From AlUla to Sadler’s Wells: Inside Akram Khan and Manal AlDowayan’s ‘Thikra’
“It is in this shared space of remembering that healing grows and we reconnect to something larger than ourselves,” Akram Khan tells me, discussing his latest work, Thikra, made in collaboration with Saudi artist Manal AlDowayan – who represented her country at the Venice Biennale last year. Born out of the vast expanse of AlUla’s…