Skip to main content

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
The Dance Floor presents: Fly-Kid
A group of children dancing as colourful confetti falls down around them

The Dance Floor presents: Fly-Kid

Sadler's Wells East
Le Fils du Grand Réseau - “Fish Bowl”
Three perfomers in evening wear walk exaggeratedly with one arm lifted high, faces to the camera.

Le Fils du Grand Réseau - “Fish Bowl”

Peacock Theatre
Sold Out
Breakin’ Convention: Back to the Lab 2026
A group of four dancers in dark clothing and hoods, stood one behind the other, lowering in stance with the fourth member crouched down.

Breakin’ Convention: Back to the Lab 2026

Lilian Baylis Studio
Sold Out
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
Get Tickets

Play trailer

Akram Khan in Carnival of Shadows
Play Video
Play Video
A black and white still from the illustrated film. Two men stand in a garden in trousers, shirts and ties, holding hands and raising them.

Breathless Puppets

Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage

Choreographed by Akram Khan and directed by Naaman Azhari, this powerful short film tells the story of two men with a passion for dance who reconnect through the tragedy of the pandemic.

Breathless Puppets