":"2025-10-02T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/02\/choreographer-akram-khan-blends-spirituality-feminine-rituals-and-desert-landscapes\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:19:16","slug":"choreographer-akram-khan-blends-spirituality-feminine-rituals-and-desert-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/02\/choreographer-akram-khan-blends-spirituality-feminine-rituals-and-desert-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Choreographer Akram Khan blends spirituality, feminine rituals and desert landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Choreographer and dancer\u00a0Akram Khan took inspiration from the Nabataean tribes of the Saudi Arabian desert for his latest creation \u00ab\u00a0Thikra: Night of Remembering\u00a0\u00bb, as he delves into regional traditions with Saudi artist Manal Al Dowayan. He tells us why staging an all-women production in the kingdom came naturally, despite taboos surrounding public performances and why his work has always been informed by a female gaze. We also discuss his life-changing collaboration with the late director Peter Brook and his upcoming projects as Khan tours his last production with the dance company he founded 25 years ago.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choreographer and dancer\u00a0Akram Khan took inspiration from the Nabataean tribes of the Saudi Arabian desert for his latest creation \u00ab\u00a0Thikra: Night of Remembering\u00a0\u00bb, as he delves into regional traditions with Saudi artist Manal Al Dowayan. He tells us why staging an all-women production in the kingdom came naturally, despite taboos surrounding public performances and why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-191536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}