‘Extreme Combat: The Dancer and The Fighter’: An Akram Khan film

November 13, 2020.
Available to watch on All4.Extreme Combat: The Dancer and The Fighter documents Akram Khan’s foray into a field that dancers rarely venture — fighting. Sure, we may include aggression or animalism in our choreography, as Khan often does. But despite the intensity, and arguable brutality of our art form, how often do we intentionally inflict pain on someone other than ourselves?Akram Khan’s ‘Extreme Combat: The Dancer and The Fighter’.Khan fac