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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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Classical Intensive 2022

November/ December of 2022 marked the second AKC Classical Intensive, this time, in partnership with Sāraswatham Foundation & EnArt Consulting, in the South Indian city of Kumbakonam. This

Seeking Satori was the Company’s second Classical Intensive, this time, created in partnership with our friends at Sāraswatham Foundation & EnArt Consulting. What came...

Classical Intensive 2024

The 2024 programme saw our Creative Associate Mavin Khoo guide the 32 invited participants through an inspiring and rigorous creative journey. Enhancing their practice was live music from Jaffna-based Carnatic vocalist Jude Sivanganasundaram and mridangam artist Lohendran Mahendran, rooting the experience in the region’s musical traditions.

The third edition of our Classical Intensive programme was presented in collaboration with our friends at the British Council in Sri Lanka. Since its inception in 2019, the AKC ...

KADAMATI

Created in collaboration with 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary, Edinburgh International Festival, Théâtre du Châtelet and Théâtre de la Ville, K

“The idea of having mass bodies performing in a ritualistic way, in different locations, reflects a beautiful part of where we have evolved to today.” – Akram Created in c...

The Renovātiō Series

This is The Renovātiō Series, our digital programme as part of our Carnival of Shadows season. Taking its roots and meaning from latin: rebirth / renewal, The Renovātiō Series a...

Outwitting the Devil

“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...

"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...

"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...

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