Akram Khan
Creature review – Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan join up for intriguing dance film
Khan’s creation for English National Ballet is filmed by Kapadia, and has an ambiguous intensity that should interest audiences beyond dance fans
Peter Bradshaw
22, Feb, 2023 @7:00 AM
‘Nature will punish you’: Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan on their climate crisis dance film
The director of Amy, who’s never watched a ballet, has adapted a dystopian sci-fi piece by the choreographer, who’s never made a film. They discuss art, myths, and why Bruce Lee connects them as much as their south Asian roots
Tanjil Rashid
18, Feb, 2023 @11:55 AM
‘Don’t worry, just watch’: how do you tell a story through dance?
Even the best-known ballets can baffle newcomers so what can choreographers do to avoid audiences getting lost? From Matthew Bourne’s fairytales to staging Margaret Atwood and Peaky Blinders, we find out
Lyndsey Winship
06, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM
Akram Khan’s Jungle Book Reimagined review – a bleak post-apocalyptic vision
A grim, sporadically great show sees Mowgli saved by animals who have taken over idle land in the wake of climate disaster
Lyndsey Winship
08, Apr, 2022 @3:00 PM
Outwitting the Devil review – Akram Khan’s dancers defy all limits
The plot of this reworked Gilgamesh myth may be near-impossible to follow – but its dazzling performers are hard to resist
Lyndsey Winship
25, Nov, 2021 @12:14 PM
Creature review – Akram Khan struggles with the weight of the world
Jeffrey Cirio and Erina Takahashi dazzle for a sharp ENB, but this long-awaited new work is all message, no story
Sarah Crompton
02, Oct, 2021 @11:00 AM
Creature review – Akram Khan’s anticlimactic apocalypse
Starring the superb Jeffrey Cirio, Khan’s third work for ENB is full of urgent ideas. But you can’t tell what they are without reading the programme
Lyndsey Winship
24, Sep, 2021 @2:22 PM
Ballerina Erina Takahashi: ‘I didn’t think I would have this challenge at this age’
ENB’s lead principal has seen ballet grow better, bolder and kinder over 25 years. Now she is taking on Akram Khan’s version of Frankenstein
Lyndsey Winship
21, Sep, 2021 @5:00 AM
Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021
Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage
Arifa Akbar, Brian Logan and Lyndsey Winship
26, Aug, 2021 @7:00 AM
Manchester international festival: Sea Change; Breathless Puppets – review
Boris Charmatz gets Manchester’s communal toes tapping, while Akram Khan partners with hand-drawn animation in a coming-of-age tale
Bidisha
11, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM
Aakash Odedra: Rising review – superhero speed with a light touch
Odedra revives his inspiring 2011 show of four solo works choreographed by himself, Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Lyndsey Winship
25, May, 2021 @2:49 PM
'We are guests on Earth': Akram Khan to stage The Jungle Book as climate crisis tale
Choreographer’s new version, to be performed at Leicester’s Curve in 2022, reinvents Kipling’s Mowgli as a climate refugee
Lyndsey Winship
19, Mar, 2021 @10:27 AM
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