Zero Degrees Akram Khan (2005)
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- Created on: 28-04-19 11:39
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- Zero Degrees
- Akram Khan (2005)
- Section 1 - Storytelling
- Setting: white vertical line down the centre of the stage and two dummies lying down on either side of the stage
- Theme of tension.
- Feel the tension from the people wo were congregated on the bus
- Tension in situation were Khan doesn't know where his passport is
- Power of the guards
- "And what I remember is there are these guards there who look very, very powerful"
- Not stereotypical guards in uniform, they are dressed in shirts and trousers. Cultural difference
- Expression on their face that made them seem powerful
- Power in the guards eyes, guards feeling superior. Almost threatening by the consequences of upsetting the guards
- Passengers were made to feel unimportant
- Power of the passport
- Without passport he has no proof of identity
- Such a small item materialistically, but holds so much power in the eyes of humans
- Feels vulnerable without his passport
- Fear of loosing his passport completely, kept tracking where it was because it was red
- "Its amazing how much power a passport holds" "It holds everything within a piece of paper"
- 'Zero Degrees' - middle ground of polar opposites, in between.
- Section 2 - Arms as one
- Join at the centre of the white line to form one shadow, joining together to become one
- A large use of contact.
- Traditional music used
- Dark lighting
- First time that they break the boundary of the vertical line
- Repetition and reordering of movements.
- Polar opposites
- Theme of searching for identity
- Confrontation
- Section begins in silence
- Section 3 - Sufi and Shadows
- Lighting and music changes
- Use of shadows
- Minimal set enhanced by shadows
- Fast continual movements
- Confrontation, inner conflict and being torn
- Fast spins
- Section 4 - Action and reaction
- Action reaction movements
- Moves like a basketball, control
- Support of khan - lost
- Larbi meets Ibral for the first time
- Larbi = Ibral and Akram = Marka (name of dummies).
- First interactions with the dummies
- Heartbeat - life and death
- Larbi's solo
- Section 5 -Larbi's solo
- Gestural and contact movements with dummy - Larbi and Ibral
- Humoural moments
- Silence
- Child like movements
- Jumps on dummy and falls over
- Communication
- Make their own kathak music using spoken word
- Introduction of instruments
- Conflict
- Martial arts
- Movement correlates to music
- Tiredness
- Repetition
- Section 6 - Larbi and Ibral
- Importance of line
- Resume storytelling
- Conversation like, less unison
- Small moments of usison
- Use of gestures
- Larbi takes on Khan's story
- Khan imitating Larbi
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