Akram Khan: The Mathematics of Sensation — the Body as Site/Sight/Cite and Source

Abstract

Akram Khan: I feel the body is like a museum but an evolving museum so it’s constantly mutating. It’s a museum because it carries history. It carries generations and generations of information, cultural, educational, religious, political and so on. Then with each generation the body transforms, takes that information and responds to the environment that we live in. For me, everything that you expose to it, particularly as a child, is crucial. That is where the source of most of the interesting material lies, not in the grown up stage. It’s really going back to the child body that I’m fascinated by, where the creativity lies. Most of the things that happen to you as a child, the body then shapes it up to deal with in the present.