“I like taking risks. I love going into adventures,” Oscar winner Juliette Binoche observes. “Taking risks is part of being an artist.”
In 2007, the French actress embarked on one of the riskiest endeavors of her career, creating a modern dance piece called In-I with British dancer-choreographer Akram Khan that would take them on a world tour together. Before the project, Binoche had never trained as a dancer. It easily could have resulted in failure.
“How could I, an actress, find the strength and courage without a dancer’s body?” Binoche has written. “How to commit to a performance that left me breathless, believing I could make it through to the end without collapsing?”
Khan, too, faced enormous challenges: “Akram wanted to know about acting, wanted to act and open himself up,” Binoche tells Deadline. “And it’s very difficult.”
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