XENOS

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Jungle Book reimagined

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Chotto Desh

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Over the last 22 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.

Seeking Satori Documentary

In one month, Akram will return to India to present XENOS for the final time. To celebrate, we share the first of our series of documentaries that celebrates out relationship to...

XENOS Creative Process Documentary

Ahead of Akram's final performances of XENOS, we reflect on our documentary created by Maxime Dos from the production's creation, right up until the first performance in Athens.

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World Premiere: 14 May 2013, MC2: Grenoble

Breathless Puppets

Breathless Puppets is an intimate short film co-created by Akram and Naaman Azhari. The story we witness is captured by delicate rotoscope animation and is part of a series of films produced as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Postcards from Now.

Akram Khan’s Giselle

The iconic ballet, reimagined.
In this acclaimed version by Akram, the greatest Romantic ballet and its story of love, betrayal and redemption are reimagined.

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...

XENOS

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

"Chotto Desh will inspire children to think about their own stories and perhaps make their own autobiographical art full of truth and beauty."

- Sue Buckmaster

Chotto Desh

World Premiere: 23 October 2015, DanceEast, Ipswich, UK London Premiere: 30 October 2015, Sadler’s Wells, London Last performance: 24 November 2018, Fei and Milton Wong Experi...

"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...

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For enquiries related to KARAS, Akram’s independent commissions, please contact natalie@karasproductions.com.

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