The shows’s Gilgamesh-inspired plot may be near-impossible to follow – but its dazzling performers are hard to resist Purely in terms of the dancing, the physical mastery, the jaw-dropping ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Akram Khan is in the midst of a transition. Two years ago, he announced he would retire from solo performance ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Homer Simpson is on the sofa watching Twin Peaks: “Brilliant!” he exclaims, then, sotto voce, “I have ...

Choreographer Akram Khan has long been inspired by myths and legends. His creation “Outwitting the Devil” will be performed in Israel in December. In August of 1990, shortly after the Iraqi army ...