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Carnival of Shadows The beginning of a third decade of storytelling

Over the past 20 years, Akram Khan Company has become a platform that retells ancient myths to speak to us now and constantly reinvents itself in order to reflect the world as it changes.

Akram Khan in Carnival of Shadows
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - ΄Sweet Mambo΄
A solo performer in a pink silk dress. Behind her a white sheet billows in the wind.

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - ΄Sweet Mambo΄

Sadler's Wells Theatre
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Chicos Mambo - TUTU
A person wearing a large, peach-colored tutu dances on a stage with red and yellow floral decorations against a red background.

Chicos Mambo - TUTU

Peacock Theatre
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Culture Club
A group of adults participate in a movement class indoors, following an instructor and raising their arms in unison.

Culture Club

Sadler's Wells Theatre
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Musical Storyland - BBC Symphony Orchestra
A happy woman smiles in front of a rainbow and large musical notes

Musical Storyland - BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sadler's Wells East
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Akram Khan in Carnival of Shadows
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