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Over the last 25 years, Akram Khan Company has established itself as one of the foremost innovative dance companies in the world. Embracing an artistic vision that both respects and challenges Indian kathak form and contemporary dance.

World Premiere: 21 February 2020, DanceEast, Ipswich
In 2019, Sue Buckmaster reimagined XENOS into a child-friendly production. Interweaving the themes from the piece, Chotto Xenos probes the necessary questions to younger audienc...
World Premiere: 13 July 2019, COLOURS International Dance Festival, Stuttgart
“I have awakened to a new way of dancing. And that is to dance my ideas through the bodies of others, including older dancers, who carry their histories and complex emotio...
World Premiere: 25 January 2008, Tianqiao Theatre, Beijing
“For nomads, home is not an address, home is what they carry with them.” (John Berger, Hold everything dear. p. 129) After creating intimate duets with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (zer...For enquiries related to Akram’s independent commissions, please contact natalie@akramkhanproductions.com.
Akram Independent Commissions