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choice of this as the basis for a ballet provides a flavour of his brilliant and
unconventional mind and it will no doubt be a great introduction to how the former
Royal Ballet director’s work came to shape basically everything we now know to be
true about ballet. RW

20 March – 13 April (roh.org.uk, 020 7304 4000)

Dance

Aakash Odedra Company/Aditi Mangaldas: Mehek

Two exemplarity Kathak dancers, Aakash Odedra and Aditi Mangaldas, team up for a
beautiful-sounding, boundary-crossing work about forbidden love, with an older
woman and younger man at its core. Partly inspired by true stories the team collected
from older people living in Leicester, Mehek – which will begin at Leicester’s Peepul
Centre before moving to Sadler’s Wells and then touring the UK – takes its name from
the Hindi word for fragrance and is a hymn to the power of memory and desire.
Mangaldas, born in 1960, is a doyenne of Indian dance who recently created a brilliant
solo show asking why cultures everywhere hate female desire. RW

Touring 4 – 19 April (aakashodedra.com; peepulenterprise.com, 0116 261 6000;
sadlerswells.com, 020 7863 8000)

Theatre

London Tide

National Theatre, London