Thikra

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Jungle Book reimagined

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Chotto Desh

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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.

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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...

Trespassing Humanity

“Confronted with a tragic second wave of the pandemic, the current challenges that India is facing are critical. Whilst media coverage focuses on urban cities, the outbreak that is now spreading through villages and marginalised communities means that numbers are undocumented.

“Confronted with a tragic second wave of the pandemic, the current challenges that India is facing are critical. Whilst media coverage focuses on urban cities, the outbreak that...

Chotto Desh

World Premiere: 23 October 2015, DanceEast, Ipswich

Akram Khan’s DESH was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike when it was first presented in 2011. In 2014, Akram Khan Company and Theatre-Rites director Sue Buckmaster ...

The Renovātiō Series

This is The Renovātiō Series, our digital programme as part of our Carnival of Shadows season. Taking its roots and meaning from latin: rebirth / renewal, The Renovātiō Series a...

iTMOi

  iTMOi (in the mind of igor) “In this work, I am interested in the dynamics of how Stravinsky transformed the classical world of music by evoking emotions through patterns...

"What does dance mean to you right now?"

- Akram Khan

The Renovātiō Series

Welcome to The Renovātiō Series, the digital programme as part of our Carnival of Shadows season. Taking its roots and meaning from latin: rebirth / renewal, The Renovātiō Seri...

"Ever since I entered the classical Indian dance world, I have been searching for a way out... or perhaps more truly, I was searching for a new way in."

- Akram Khan

Outwitting the Devil

World Premiere: 13-14 July 2019, Stuttgart   "I have awakened to a new way of dancing. And that is to dance my ideas through the bodies of others, including older dan...

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