2000 – Akram Khan Dance Company founded

As a young adult, Akram Khan studied contemporary dance at Leicester’s De Montfort University, continuing on to the Northern School of Contemporary Dance before working with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in Belgium. He presented a series of solo performances in Britain in the late 1990s before a meeting with Farooq Chaudhry sparked the idea for a dance company to be established the following year. Khan and Chaudhry, who currently works as executive producer for Khan’s company, aimed to make work that investigated the unfamiliar and avoided compromise, blending Khan’s experience of both Kathak and contemporary dance styles. This foundation was used as a departure point to collaborate with the very best artists across a variety of disciplines.