Wim Vandekeybus is a director, choreographer, actor and photographer. His contact with animals in their natural environment as a young boy had a great emotional impact on both him and his work. Animals, their movements, their instinctive reactions and their trust in their own physical power
Akram Khan is a contemporary dance choreographer generating work based in both Kathak and modern dance. He is the artistic director of the Akram Khan Company.
At a young age Akram began learning Bengali folk dancing from his morther and studied Kathak under Sri Pratap Pawar. As a chi
Sylvie Guillem entered the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1976 and by the age of 19 was named "Etoile" by Rudolph Nureyev. She has also danced with the Royal Ballet of London and the American Ballet Theater.
Sylvie is not just a ballet dancer, she has entered the modern dance scene in