Creature (2022)

When the creative contemporary choreographer Akram Khan turned his attention to Mary Shelley's sci-fi masterpiece Frankenstein, it was enough to arouse the screams and expectations of dance fans. This "creation" sets the background of the story in a dilapidated and abandoned polar research station, where human beings carry out physical experiments with "humanoid creatures" in order to satisfy their desire to colonize the last unoccupied land on earth. The appearance of the kind-hearted cleaner Mary brought love and hope to the creature, and their behavior out of control was suppressed by the officer, forcing the creature to a Woitzeck-style tragic ending. Akkham, a Bangladeshi choreographer, is one of the most influential choreographers in the world today. he has been trained in the South Asian classical dance system since childhood, and in extensive cooperation with famous dance troupes such as the British National Ballet, Ballet Boys and Cloud Gate Dance Company, it also absorbs the essence of western modern dance and ballet, the style is mixed, but it is very pure. His masterpiece "Giselle" and "Stranger" have won many awards such as Oliver Award, South Bank Sky Art Award and so on. In his new creation, he chooses to use dance movements full of tension to shape the imprisoned body and.