Akram Khan Company

Akram Khan is a young Muslim of Bangladeshi origin born in the Great Britain. Schooled in old dance tradition of Kathak at the Academy of Indian Dance under the tutelage of renowned guru Sri Pratap, he attained his performing arts degree at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Since early age he has danced for Ravi Shankar, Peter Brook, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1999 he collaborated with Jonathan Burrows, at the end of the same year he was a winner of a Jerwood Foundation Choreography Award. In 2000 he has completed an international choreographic project X-Group, Brussels. In August 2000 he launched his own company.
The objective of the Akram Khan Company is to explore the relationships between Western Modern dance techniques and the traditional South Asian dance form to develop a new movement language which Akram Khan describes as "Contemporary Kathak".
Akram Khan is a winner of the Most Promising Newcomer Award of The Critic's Circle Dance Awards 2000. He won a Time Out Live Award for Dance 2001. He was a nominee for a South Bank Award 2000. Since April 2001 he is a choreographer in residence at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

Fix
Choreography and dance: Akram Khan
Music: Nitin Sawhney
Lighting Design: Michael Hulls
Costume: Akram Khan

The Fix, which is Khan's new explosive solo work with music by Nitin Sawhney, is described as a chemical fusion of sound, light, and movement.
Fix was created with assistance of a Jerwood Foundation Choreography Award 1999.

Loose in Flight (Film version)
Choreography and dance: Akram Khan
Music: Angie Atmadjaja
Production: Rosa Rogers
Direction: Rachel Davies
A Wark Clements & Co production for Channel 4 Television

Loose in Flight (Stage version)
Choreography and dance: Akram Khan
Music: Angie Atmadjaja
Lighting design: Akram Khan / Charlotte McClelland
Costume: Akram Khan

Loose in Flight uses Kathak as a structural base from which Khan continuously breaks out into contemporary action.

Rush
Choreography: Akram Khan
Dance: Akram Khan, Gwyn Emberton, Moya Michael
Music: Andy Cowton
Lighting design: Michael Hulls
Kostýmy: Akram Khan

The Rush is a purely abstract work inspired by a tremendous speed contrasting a serene stillness of paragliders in a free fall. Khan performs with Gwyn Emberton and Moya Michael.

Rush has been commissioned by Dance Umbrella, Yorkshire Dance Centre, DanceEast, Birmingham DanceXchange and Sampad.
Rush has been co-produced by P.A.R.T.S. (performing arts research training studios) in Brussels as part of The X group project and has been supported by Charleroi Dance in Belgium. The Akram Khan Company would like to thank Mathilde Monnier for curating the project Rush and for co-financing from the European CoDaCo fund.