Royal Danish Ballet’s Lady Macbeth: Akram Khan works his magic again

Meirambek Nazargozhayev as Macbeth and Stephanie Chen Gundorph as Lady Macbeth in Lady Macbeth

Meirambek Nazargozhayev, Stephanie Chen Gundorph and Emma Riis Kofoed in Lady Macbeth

Royal Danish Ballet in Akram Khan’s Lady Macbeth

Meirambek Nazargozhayev as Macbeth and Mathieu Rouaux as King Duncan in Lady Macbeth

Royal Danish Ballet in Akram Khan’s Lady Macbeth

Liam Redhead as Banquo with Royal Danish Ballet in Lady Macbeth

Von Graham Watts, 10 Mai 2026

Laden, bitte warten...

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“this scene is an example of Khan’s consummate skill in managing large numbers”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The Opera House: Main Stage, Copenhagen, am 7 Mai 2026

Lady Macbeth (Akram Khan)

Royal Danish Ballet

Vello Pähn, Musikalische Leitung

Tim Yip, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Michael Hulls, Licht

Königliche Kapelle Kopenhagen

Ryan Joseph Stafford, Licht

Meirambek Nazargozhayev, Tanz

Stephanie Chen Gundorph, Tanz

Mathieu Rouaux, Tanz

Jin Min Hong, Tanz

Den Atem stocken lassen: der neue Ballettabend in Stuttgart

Rainer Zerbst, 28th June

Drei Werke von Akram Khan, Johan Inger und Itzik Galili schaffen einen atemberaubenden Abend.

*****

Akram Khan’s Giselle for ENB at the Coliseum: hauntingly mesmeric

Deborah Weiss, 15th January

ENB have brought Akram Khan’s Giselle to London's Coliseum for the first time. It’s looking better than ever and should not be missed.

*****

‘Osipova/Linbury’: a pot pourri of delights

Deborah Weiss, 10th November

An interesting evening displaying the many facets of Natalia Osipova's talents alongside her equally exciting guests at the Linbury.

****1

Thikra: Night of Remembering – past voices shaping our present

Daniel Pratt, 29th October

Akram Khan in concentrated colour, setting the darkness chiming with Thikra: Night of Remembering at London's Sadler's Wells.

****1

Thikra, la nouvelle création capillotractée d’Akram Khan

Laurine Mortha, 2nd October

Le chorégraphe anglais d'origine bangladaise propose une nouvelle création qui raconte avec une surprenante naïveté narrative un semblant de rituel féminin, confrontant les cultures orientales mais sans créer de dialogue fécond.

**111

Les duos contrastés de « Dialogues II » au TCE

Julie Jozwiak, 26th April

L'art du duo est à l'honneur au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées dans le cadre de TranscenDanses, avec des pièces courtes mais intenses de Mats Ek, Samantha Lynch, Akram Khan et Sharon Eyal.

***11

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.