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Dancing the Archive Brown, Dancing the Archive Other in Akram Khan’s XENOS (2018)

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Image 1. Akram Khan stares into the gramophone that starts to list names of Indian colonial soldiers in WW1. In XENOS by Akram Khan Company at Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, February 2018. Photo: Jean-Louis Fernandez.

Image 1. Akram Khan stares into the gramophone that starts to list names of Indian colonial soldiers in WW1. In XENOS by Akram Khan Company at Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, February 2018. Photo: Jean-Louis Fernandez.

Image 2. Akram Khan lays down the wires to bring the gramophone to life. In XENOS by Akram Khan Company at Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, February 2018. Photo: Jean-Louis Fernandez.

Image 2. Akram Khan lays down the wires to bring the gramophone to life. In XENOS by Akram Khan Company at Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, February 2018. Photo: Jean-Louis Fernandez.

Image 3. Akram Khan piles on the wires over his head to obscure his identity and represent the million plus Indian colonial soldiers in WW1. In XENOS by Akram Khan Company at Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, February 2018. Photo: Jean-Louis Fernandez.

Image 3. Akram Khan piles on the wires over his head to obscure his identity and represent the million plus Indian colonial soldiers in WW1. In XENOS by Akram Khan Company at Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, February 2018. Photo: Jean-Louis Fernandez.

Image 4. Akram Khan is showered on by an avalanche of pine cones in the final scenes. In XENOS by Akram Khan Company at The Grange Festival, Hampshire, December 2017. Photo: Jean-Louis Fernandez.

Image 4. Akram Khan is showered on by an avalanche of pine cones in the final scenes. In XENOS by Akram Khan Company at The Grange Festival, Hampshire, December 2017. Photo: Jean-Louis Fernandez.