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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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Chotto Xenos

World Premiere: 21 February 2020, DanceEast, Ipswich

In 2019, Sue Buckmaster reimagined XENOS into a child-friendly production. Interweaving the themes from the piece, Chotto Xenos probes the necessary questions to younger audienc...

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...

Carnival of Shadows

As the Company turned 21, we marked the beginning of our third decade of storytelling. From 23 November – 4 December 2021 we presented Carnival of Shadows at Sadler’s Wells, a production curated as part of the programme reflected where, after two decades of learning and collaborating, we had arrived.

“Sadler’s Wells Theatre has been my dancing home for the last 16 years I hold our longstanding relationship with Alistair and the staff at Sadler’s with great ...

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...

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...

"Twenty years on, it still feels like we're just beginning. It's exhilarating and beautiful to feel this way."

- Farooq Chaudhry

Carnival of Shadows

"Sadler's Wells Theatre has been my dancing home for the last 16 years I hold our longstanding relationship with Alistair and the staff at Sadler's with great respect an...

"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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