Thikra

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Chotto Desh

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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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Thikra

World Premiere: 25 January 2025, AlUla Arts Festival

Thikra: Night of Remembering is Akram Khan Company’s latest production created in collaboration with award-winning visual artist Manal AlDowayan. Thikra draws inspiration from A...

bahok

World Premiere: 25 January 2008, Tianqiao Theatre, Beijing

“For nomads, home is not an address, home is what they carry with them.” (John Berger, Hold everything dear. p. 129) After creating intimate duets with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (zer...

Akram Khan’s Giselle

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

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

Chotto Desh

Akram Khan’s DESH was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike when it was first presented in 2011. In 2014, Akram Khan Company and Theatre-Rites director Sue Buckmaster ...

Chotto Desh

We are delighted to present our much-loved family-friendly production of Chotto Desh. Adapted in 2015 by Theatre-Rites’ director Sue Buckmaster from Akram Khan’s Olivier Award-w...

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- 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...

"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...

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