Juliette Binoche: "No more dance shows after 'In-I' tour"

Juliette Binoche: "No more dance shows after 'In-I' tour"

Juliette Binoche, the famous Oscar-winning French actress, said that making tour for her dance collaboration with Akram Khan, the Britain choreographer, was so exhausting that she is not willing enough to take part in a similar project once again.

Sources have thrown more light on the news of Juliette Binoche. On Tuesday during a press conference she said that working on the modern dance performance "In-I" was a great learning experience. However it was also physically taxing and she jokingly said that she thought about giving up "because it's so difficult" but couldn't since she signed a contract.

"I learned to bend. I learned to shut my mouth because as an actress I was commenting a lot about what I was feeling," added Binoche, who has won a best supporting actress Oscar for the 1996 romantic film titled "The English Patient."

When being asked if she would sign up for another dance project, this forty four year old actress shook her head quickly by saying "I don't think so."

She continued, "I'm really enjoying it," "I'm suffering."

Akram Khan, who has done choreography for Australian pop star Kylie Minogue and French ballerina Sylvie Guillem, added that  it was a refreshing experience working with Binoche since she had no formal dance training, likening her to a "blank canvass."

"When I'm working with, for example, a ballet dancer, then you start from a reference of ballet. You start with a vocabulary and sometimes the knowledge becomes a curse," added Akram.

"In-I," which had its world premiere at the National Theatre in London on Sept. 18, is making its Asian debut in Hong Kong on Wednesday as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival before moving on to other places like Seoul, Tokyo, and Shanghai.