Choreographer's new version, to be performed at Leicester's Curve in 2022, reinvents Kipling's Mowgli as a climate refugee At the age of 10, Akram Khan played Mowgli in an Indian dance version of The Jungle Book. Now, 37 years later, the choreographer has decided it's time to revisit Rudyard Kipling's famed, if problematic, tales. "I wanted to tackle The Jungle Book from my perspective, rather than Kipling's," says K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM on March 19, 2021