When dancer Rianto was picked to succeed award-winning British dancer-choreographer Akram Khan in his work Until The Lions, nobody was more surprised than the Indonesian himself.
Rianto, who goes by one name, had just left the Esplanade Theatre in awe after seeing Khan's work, Torobaka, at the 2015 da:ns festival, when Khan's producer Farooq Chaudhry called him to break the news.
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