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“I am disappointed,” said Londoner Akram Khan, who choreographed and
danced in the segment. “I am really sad that I couldn’t show the work in
America, and that really upsets me, because I don’t think it’s any more
or less than the other pieces. It brings to mind the question … that
maybe it’s too truthful.”

The ceremony’s program describes the performance as dramatizing “the
struggle between life and death using such powerful images of mortality
as dust and the setting sun.”

Some in the British press have interpreted the segment as being a
tribute to victims of bomb attacks in July 2005 that killed 52 commuters
and four suicide bombers on London’s transit network. During the BBC
live coverage of the ceremony, commentator Hazel Irvine made the
connection while the dance was taking place: “The excitement of that
moment in Singapore seven years ago when London won the games was
tempered with great sorrow the very next day, when the terror attacks
took place,” she said.