Zero Degrees

• 1. Identity, belonging.
  2. Duality – a state of being in two parts
  3. Polar opposites – life vs death, control vs helplessness,
  4. Borders (emotional and physical), points of crossing, in between places
• Choreographed by: Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

  
  

  Premiered: July 2005, Sadlers wells, London

  
  

  Composer: Nitin Sawhney

  
  

  Lighting design: Mikki Kunttu

  
  

  Sculptor: Antony Gormley

  
  

  Costume designer: Kei Ito

  
  

  SECTIONS: 15 – Episodic structure

  
  

  STYLES: Contemporary, yoga, kathak, martial arts
• Passports Movement Analysis

  Dancers sit cross-legged, side by side, centre stage. Their hands are splayed in front of their chest as they make a sweeping downward gesture. This action enhances the narrative of explaining what the guards were wearing.
• Passports Movement RADS

  The two dancers sat cross-legged side by side and in unison, place their index fingers and thumbs into a diamond position whilst saying "it's amazing how much power a passport holds". They then thrust this gesture forward. That diamond represents a passport.
• Shadows and Sufis

  The two dancers stand equidistant downstage centre as their shadows overlap on the upstage gauze. Then gestures are overlayed onto the shadows. Labi turns.

  Themes: Identity and Boreders.
• Dummy Duality-

  Sidi reaches to the audience because he wants to be where they are and then aggressively stamps on Khan's dummy and Khan mirrors the dummy's action. Larbi and Marka are centre stage and Akram is centre stage left.