![]() Akram Khan Company: i. TMOi – review . Yet while i. TMOi (which stands for In the Mind of Igor) is inspired by the life and work of the Russian composer, what we see on stage often seems to have issued straight from the mind of Khan. It's his own angels and demons in play, his own experience of the hurtling, dangerous forces that generate art. Stravinsky's religious faith and the dark allure of sacrifice are transposed by Khan to the figure of a trance preacher, whose rasping, gabbling exhortations relay the story of Abraham, called on by God to kill his son. He seems a servant of hell rather than heaven, and he's joined by equally threatening figures: a remote queen in a fantastical headdress; a young girl, half- innocent, half- sexualised, and a horned beast who lopes with a liquid, insinuating grace around the stage. For one long section, the queen presides over a set of neatly ordered folkloric dances: yet a thudding, convulsive violence repeatedly breaks through the dancers' bodies. The music (composed by Nitin Sawhney, Ben Frost and Jocelyn Pook) orchestrates equally brutal juxtapositions, with sweet melodies overwhelmed by dread- inducing cacophonies of sound. When the girl finally embarks on her ritual dance that will culminate in death, the artist- creature who's born from her efforts is a cringing Caliban figure, tormented and flayed. As metaphors, these images rarely cohere, yet they jolt and assault us as viscerally as The Rite of Spring did its original audience. And while i. TMOi is a far from perfect work, fractured and oddly paced, it is through Khan's shockingly imagined chaos that we're drawn into the creative maelstrom from which art is born.? Tell us about it on Twitter using #Gdn. ![]() ![]() Akram Khan Company iTMOi (in. Akram Khan's dark reimagining of Stravinsky's ballet has. Akram Khan's iTMOi reinvents Stravinsky's. Khan's first knowledge of any dance came at three. One of the most original and celebrated choreographers of international dance. Get an insight into the creative process of Akram Khan's production iTMOi. ![]() ![]() ![]() Akram Khan Company. ITMOi, May 28, andDesh, June 11. Photo by JLouis Fernandez, Courtesy Akram Khan Akram Khan has a talent for. The 11 dancers adopted one inexplicable. ITMOi by Akram Khan at Sadler's Wells has. Akram Khan's iTMOi, Sadler's Wells, review. The Royal Academy of Dance appears to have cracked the age. Akram Khan: Crafting a Narrative of Dance. DESH and iTMOi (in the mind of Igor), underscore Khan. As a Kathak-trained dancer, Akram Khan is no. Akram Khan Company: iTMOi. Akram Khan's iTMOi, based on Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. ![]()
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