Lord of the dance; His work is steeped in the traditions of Kathak, a 500-year-old Indian dance, but his attitude is pure 21st Century. Weaving folklore, politics, philosophy, music and movement, choreographer Akram Khan has created Ma, a show of physical, intelligent dance

From: The Sunday Herald | Date: July 25, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

As a child on visits to his grandmother's home in Bangladesh, Akram Khan used to climb up a tree in the courtyard and hang from a branch upside-down, thoughts dripping out of his head on to the ground below. His nine-year-old mind was whirling with questions and ideas. Sometimes he would climb down and press his ear to the soil. If he listened hard enough, he imagined, the earth might answer his questions. It would speak back to him. "Of course, it never did," he says now, sitting in a hotel in Copenhagen. "On stage I say that it did, but it never actually did."

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