The Place,London
A tall-tech exploration of Odedra’s own struggles with learning difficulty creates some hit-and-miss imagesAakash Odedra’s solo is called Murmur 2.0, and those digits in the title label it both as an upgrade (an earlier version was shown last year) and as a very techie production. For this is as much a staging of digital animation and computer effects (by Futurelab, or the research unit of Austrian organisation Ars Electronica,as a dance piece created by Odedra and fellow choreographer Lewis Major.
The core conception of the dance is Odedra’s own dyslexia which, he tells us, or meant that he was 21 before he even noticed that his forename started with two As. Yet he begins the piece not with words but with numbers,sitting upstage and counting the beats of Indian classical dance in which he trained. When a voiceover whispers stage directions to him, he stumbles over his own legs and flips himself over, and sometimes wincingly walking on his own toes – as whether his body,perhaps like his eyes, cannot obey these disembodied directives.
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Source: theguardian.com