Akram Khan Company - DESH

The Stage“Funny, touching, uplifting and occasionally touched by toxic horror...” In a series of scenes that deliver increasingly sophisticated visual installations, including an animated projection of trees, birds, the sea and an elephant - he interacts with virtuoso mime and dramatic shifts...

The New York Times“Meshes the virtual and the real to startling ends...” A meditation on social identity, a journey to the mythical land of one’s ancestors, an evocation of childhood as a place of stories and mystery, and a quest for the self. All of it is permeated by Mr. Khan’s fascinating movement style...

The Independent“Desh piles up layers of meaning...” His dancing is mercurial, his characters superbly realised. With Desh, Khan returns to the theme of identity, a major strand in his work, with new depth and immediacy...

this is london“Technically ingenious, theatrically unsettling... ” From a cook feeding his fellow villagers, to a parent negotiating with a small child, to a stressed westerner ranting at a call centre somewhere in Bangladesh. All are beguiling multi-lingual, multi-cultural stories that seem to reassure...

The Telegraph“Poignant, thrilling, magical, moving...” Suddenly, magically, the laces are transformed into a rope, then a boat, then the very land of elephants and honey bees that he was describing. (Take a bow, “new-orientalist” designer Tim Yip and digital animators Yeast Culture.)...