Juliette Binoche/Akram Khan/Anish Kapoor

IN-I

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5, 6, 7, 8 November, h. 20.30

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Would you have ever dreamed of seeing Juliette Binoche dance with one of the most original and famous choreographers of the contemporary scene? Or imagined the choreographer and dancer Akram Khan take up a guitar and sing on stage?
Well if you haven’t, here’s In-I, a risky encounter between two strong and outstanding personalities such as Khan and Binoche, who team up to produce a show involving dance, music, singing and acting - a show laden with a conspicuous dose of unpredictability. A show where the protagonists put themselves at risk as both individuals and artists.
A world famous actress, with such box offices successes as The English Patient -for which she received an Academy Award, i.e. an Oscar - or critically acclaimed films such as Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy or Les amants du Pont-Neuf, Binoche has decided to take a break from cinema to dedicate herself to theatre. And there’s more to it, for besides acting, which is her profession, she has taken the decision to dance, training hard and performing with a highly original choreographer such as Khan.
Born in London from Bangladeshi stock, Khan has turned his double east-west roots into the distinctive traits of his personality, cultivating since childhood kathak, a highly stylised classical northern Indian dance, and successively focusing on the modern expressions of contemporary dance, developing in the process a personal language that is the merger of these two cultures. He works with his company, with important collaborations with big theatres -recently Bahok with the Chinese National Ballet - and with other dancers.
But what is involved here is not simply the invention of a choreography, dancing or sustaining acting parts as is his wont: Khan has decided to play the guitar, an instrument he has had a strong interest in for a long time, and to sing.
With In-I - which relies on the settings created by Anish Kapoor - Khan concludes a trilogy of collaborations with artists coming from different backgrounds, which had started in 2005 with Zero Degrees alongside Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and had been followed the following year with Sacred Monster alongside Silvye Guillem.

Born in London into a family of Bangladeshi origin in 1974, he began dancing at the age of seven. Akram Khan is now one of the  leading British dancers and choreographers, acclaimed for the vitality he brings to cross-cultural expression, influenced by his training in Western contemporary dance and Kathak, the Indian classical genre.
Juliette Binoche well known worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The English Patient (1996) and Chocolat (2000) as well as internationally successful arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue (1993) and Caché (2005), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1997 for The English Patient.
Anish Kapoor is a Turner Prize winning sculptor. Kapoor was born in Bombay, India, and attended the Doon School, located in Dehra Dun, India. He moved to England in 1972, where he has lived since. He studied art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art Design. In the early 1980s, Kapoor emerged as one of a number of British sculptors working in a new style and gaining international recognition for their work. Kapoor works in London, although he frequently visits India and has acknowledged that his art is inspired by both Western and Eastern cultures.