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Indefinable magic: Akram Khan takes a final solo bow in Xenos at Sadler's Wells

By Graham Watts, 03 December 2021
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“Khan... retains everything it takes to be a mesmeric performer”
Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 30 November 2021
Programme
Xenos (Akram Khan)
Performers
Akram Khan Company
Mirella Weingarten, Set Designer
Kimie Nakano, Costume Designer
Michael Hulls, Lighting Designer
Vincenzo Lamagna, Composer
Akram Khan, Dancer
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Graham Watts
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.