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Over the last twenty 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.
"I want to develop a sense of collective and thought-provoking mentorship where artists are given a chance to invest and investigate a much-needed creative and critical space wi...
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Darbar Festival 2019
Over the last three years, Akram and Mavin Khoo have co-curate a dance programme for Indian classical music festival, Darbar. For this year's curation, they both wanted to ce...
Vertical Road
Premiere: 16 September 2010, Curve Theatre, Leicester Last performance: 11 December 2012, La Piscine, Chatenay-Malabry In Vertical Road Khan has assembled a cast of very s...
Father: Vision of the Floating World
Both of Akram's parents were born and raised in Bangladesh. He grew up hearing stories of the Bangladesh Liberation War from his family, including his uncle who was a freedom fi...
World Première: 12 January 2016, Roundhouse, London
Last performance: 28 July 2019, Zoumbouleio Megaro, Kalamata
"As in many myths, the female characters are often...
World Première: 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...
"What does dance mean to you right now?"
- Akram Khan
"Twenty years on, it still feels like we're just beginning. It's exhilarating and beautiful to feel this way."
- Farooq Chaudhry