‘Torobaka’ is an innovative show currently touring Europe featuring a unique combination of flamenco and the Indian classical dance form Kathak. <br /><br /> A joint project between celebrated British dancer Akram Khan and award-winning Spanish flamenco dancer Israel Galván, Torobaka is currently on at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens. <br /><br /> “It’s an open play. It doesn’t have any script, it’s like a concert. Personally, I see it like a dialogue. In the end it’s like two dancers whose best conversation is through dance,” Israel Galván told euronews.<br /><br /> A combination of the words ‘toro’, the bull, and ‘vaca’, the cow, the sacred animals in the two dancers’ traditions, ‘Torobaka’ is a true celebration of dialogue between cultures. <br /><br /> Rather than mimicking one another, the pair seek to create something new by better understanding each other’s approach to their craft.<br /><br /> “Flamenco and Kathak have connections to each other. You have all the recitation, the kind of vocalisation, the rhythmical elemen
