Thikra

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Jungle Book reimagined

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Chotto Desh

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Over the last 24 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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Vertical Road (Reimagined) – Boston Ballet

Vertical Road (Reimagined) as part of Boston Ballet’s Fall Experience 2023 – the first American company to perform the piece.

Vertical Road explores humanity’s earthly nature, rituals, and the consequences of our actions. This mesmerising work becomes a meditation on the journey from gravity to grace. ...

Until the Lions

World Premiere: 12 January 2016, Roundhouse, London

“As in many myths, the female characters are often the unsung heroes, the figures of strength and imagination and endurance. It is their unsung stories in particular that ...

Vertical Road

World Premiere: 16 September 2010, Curve, Leicester

In Vertical Road, Akram assembled a cast of very special performers from across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. With a specially commissioned score by long-term collaborator c...

Until the Lions

“As in many myths, the female characters are often the unsung heroes, the figures of strength and imagination and endurance. It is their unsung stories in particular that ...

Kaash (Revival)

(Revival of the 2002 full-length work) Akram Khan teamed up with the celebrated talents of Anish Kapoor and Nitin Sawhney to present his company’s first full-length evening work...

"Whose war? Whose fire? Whose hand is this?"

- Jordan Tannahill

XENOS

World Premiere: 21 February 2018, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens   ‘Whose war? Whose fire? Whose hand is this?’ Xenos by Jordan Tannahill   ...

"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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