'I'm Struggling With The Biggest Element: My Age! I'm Fighting Time' - Akram Khan Dances His Last Full-Length Solo

To accompany this photo journal, the dancer-choreographer writes about Xenos, about an Indian colonial soldier fighting for Britain in World War I. "In my work, I need a character I can relate to - but also a character who can relate to me. So we decided that this colonial soldier was a dancer who is thrown into the trenches somewhere in Europe. Most of the piece takes place in a trench, at least in an abstract sense."

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