Action in stillness: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and the Shaolin monks in Sutra at Sadler's Wells

By Katja Vaghi, 05 April 2013

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Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 3 April 2013

Sutra (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)

Ali Thabet, Dancer

Antony Gormley, Set Designer

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Katja Vaghi

With a background in Dance Studies, Literature and Linguistics (MA English Studies from Zurich University and PhD in dance philosophy from the University of Roehampton in London) and a formation as a modern dancer (Ballet Arts, NYC), Katja is a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance researcher and dramaturge currently living in Berlin.