in-i

Synopsis

If the Greeks had 14 words to describe different ways of loving, how many dare we experience? A major new work of dance theatre created by one of the world’s leading dancer/choreographers, Akram Khan, and actress Juliette Binoche. Throughout their careers, Binoche and Khan have both sought out surprising and daring collaborations. Akram Khan has always taken an inter-disciplinary approach to dance and his collaborators have included Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Antony Gormley and Nitin Sawhney (zero degrees), Sylvie Guillem (Sacred Monsters) and Hanif Kureishi. Similarly, Juliette Binoche has made artistically challenging choices with directors such as Michael Haneke (Hidden) and Louis Malle (David Hare’s screenplay Damage), and has starred in award-winning films including The English Patient and Chocolat. Creating the environment for the duet is Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor. in-i is a unique collaboration between three of today’s most exciting artists.

Our Review:

19 September 2008

Am I i? Am I in-i? Where is my I? Where was the shift key? By all means catch the ever luminous La Binoche in this intriguing piece but please, don’t ask questions.

With not only a film retrospective but an art exhibition at the BFI no-one can have missed that French Oscar winner Juliette Binoche is in town and has trained for 2 years to collaborate on this dance piece with innovative Brit Bangladeshi dancer and choreographer Akram Khan. Leave it there. Interviews and articles can only infuriate. Even without the credit crunch and a soggy Summer it would be hard to feel for Binoche’s terror, “It has to be brave … I have to overcome a lot of fears, being out of breath, of losing balance.” And then there is the title, don’t ask about the title. “It’s about questions. Do we dare?” “If we had to say one word we would choose the word ‘dare’.” And I, reading the reams of self-regarding Left Bank/cultural angst would choose one sentence, “How very dare t...

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Latest User Review

CAA - 3 October 2008:

I have seen some fantastic work in the past by Akram Khan so know how good he is. The only good thing to say then about in-i is that this was a missed chance. As dance it wasn't very interesting and the dancing is pretty poor and the story such as it is laughable. I'm also annoyed because this really was a wasted evening, how it got staged is beyongd me indeed the man outside the NT playing his guitar was so much more entertaining....

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