KATHAKBOX

BY SONIA SABRI COMPANY

When?

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 19.30

Where?

Ivy Arts Centre

Open to:

Staff, Public, Students

Admission price:

£12, £10 senior citizens, University staff, £7 students, concessions

Tickets:

Tickets are available from the University Box Office: T: 01483 686876, E: boxoffice@surrey.ac.uk

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Sonia Sabri Company celebrate the unique, diverse energy of modern Britain through a brand new dance style: Urban Kathak. Kathakbox brings together Indian Kathak dance’s grace and vigour and the rhythms and rhymes of Hip Hop culture. Complex classical rhythms converse with beatbox and the verbal dexterity of Kathak rap (Kavitt) layers with urban poetry. Kathakbox does not ‘box in’ these genres to a particular time or place, but discovers the raw spirit and heartbeat of each art form which reverberate between cultures.

Reflecting the diverse, intersecting rhythms of the human experience, Kathakbox encourages us to ‘think outside the box’. This bold, heartpounding production features Sonia Sabri performing alongside three dancers including dynamic b-boy Nathan Geering, tabla maestro Sarvar Sabri, acclaimed spoken word artist and vocalist Marcina Arnold and beatboxer Shan Bansil. Hip Hop guru Jonzi D injects attitude as the production’s artistic consultant and the renowned vocalist Zena Edwards weaves her spell of poetry as guest composer. 

 
Kathakbox UK tour is supported by Arts Council England. Kathakbox is a co-production with mac and has also been commissioned by The Place, PRS Foundation, The Drum and Birmingham City Council. International residency is supported by ADACH, Abu Dhabi, and the British Council.

For More info on KathakBox, please visit the website.

For more info on the Sonia Sabri Company, visit their website.