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...

Gnosis

World Premiere: 26 April 2010, Sadler’s Wells, London

Gnosis is a work by Akram Khan in which he combines his classical Indian and contemporary dance roots. It begins with Khan revisiting the classical motifs of two earlier solos, ...

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

Creature is an unearthly tale of exploitation and human frontiers inspired by Georg Büchner’s expressionist classicWoyzeck, with shadows of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Drawing ...

XENOS

‘Whose war? Whose fire? Whose hand is this?’ Xenos by Jordan Tannahill Akram’s most anticipated solo, XENOS, marks his final performances as a dancer in a full-lengt...

DESH

DESH is a full-length contemporary solo and the most personal work of Akram’s. DESH meaning ‘homeland’ in Bengali, draws multiple tales of land, nation, resist...

"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   ...

"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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