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Celebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Akram Khan

This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2021 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to our hybrid ceremony taking place December 6, visit dancemediafoundation.org. Akram Khan shows us what it means to be a global citizen of dance. Growing up in London in a Bangladeshi family, he studied the North Indian form kathak, […]

Akram Khan Tackles Kung Fu for Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise

Akram Khan loves to dive into genres he is unfamiliar with. While his own movement vocabulary is a hybrid of kathak and contemporary dance, he has choreographed a new Giselle for English National Ballet, collaborated with flamenco artist Israel Galván and made a dance theater duet with film star Juliette Binoche. Now, in between touring […]

Akram Khan and Florence Welch Choreographed a Music Video Together

Akram Khan and Florence Welch (of Florence + The Machine) is not a pairing we ever would have dreamt up. But now that the music video for “Big God” has dropped, with choreography attributed to Khan and Welch, it seems that we just weren’t dreaming big enough. In the video, Welch leads a group of […]

Akram Khan Brings Untold Legends to the States

Kidnapped and dishonored on the day of her wedding, Princess Amba swears vengeance on the man responsible and is reborn as the gender-shifting Shikhandi, granting her the opportunity to defeat him in battle. This is the legend behind Akram Khan’s Until the Lions, his full-length work based on Karthika Naïr’s poetic reinterpretation of the Mahabharata […]

Peek Inside Akram Khan's Creative Process

Not many grown men can say “Catch the butterfly” and still maintain their street cred. Yet Akram Khan effortlessly balances guru-like sincerity with gritty downtown coolness. “Catch the butterfly, turn it around, pop the chest,” he calls in his soft London accent, demonstrating with tightly coiled energy. A few dancers try to imitate him, but […]