Xenos review – unequalled fragility

Sadler’s Wells, London
Khan’s final solo performance, as an Indian ex-soldier reliving the horror of the trenches, is a dazzling test of enduranceIn Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus stole fire and gave it to mankind, enabling human progress and civilisation. For this the gods punished him. He was shackled to a rock where, every day, an eagle tore out his liver, which then grew back overnight. Around this grim allegory Akram Khan has fashioned a profoundly moving new work, Xenos.