Events
Chotto Desh
Akram Khan Company is delighted to have brought back our much-loved family-friendly production of Chotto Desh. Adapted by Theatre-Rites’ director, Sue Buckmaster, in 2015 from Akram Khan’s Olivier Award-winning solo and critically acclaimed DESH, this heart-warming story follows a young man trying to find his place in the world.
9 - 10 February 2024, Southbank Centre,London, UK - 26 - 27 April 2024, DanceEast. Ipswich, UK - 5 - 6 March 2024, Alisher Navoi Theatre, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Jocelyn is creating the score for a new dance piece choreographed by Akram Khan, based on the original story by Rudyard Kipling. World Première: 2-9 April 2022, 2 - 3 February 2024, Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra ACT, Australia - 9 - 17 February 2024, Heath Ledger Theatre, Perth WA, Australia - 23 - 25 February 2024, St James Theatre Wellington, New Zealand - 6 - 9 March 2024, Esplanade, Singapore - 15 - 16 March 2024, Festival Theatre, Adelaide SA, Australia - 24 - 25 May 2024, Theatre Winterthur Winterthur, Switzerland - 6 - 7 July 2024, Forum Am Schlosspark, Ludwigsburg, Germany - 10 - 12 April 2024, Dailes Teatris, Riga, Latvia
Jungle Book Reimagined
To celebrate the release of the vinyl LP soundtrack of BLIGHT, John Smith joins Jocelyn Pook in conversation to launch a comprehensive two-month survey of his works. The artist filmmaker’s INTROSPECTIVE (50 films from 50 years) launches at ICA with a focus on SMITH’s music related works. 1st October 2022, ICA
Jocelyn Pook : John Smith, Blight launch Q&A
Jocelyn Pook is invited to create an immersive sound installation to an audio bench as part of Pier to Pier which is a public artwork exploring the 14 miles between Brighton Pier and Worthing Pier. RAPT interviewed 14 people who live or work on the coast and worked with a coastal choir to create an immersive sound installation played from an audio bench travelling the Sussex Coast. With Sound Design by Lewis Gibson. The sound installation will be open to public view between 10 May - 6 Jun 2021.
Pier to Pier at Brighton Festival
The London Climate Change Festival invited Jocelyn Pook for a performance with Akram Khan as part of their very special digital concert, SONG FOR NATURE, to raise awareness for climate change. The featured piece is “Hallelujah” which is a section from DESH, sang by Melanie Pappenheim, Jeremy Avis and a remarkable choir of children. The event was filmed in the beautiful London Coliseum and will feature dance, music and activism! It will be free for everyone to watch on Sky Arts on Earth Day, 22 April 2021 at 9.00pm.
The London Climate Change festival presents: Song for Nature
Eyes Wide Shut screening and discussion with Katharina Kubrick, Jocelyn Pook and Matt Wells
Please join us at the BFI Southbank for the screening of Kubricks final film, music by Jocelyn Pook. Followed by a discussion with Katharina Kubrick, Jocelyn Pook and Matt Wells.
Eyes wide shut is an incredible display of precision and suspense, featuring a fragile relationship played out by (then) real-life couple Kidman and Cruise. When Alice Harford admits to her husband Bill that she’s having sexual thoughts about another man, it sets off an obsession in him to have an erotic encounter – which leads him into an unforgiving world that he isn’t prepared for. Shot over a mammoth 15-month period, and based on Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Dream Story, Eyes Wide Shut explores the seductive and dangerous sexual underbelly of New York’s elite..
Kingmaker at BFI London Film Festival
Please join us at BFI London Film Festival screenings of Kingmaker. Music by Jocelyn Pook.
Having spent her years as the First Lady of the Philippines on a heady monopolistic rampage, buying up European jewellery shops and iconic New York skyscrapers, Imelda Marcos is looking for a way to regain control. Her former peers, including the widows of governmental figures, tell the story of a woman scarred by an emotional blow that transformed her into the bulletproof-bra-wearing megalomaniac, who now mythologises her mothering instincts. Female journalists and activists share their horrific experiences of torture under the martial law that the Marcoses initiated, as Imelda was busy displacing an entire island of people to have her own African zoo. This rare focus on the female experience in dictatorships explores the complexity of contemporary Philippine politics and the sinister future it faces.
Proms 2019: Jocelyn Pook at Proms 49: The Lost Words
Jocelyn Pook's new original musical work will be premiered at Prom number 49, featuring the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and performed by the Southbank Sinfonia. Pook's new piece sets words from speeaches by environmental activist Greta Thunberg to music. The concert celebrates the rich musical landscape of nature and is inspired by the bestselling book The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane which revives disappearing words describing the natural world. The concert will be accompanied by live painting by Jackie Morris.