SIZE OF COMPANY
Up to 12 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Large

PERMANENT STAFF
Akram Khan
Artistic Director
Farooq Chaudhry
Producer
Julia Carruthers
Executive Director
Fabiana Piccioli
Technical Manager
Christina Paul
Communications Co-ordinator

ARTISTIC POLICY
Embracing an artistic principle that both respects and challenges tradition and modernity, Akram Khan’s style is informed by Indian kathak dance forms and contemporary dance. Akram Khan Company is known for its intercultural and interdisciplinary collaborations, bringing together an international company of dancers that performs to sell-out audiences around the world.  

REVIEW EXTRACTS

Nitin Sawhney's pulsating, pre-recorded score is perfectly matched to the needle-sharp textures and muted colours of Khan's detailed choreography, which this ensemble interprets with astonishing fluidity and facility, quite blowing you away.
The Independent (Bahok)
'In-I' is an admirable exercise in pure audacity…There is no better conveyer of emotional fagility [than Binoche].
Financial Times (In-I)
Two dazzling sequences set the seal on this extraordinary meeting of minds and bodies.
The Times (Sacred Monsters)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Sacred Monsters
Sacred Monsters is first and foremost the meeting and exchange of two 'stars' of the present day dance world: Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan. But there is also a flip side to stardom. Having to live up to the expectations of your audience to be perfect, positive, good (at)…The divine status becomes inhuman, monstrous.
75 mins no interval, 2 dancers, 5 musicians, 3 techs, 1 tour manager
Bahok
Originally a collaboration with the National Ballet of China, Khan brings together 8 dancers from different cultures and dance backgrounds. As such they resemble a present day version of Babel, speaking both with their bodies and tongues different languages. They meet in one of this globalised world’s transit zones and try to communicate: they are carriers. They are bahok.
75 mins no interval, 8 dancers, 2 techs, 1 tour manager, 1 Executive Director
In-I
Conflicts, fear, needs and hopes can be walls that we have to face. However, in between two people, there’s a third, the space in between the two, and it is in the search for the third that we discover who we really are. If the Greeks had 14 words to describe different ways of loving, how many do we experience?
Juliette Binoche & Akram Khan
65 mins, no interval, 2 performers, 1 tour manager, 4 techniicians, 1 producer

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
New Kathak Solo
Akram Khan dances new classical kathak in a solo show, accompanied by 6 live musicians. One of the musicians will be a kodo drummer and Khan plans a short ‘guest’ duet with kathak dancer Yuko Inoue.  
Premieres at Sadler’s Wells on 16 November 2009
Middle East Project (title tbc)
A pure dance work involving a cast of 12 dancers.  6 performers who have not worked with Khan before will be recruited from middle east counties.  Age range of cast 18 – 60 yrs. Music by Nitin Sawhney.  
Premieres late September 2010.

WRAP-AROUND
Bahok – class or workshop  for local professional dancers based on Bahok
Meet the Artists sessions – for all shows

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2005 Various: ‘ma’,  Zero Degrees
2006 Various: Sacred Monsters, ‘ma’, Third Catalogue
2007 Various: Zero Degrees, Sacred Monsters, Third Catalogue
2008 Various: Bahok, In-I, Sacred Monsters

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Bahok – September 2009 to May 2010
In-I – February/March 2010 tbc
Sacred Monsters – upon request
Kathak solo – May/June 2010, possibly other openings tbc