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Akram Khan (dancer)
English dancer and choreographer
Akram Hossain Khan, MBE (Bengali: আকরাম হুসেইন খান) (born 29 July 1974)[1] is an English dancer and choreographer of Bangladeshi descent.
His background is rooted in his classical kathak training and contemporary dance.
Contemporary dance akram khan biography
Career
Khan was born in Lambeth, London, England, into a family from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He began dancing and trained in the classical South Asian dance form of Kathak at the age of seven. He studied with Pratap Pawar, later becoming his disciple.
He began his stage career in the Adventures of Mowgli tour 1984–1985 produced by the Academy of Indian Dance, now Akademi South Asian Dance. At the age of 13, he was cast in Peter Brook's Shakespeare Company production of Mahabharata, touring the world between 1987 and 1989 and appearing in the televised version of the play broadcast in 1988.[2]
Following later studies in Contemporary Dance at De Montfort University[3] and Perf