Until the Lions Akram Khan Company trailer 2017

In this partial adaptation of poet Karthika Naïrs book Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, an original reworking of the epic Mahabharata, Khan uses kathak and contemporary dance to tell the tale of Amba, a princess abducted on her wedding day and stripped of her honour, who invokes the gods to seek revenge. Bringing together some of the original team from his acclaimed solo DESH, Khan explores the notion and the physical expression of gender. Until the Lions is one of Khans most startling and spectacular works to date, in which dancers Rianto, ChingYing Chien and Christine Joy Ritter perform alongside four musicians.