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World Première: 2-9 April 2022, Curve Leicester, UK Akram Khan’s Jungle Book Reimagined is Akram Khan Company’s brand-new work, based on the original story by Rudyard Kipling with an original score. With a new sense of urgency, Akram will reinterpret this lovingly known story from another perspective, through the lens of today’s children – those who will inherit our world and become our future storytellers. Embedded in the roots of Jungle Book is the deep threat that mankind poses towards nature. Akram and his team reimagine the journey of Mowgli through the eyes of a refugee caught in a world devastated by the impact of climate change. They will tell the story of how this child will help us to listen again, not to our voices but to the voices of the natural world that we, the modern world, try to silence. Jungle Book Reimagined will speak to all generations as a step to remind, to relearn, to reimagine a new world together A stellar crea
