A Thousand Faces (play)

A Thousand Faces is a dance theatre piece by British dancer Amina Khayyam.

A Thousand Faces
Date premiered1 November 2014 (2014-11-01)
Original languageEnglish
Official site

Cast

  • Iris Chan: dancer
  • Lucy Teed: dancer
  • Amina Khayyam: dancer
  • Tarun Jasani: music

Summary

A Thousand Faces is a story of women who are discriminately attacked because of their gender, often caught up within cultural expectations.

Overview

A Thousand Faces explores what independence has meant for Bangladeshi women – and if 'freedom' is a notion that they can identify with using dance, costume[1] and puppetry.[2]

The dance piece that uses Kathak's intricate and detailed theatrical movements of abhinaya. The production aims to raise awareness of acid violence.[3][4]

Tour

A Thousand Faces premiered mac in Birmingham on 27 November 2015.[4]

Critical response

Whatsonstage.com called it "a bold dance piece".[3]

gollark: ++remind 33w finite state entropy
gollark: https://github.com/Cyan4973/FiniteStateEntropy
gollark: Or arithmetic coding if you don't care about performance.
gollark: I have no idea but it sounds very cool.
gollark: COOL™ compression algorithms use "finite state entropy" these days.

References

  1. "Akademi presents Amina Khayyam Dance Company". Rich Mix. March 2015. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  2. "Amina Khayyam Dance: A Thousand Faces". Live Brum. 27 November 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  3. "Amina Khayyam - A Thousand Faces". Whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  4. "Amina Khayyam: A Thousand Faces". Desi Xpress. 27 November 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.


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