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Malta’s premier contemporary dance company, the critically acclaimed ŻfinMalta Dance Ensemble, present a DOUBLE BILL of work by celebrated choreographers Mavin Khoo, the company’s Artistic Director, and ŻfinMalta Associate Choreographer Iván Pérez.

The two pieces – Kick the Bucket by Pérez, and Home by Khoo – are designed to take the audience on a journey of discovery, passion and intricate choreography and will be performed by an international cast of outstanding dancers. Individually and together, the DOUBLE BILL reflects the versatility of this exciting company’s Euro-Mediterranean roots.

Kick The Bucket is a duet by Netherlands-based choreographer Iván Pérez with music by film composer Aaron Martin. Inspired by the work of Exchart Tolle – internationally acclaimed for his best-selling spiritual book The Power of Now – the piece searches for life’s hidden meanings and uses the body to explore power dynamics in everyday relationships. Kick The Bucket is performed by Mavin Khoo and Gabin Corredor.

Home by Mavin Khoo weaves a cinematic narrative through the life of a single man and asks the audience to reconsider the notion of home as a structural location of dwelling and whether our identity is constructed via constant navigation of social rules…

Key Information

When

Friday 27 January 2017

Where

DanceXchange, The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome

 

 

Mavin Khoo comments
I was interested in devising a work that looked at the idea of home as a metaphor to the identity construction of a single man’s life journey.  Home follows the man through birth, childhood, love, tragedy and death and he is accompanied by seven other manifestations of his previous existences. The man’s inner voice, the Protagonist, was recorded in Valletta, where we’re based, by British actor Felix Brunger which gives the piece another vital dimension.

Artistic Director Mavin Khoo is a critically acclaimed dancer and choreographer, rehearsal director for Akram Khan and founder of his own company mavinkhooDance. He was faculty member of the Dance Studies Department (School of Performing Arts) at the University of Malta and became Artistic Director of ŻfinMalta Dance Ensemble in 2014 for an agreed three year contract. Mavin will be leaving the company in July 2017 to pursue other international opportunities but will retain his connection with ŻfinMalta by becoming Associate Artist.

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