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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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Svapnagata Festival

Spvapnagata, or ‘dreaming’ in Sanskrit, was a unique collaboration between multi award-winning artists Nitin Sawhney and Akram Khan to curate a two week Indian music and Dance Festival at Sadlers Wells. The initial idea for the Svapanagata festival came out of a conversation between Nitin,

Spvapnagata, or ‘dreaming’ in Sanskrit, was a unique collaboration between multi award-winning artists Nitin Sawhney and Akram Khan to curate a two week Indian music...

Outwitting the Devil

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...

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.

Breathless Puppets is an intimate short film co-created by Akram and Naaman Azhari. The story is captured by delicate rotoscope animation and is part of a series of films produc...

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 ...

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...

"Our future peace processes rely on us inspiring a younger generation"

- Sue Buckmaster

Chotto Xenos

World Première: 21 February 2020, DanceEast, Ipswich, UK. We've teamed up with director Sue Buckmaster to reimagine XENOS into a child-friendly production. Interweavi...

"Twenty years on, it still feels like we're just beginning. It's exhilarating and beautiful to feel this way."

- Farooq Chaudhry

Carnival of Shadows

"Sadler's Wells Theatre has been my dancing home for the last 16 years I hold our longstanding relationship with Alistair and the staff at Sadler's with great respect an...

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