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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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DESH

World Premiere: 15 September 2011, Curve Theatre, Leicester

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...

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...

Trespassing Humanity

“Confronted with a tragic second wave of the pandemic, the current challenges that India is facing are critical. Whilst media coverage focuses on urban cities, the outbreak that is now spreading through villages and marginalised communities means that numbers are undocumented.

“Confronted with a tragic second wave of the pandemic, the current challenges that India is facing are critical. Whilst media coverage focuses on urban cities, the outbreak that...

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...

"Ever since I entered the classical Indian dance world, I have been searching for a way out... or perhaps more truly, I was searching for a new way in."

- Akram Khan

Outwitting the Devil

World Premiere: 13-14 July 2019, Stuttgart   "I have awakened to a new way of dancing. And that is to dance my ideas through the bodies of others, including older dan...

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