Artiste: Aakash Odedra Company

Based around the Sufi myth of the bulbul, a bird said to sing more sweetly as it approaches death, Odedra's new work brings together North Indian Kathak dance, Sufi myth and Islamic poetry.

Five years after the composer's death, his musical collaborator David Murphy ensures that Shankar's only operatic work finally gets heard.

A double bill of variable quality, Aakash Odedra shines in Aditi Mangaldas’ new piece
Echoes, but struggles to find his choreographic foothold in I Imagine.