Devi is a 50 minute dance duet performed by Anglo-Malaysian choreographer and dancer Mavin Khoo and dancer Ann De Vos and is a celebration of the female form. In Hinduism, the Goddess Absolute is personified as Devi, the counter balance of the male principle. The work explores six parts of the female physique (hair, breast, waist,  womb, hips and feet) as its choreographic stimulus to a series of virtuoso duets and solos.   Using text from the ancient Hindu work Soundarya Lahari and poetry from Islamic Sufi compositions, Mavin Khoo and Laurent Cavanna jointly choreograph to a time line provided by musical composer Jennifer McConnaught. Mavin Khoo is certainly one of the most important virtuosos and male soloists of Bharatanatyam and Odissi – a genre in which he has garnered prestigious awards in India, such as the Krishna Gana Sabha – but through his classical ballet studies in London and the Merce Cunningham technique in New York he has expanded his vocabulary of the body, creating performances in which the hybridisation of genres has become an original and unmistakable feature.
Devi is shown for the first time in Italy, at the Biennale Dance of Venice.
Mavin Khoo will also lead one of the workshops scheduled inside the Biennale Dance. The title of this workshop is "Giselle in India, from Bharata Natyam to disco-dance".

Date:

Performances:
18 June 2006 (h. 20:00)
19 June 2006 (h. 22:00)

Workshop:
19 - 24 June 2006

Venue:    Venice

Performances:
Tese delle Vergini

Workshop:
Centro Produzioni  Točnadanza - Sacca Fisola (Venice)

Information:

Performances and Workshop: tel. 041 5218775