AKRAM KHAN COMPANY

Contemporary dance, Dance theatre, Interdisciplinary

SIZE OF COMPANY
10–13 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Middle- to large-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Akram Khan

Producer
Farooq Chaudhry

Company Manager
Charlene Lim

Technical Manager
Fabiana Piccioli

Tour Manager
Tan Shir Ee

Associate Producer for Bahok
Bia Oliveira

Finance Manager
Jan Hart

Company & Production Assistant
Estelle Rickelton

ARTISTIC POLICY
Akram Khan seeks to establish a new tradition of storytelling by drawing on influences from the North Indian classical dance form kathak, Indian classical music and western contemporary dance and music. There is also a strong and consistent focus on intercultural and interdisciplinary collaborations, as well as developing work that challenges conventional ideas of traditional dance forms.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘It helps that Khan and Guillem are incapable of making a dull or ugly move between them, but they react to each other with an intimacy that is hard to resist.’ The Guardian (Sacred Monsters)

'Unites two ravishingly beautiful movers and takes them to amazing places.' The Times (Sacred Monsters)

'It's very refreshing when you hear so much about a performer and when you see them they still manage to surpass your expectations… Blending traditional Indian classical kathak style with modern moves, Khan is a compact thunderbolt of extreme energy focused with peaceful precision.' The Daily Telegraph (Zero Degrees)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Zero Degrees Collaboration between Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Les Ballets C de la B, Belgium), sculptor Antony Gormley and composer Nitin Sawhney. (70 mins, 6 on stage including 4 musicians.)

Sacred Monsters Collaboration with French ballerina Sylvie Guillem, featuring additional choreography by Lin Hwai-Min, artistic director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, and music composed by Philip Sheppard. (75 mins without interval, 7 on stage including 2 dancers and 5 musicians.)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Inside I (working title) A collaboration that will explore notions of ascension, the visible/invisible, and angels. Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche will co-direct and perform on stage, inhabiting a surreal/visceral world created by visual artist Anish Kapoor.  (75 mins without interval).

Bahok In this collaboration with the National Ballet of China, Akram Khan brings together dancers from different cultures and dance backgrounds: Chinese, Korean, Indian, South African and Spanish. They meet and try to communicate their experiences, memories, dreams and aspirations that make them move. (75 mins without interval.)

WRAP-AROUND
A limited number of masterclasses.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 France, Greece, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, USA (Sacred Monsters), Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of China, Spain, Sweden (Zero Degrees)
2007 Italy, Netherlands (Third Catalogue)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request