MAN[or]GOD

Internationally acclaimed dance artist Mavin Khoo tells his own story as a queer South Asian man living in London. MAN[or]GOD is a coming together of dance, film and music to create an immersive journey that takes the audience into the unexplored territory between the devotion for dance, desire and the divine.

This new work is a collaboration between Khoo and some of Europe’s most exciting creatives. The full-length duet choreographed by Berlin-based Joy Alpuerto Ritter invites a restaged excerpt by celebrated dance artist Akram Khan.

Khoo shares the stage with contemporary ballet dancer Hector Ferrer, former dancer of Ballet du Rhin and Royal Ballet of Flanders. In addition, he has invited artist and music producer Gideon Berger, the co-founder and director of renowned collective Block9, to be the creative and music director. As an integral part of the dance and sound experience, a film created by French director Maxime Dos will be projected as another vibrant and significant dimension to the story. Ric Mountjoy completes the team of creatives as the lighting designer.

Staged within the darkness of a warehouse, this performative and experiential journey is a personal love note revealing the tensions that unfold through a relationship challenged by opposing ideas on Love and God. It evolves into a complex portrait and a diary of life that speaks openly and freely: at its heart, a diasporic South Asian queer experience in constant navigation with its Western surrounding.