I Imagine

Company production | 2016

I Imagine, combines beautiful choreography with powerful spoken word as Aakash collaborates with gifted, award-winning poet and fellow Sky Arts Academy Scholar Sabrina Mahfouz. Aakash and Sabrina explore the imagined future and the confines of skin. The experimental piece features masks made by Californian based Circus Practitioner David Poznanter, (credits include being Aamir Khan’s personal trainer for the blockbuster film Dhoom 3), and explores the dynamism of Dance/Performance Theatre. 

Credits

Choreography
Aakash Odedra 

Spoken Word
Sabrina Mahfouz

Producer
Anand Bhatt

Lighting
Fabiana Piccioli 

Music
Nicki Wells 

Masks
David Poznanter 

Technical Direction
Sander Loonen 

Co-produced by Curve (Leicester), DanceXchange (Birmingham), La Comete (Chalons–en-Champagne) and generously supported using Lottery Funds through Arts Council England. 

“I Imagine is not only a superb piece of dance theatre, but a thought-provoking one, and most definitely one for our time”.

— Dancing Times 

"Two solos [Echoes & I imagine] display Odedra’s extraordinary versatility in kathak and contemporary dance"

— The Stage

A dancer kneeling
A suitcase with a masked face sticking out
A suitcase with a leg and arm sticking out
A pile of cases with a pair of legs sticking out
A dancer wearing a mask