dance - AKRAM KHAN

RUSH [ on video ]

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~ made up of a lot of sudden changes of speed – eruptions and bursts of movement

~ intricate movement structures – strongly punctuated with stillness

~ maintains a consistency of vocabulary – flourishing spiral hands and arms – mostly vertical in posture and standing

~ structurally triangular and diagonal

~ music keeps a tension, and sudden lighting changes and interjections keep the momentum pacey

~ sociokinetic – linear, no contact, but sameness of being (all dressed and move the same) – 2 men / 1 woman – but this bears no relevance to the theme – androgynous neutrality of movement and energy inclined towards the energetic and ejaculatory

~ strong clarity and linear definition of movement – when dancers slightly out of sync in unison moments, it doesn’t make it problematic

~ geometrical with organic twists and curves that resolve back to the linear or erect

~ designed within the space – it sits presentationally for viewing – it swims within the frame of its edges – other than when they enter at the start from out of frame (off stage)

~ moments of swaying suspension (the piece is about hang gliding)

~ flourishes and stillness’s

~ sinking, twisting, hand curving gestures, round upper body and head, animal postures elongated occasionally along ground with isolated actions of the joints a la Forsyth, long straight arms – spinning motif like a propeller – tilting forward motifs – emphasis on held lines and planes – horizontal, sloping, angled

~ at the start the dancers assemble and look at the performing space from audience’s edge, and then abruptly finish here at the end of the 1st section – reminding the audience of the start

~ piece finishes asymmetrically and inconclusively near downstage corner by the audience looking diagonally off stage over their heads – anti-dramatic contrast to dramatic closure of 1st section

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