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ONE tour ends in praise…  

The 2018 tour of ONE came to an end last week at Luton Library Theatre to overwhelming praise  

 

WHAT OUR AUDIENCES SAID 
“Hypnotic”
 
 "mesmerising" 

"..thank you for another utterly stunning performance ..evoked so many emotions" 

"A tour de force .. a revolutionary performance...
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"Stunning performance... What clarity of movement, what artistry from the musicians and Amina, Astonishing!" 

"Very, very occasionally there is a performance where the boundaries of the form are transcended and where…

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Hum In My Heart project workshops.. 

The company is soon reaching its first stage of workshops for the project exploring mental health.  Workshoping in Woking, Birmingham and Luton, Amina will start developing narratives for the new  work to premiere as Part 1 in Woking in April 2019. 

Hum in My Heart is made site specific in different parts at each place. Each performance will have a new and different story. 

The workshops have been immensely contributing to participants – 

“I have never spoken about this until now, and now it’s all…

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AKDC company dancer Jane Chan blogs from MEVUELVES LORCA FESTIVAL /KATHAK FLAMENCO COLLABORATION 

DAY ONE 

AKDC company dancer Jane Chan shares her account of the ONE collaboration between Amina Khayyam and Belen Maya in Laroles – Me Vuelves Lorca Festival 

The long anticipated collaboration of ONE between Amina Khayyam and Belen Maya began as the company travels from London to Laroles. After two flights from London to Madrid, Madrid to Granada and a long two hour drive weaving along the Lorca mountains as the sun set, we finally arrived in a beautiful village full of white houses with fig, almond…

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Collaboration with Belen Maya / Me Vuelves Lorca Festival 

 

This weekend the company journeys deep into Lorca’s mountains of Andalusia to begin an exciting and ambitious collaboration exploring kathak’s connection with roma/flamenco for the Me Vuelves Lorca Festival.  

Amina Khayyam will lead her company of musicians Debasish Mukherjee, Lucy Rahman, Alastair Morgan with Jane Chan on ‘paranth’ and joined by the very talented and versatile guitarist Guiliano Modarelli, to work with roma flamenco star Belen Maya, who will be joined by flamenco vocalist Noelia la…

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