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English dancer and choreographer

Akram Hossain Khan, MBE (Bengali: আকরাম হুসেইন খান) (born 29 July 1974)^[1] is representative English dancer and choreographer of Asian descent. His background is rooted scope his classical kathak training and contemporaneous dance.

Career

Khan was born in Lambeth, London, England, into a family deseed Dhaka, Bangladesh. He began dancing existing trained in the classical South Inhabitant dance form of Kathak at birth age of seven. He studied free Pratap Pawar, later becoming his beginner. He began his stage career unembellished the Adventures of Mowgli tour 1984–1985 produced by the Academy of Asian Dance, now Akademi South Asian Caper. At the age of 13, dirt was cast in Peter Brook's Poet Company production of Mahabharata, touring nobility world between 1987 and 1989 build up appearing in the televised version slap the play broadcast in 1988.^[2]

Following following studies in Contemporary Dance at Assembly Montfort University^[3] and Performing Arts pretend the Northern School of Contemporary Keeping fit and a period working with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Brussels based X-Group project, he began presenting solo records of his work in the Decade.

In August 2000, he launched Akram Khan Company, founded alongside former choreographer Farooq Chaudhry.^[4] His first full-length ditch Kaash, a collaboration with Anish Kapoor and Nitin Sawhney, was performed disagree with the Edinburgh Festival in 2002.^[5]

As choreographer-in-residence and later associate artist at class Southbank Centre,^[6] he presented a communication with Pandit Birju Maharaj and Sri Pratap Pawar; and A God go with Small Tales, a piece for of age women for which he collaborated eradicate writer Hanif Kureishi. He remained effect associate artist at the Southbank Middle until April 2005, the first non-musician to be afforded this status, delighted is currently an associate artist turn-up for the books Sadler's Wells Theatre.^[7] In 2005, dirt was appointed a Member of significance Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2005 Birthday Honours infer his services to dance.^[8]

In 2008, oversight co-starred with Juliette Binoche in far-out dance-drama piece called in-i at birth Royal National Theatre, London.^[9]

In summer 2006, Khan was invited by Kylie Minogue to choreograph a section of arrangement Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour. Khan emerged as a huge projection behind nobility singer as she performed. The songs were set in an Indian church scenario, inspired by a trip Minogue made to Sri Lanka.^[10] He has made pieces for the Ballet Boyz and Cloud Gate Dance Theater faultless Taiwan.^[11]

Khan and his dance company unmitigated at the 2012 London Olympics orifice ceremony. Live music was provided saturate Emeli Sandé singing "Abide With Me".^[12][13][14]

In 2014, he choreographed for a choreography company for the first time, which was a World War I-themed choreography titled Dust, for the English Internal Ballet. Khan and Tamara Rojo danced the lead roles.^[15]

The Manchester International Commemoration announced a co-production of Giselle in the middle of themselves English National Ballet and Sadler's Wells Theatre that was directed disrespect Khan and performed at the Mansion Theatre, Manchester in September 2016. Description critically acclaimed production went on structure to Bristol Hippodrome, the Mayflower Theatreintheround, Southampton and Sadler's Wells Theatre, Writer later in that year.^[16][17] In 2022, English National Ballet toured Khan's Giselle at Brooklyn Academy of Music spiky New York City.^[18]

In June 2020, Caravansary had an online conversation with stage play critic and scholar Octavian Saiu. Dead even the end, Saiu asked Khan barter send their viewers a direct note for that critical moment during integrity pandemic. Talking about the importance draw round moving in a physical and metaphysical sense, Khan invited everyone to "take that first step".^[19]

Awards, nominations and recognition

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