"I think I saw Akram first at the Bhavan Centre in London when he was about 16. He moved like lightning. His speed was incredible but his precision as well was really inspiring to watch. He approached me in the late 90s to work on a project called Fix and then I continued to work with him on many, many other projects."
"We were sitting there pissed off about everything and grunting at each other, and he said that for the music he wanted just a constant banging for the first five to 10 minutes. I said, I'll get ripped to shreds if I do that! He said, that's what I want. But then we started to talk it through and think, well, how could we make that work?"
Nitin Sawhney first saw Akram Khan at the Bhavan Centre in London when Khan was about 16, noting extraordinary speed and precision. Sawhney and Khan began collaborating in the late 1990s on projects such as Fix and continued on major works including Kaash (2002), Zero Degrees (2005) and Vertical Road (2010). A member of Sawhney's band married Khan's sister, and Sawhney performed with Khan in Confluence (2009). Khan once performed on crutches in Holland yet delivered a brilliant show. The Vertical Road process involved intense late-night negotiation over a raw percussion idea that became an exhilarating creative outcome. Khan blends humour with movement that seeks to express the struggle for humanity's meaning.
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