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“If we had to say in one word what we wish for our creation "In-I", we would choose the word "dare". If we could add one more, we would definitely choose: "the new". Daring the new is why we said yes to each other. Through moving and acting we'll explore and share our differences and similarities. But can we reach each other? Can we try and get close? Conflicts, fear, needs and hopes can be walls that we have to face. However, in between two people, there's a third, the space in between the two, and it is in the search for the third that we discover who we really are. If the Greeks had 14 words to describe different ways of loving, how many dare we experience?” — Juliette Binoche & Akram Khan, May 2008 The year 2009 will start off in style with the Montreal appearance of internationally acclaimed actress Juliette Binoche, in a creative collaboration with renowned British choreographer and dancer Akram Khan. It that weren’t enough, the set designer is Anish Kapoor, one of the world’s most sought-after visual artists. The world premiere of In-I will be held at the National Theatre in London in September 2008, followed by a tour of the world’s major cultural centres. Danse Danse is delighted to be able to present the fruits of this stellar, three-fold collaboration—without a doubt, the most eagerly awaited show of the season!
With great joy, the star of Blue (Kieslowski), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kaufman) and Chocolat (Hallström) renews her ties to the stage alongside Akram Khan, who gave us a superb production of ma in the spring of 2006. In this scintillating production, Binoche and Khan combine their respective worlds as co-creators and co-directors. As part of the creative preparations, Juliette Binoche is training in dance, while Akram Khan is honing his dramatic skills. This unique partnership is a reflection of current aesthetic sensibilities, wherein genres are combined to create new, bold and inspirational works. Juliette Binoche French actress Juliette Binoche began her career in theatre, performing in works by Molière, Ionesko, Chekhov and Pirandello among others. In 1983 she turned to film, working with such directors as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Doillon. In 1985 André Téchiné’s film Rendez-vous established her as one of the most promising actresses of her generation. She won the Romy-Schneider Prize for outstanding actress of the year in 1986. Two years later she starred in the award-winning The Unbearable Lightness of Being, her first English-language film and the first of several to be produced outside of France. Shortly after, she became the muse of director Léos Carax, the enfant terrible of auteur cinema, for whom she made two films: Mauvais Sang (1986; Bad Blood) and Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991; Lovers on the Pont-Neuf), an ambitious and exhilarating work that would occupy her for three years. After two films in English (Damage, Wuthering Heights), Kieslowski’s Blue (1993) marked a new stage in her career. Her nuanced performance earned her a César in Paris and a Best Actress Award in Venice. As the devoted French-Canadian nurse in in Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient, she won an Oscar Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1997 and a Silver Bear in Berlin. At age 37, following in the footsteps of Simone Signoret, she became only the second Frenchwoman to win an Academy Award. In search of strong characters and adventurous settings, she then appeared in numerous period films, including Le Hussard sur le toit (1995; The Horseman on the Roof,), Chocolat (2000) and La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (2000; The Widow of St. Pierre). Equally convincing as George Sand (Les Enfants du siècle, 1999) or a cheeky beautician (Décalage horaire, 2002), Juliette Binoche has never abandoned auteur films: after another collaboration with Téchiné (Alice et Martin, 1998), she starred in thought-provoking works by Michael Haneke—Code inconnu (2000) and Caché (2005)—and Abel Ferrara (Mary, 2005). Inquisitive and passionate, she has chosen scripts dealing with hard-hitting political issues: the crimes of apartheid (In My Country (Country of My Skul), 2003); the fate of refugees (Breaking and Entering, 2006); the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Désengagement, 2007). While starring in two very French films in 2008—Cédric Klapisch’s Paris and Olivier Assayas’ L’Heure d’été—and a typically American comedy (Dan in Real Life) the previous year, she continues to work with some of the masters of international cinema, including Hou Hsiao Hsien (Le Ballon Rouge, 2007) and Abbas Kirostami (Copie conforme, 2007). She recently played the part of an avenging mother in Another Kind of Silence (2008) by Santiago Amigorena, for whom she had earlier made Quelques jours en septembre (2006).
Associated with Sadler’s Wells in London, Akram Khan is the most acclaimed choreographer of his generation working in Britain today. His dance is both high-powered and spectacular, a fusion of classical kathak and contemporary Western dance. His hybrid style fires the imagination and captures the spirit of the time. Refusing all labels, Khan has collaborated with numerous artists from diverse disciplines, including composer Steve Reich, sculptor Antony Gormley, ballerina Sylvie Guillem, dancer-choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, singer Kylie Minogue and, in the near future, Juliette Binoche. Born in London in 1974 to Bengali parents, Akram Khan began dancing in the kathak tradition at the age of seven. He also appeared on stage at an early age, notably in the role of Ekalavya in Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata, which toured from 1987 to 1989. He went on to study contemporary dance at De Montfort University in Leicester and the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. After graduating, he worked with Jonathan Burrows and won a coveted place on the X-Group project organized by P.A.R.T.S., Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s school in Brussels. After creating primarily solo choreographies for five years, he formed his own company in 2000: the Akram Khan Company. The troupe’s first production, Rush, met with great acclaim, as did its next two works, Kaash and [ma], the latter receiving a South Bank Award and presented on the Danse Danse program in 2006. These last two works earned him a strong international following, leading to world tours. In 2005, the duet zero degrees, choreographed and performed with Flemish dancer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, was also an international triumph, winning the Australian Helpmann Award in 2007 for Best Choreography. In 2006, at the request of dancer Sylvie Guillem, he created Sacred Monsters, a duet he performed with her on a world tour. That same year, he was invited by Kylie Minogue to choreograph a section of her new Showgirl tour. In 2007 he created Lost Shadows in collaboration with Lin Hwai-Min for the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taiwan. Most recently, Akram premiered bahok, a collaboration between Akram Khan Company and the National Ballet of China, in Beijing in January 2008.
Born in Bombay in 1954, sculptor Anish Kapoor has lived in England since 1972. Over the last two decades, he has exhibited widely in London and abroad. A recipient of the Turner Prize in 1991 and the Premio Duemila at the Venice Biennale in 1992, Kapoor received an Honorary Fellowship from the London Institute in 1997 and was named a Commander of the British Empire in 2003. His works are represented in the collections of the world’s finest museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Prada Foundation in Milan, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the De Pont Foundation in Holland, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. His monumental sculptures, which grace the world’s major cultural centres, include Taratantara (1999), a 35 metre-high piece installed in the Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead, England, and Marsyas (2002), a large work of steel and PVC installed in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London. A stone arch by Kapoor is permanently placed at the shore of a lake in Lodingen in northern Norway. In 2000, one of Kapoor's works, Parabolic Waters, consisting of rapidly rotating coloured water, was shown outside the Millennium Dome in London. In 2001, Sky Mirror, a large mirror piece that reflects the sky and surroundings, was commissioned in Nottingham. In 2004, Cloud Gate, a 110-ton stainless steel sculpture, was unveiled at Millennium Park in Chicago. In the fall of 2006, another large mirror sculpture, also entitled Sky Mirror, was shown at the Rockefeller Center in New York. Soon to be completed are a memorial to the British victims of 9/11 in New York, and the design and construction of a subway station in Naples. Kapoor's pioneering work increasingly blurs the boundaries between architecture and art. Philip Sheppard Philip Sheppard is a composer, virtuoso cellist and a pioneer of the electric cello. He is a professor at The Royal Academy of Music and has composed extensively for film, television and theatre and is a prolific recording artist. Duration: to be determinate Credits Directed and performed by: Co-producers: Suported by: Global tour sponsored by: Juliette Binoche's make-up by Lancôme International, hair by l’Oréal Photos (in rehearsal): Marianne Rosenstiehl . Dancers Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche March 2008
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