A number of Performing Arts students took part in a dance workshop led by a member of Akram Khan Dance Company recently. 

Akram Khan is one of the most celebrated and respected dance artists today. His work is recognised as being profoundly moving, in which his intelligently crafted storytelling is effortlessly intimate and epic. In 2012 he choreographed and performed for the London Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. He is fuelled by a desire to learn and create through collaboration with the very best people across all the disciplines in the arts. His rules are: take risks, think big and daring, explore the unfamiliar, and avoid compromise.

This experience was invaluable for our students as those on the A Level Dance course study Akram Khan's style and his works in depth. A Level Performance Studies and the full time UAL Performance and Production Arts students also look at his stylistic features.

In the workshop, students were taught a range of movement sequences that were incredibly challenging, and physically exhausting, giving them a real taste for Khan's style and the demands of his dance technique. Lots of sore feet and muscles but it was totally worth it.