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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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.

Darbar Festival 2019

From 2017-2019, Akram and Mavin Khoo have co-curated a dance programme for Indian classical music festival, Darbar.
For the 2019 creation, they both wanted to centre programming artists and events that would give audiences the opportunity to

Creature

Creature is an unearthly tale of exploitation and human frontiers inspired by Georg Büchner’s expressionist classic Woyzeck, with shadows of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Drawing on themes of abandonment, isolat

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...

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...

"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...

"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   ...

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

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