Rupert Christiansen

Time for Akram Khan to move on from climate-change choreography

Creature fails to convince but there is much to marvel at in his reimagination of the Jungle Book

As the Creature, Jeffrey Cirio radiated something of Nijinsky’s shamanic intensity as Petrushka
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    Sadler’s Wells

  • Jungle Book Reimagined

    Sadler’s Wells, until 15 April, and touring until 29 June

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