GIGENIS: The generation of the Earth
GIGENIS: The generation of the Earth by Akram Khan & Guests November 20, 2024 Sadler's Wells, London Reviewed by Donald Hutera Premièred in France at the end of August, British…
Flexible Bodies, British South Asian Dancers in an age of Neo-Liberalism
Flexible Bodies, British South Asian Dancers in an age of Neo-Liberalism. Anusha Kedhar Oxford University Press, 2020. Reviewed by Magdalen Gorringe As dancers, busy with class and riyaaz or with…
Catch The Bird Who Won’t Fly & Our Animal Kingdom
Catch The Bird Who Won’t Fly Amina Khayyam Company & Our Animal Kingdom Akram Khan Company and Numeridanse Reviewed by the Pulse Dance Club 21 December 2020 A group of…
Heritage – Stone or Water?
Heritage is arguably one of mankind‘s greatest assets. But how should dance heritage inform practice in the twenty-first century? Naseem Khan looks at the interplay between continuity and change. This…
Does the guru-shishya model of dance teaching hold out the best prospect of creating a performer?
'We have found that it is only up to a level that you can teach students as a group. Each one’s experience, imagination and capacity is different. This can be…
Akram Khan- On Curating Darbar Festival
Akram Khan talks to Parbati Chaudhury, kathak artist, about curating the dance programme of the Darbar Festival. Q. Off the back of last year’s Darbar, what vision did you set out with…
Portraits in Otherness
Curated by Akram Khan and his producer Farooq Chaudhry, this well-packaged platform for new choreographic voices was presented as an offshoot of Khan’s mainstage performances of ‘Xenos’ at Sadler’s Wells…