Move to Live with Akram Khan

Jonzi D discovered the power of dance, drama and storytelling growing up in East London in the 1970s and 80s. He’s gone on to create exciting platforms for people to explore the different manifestations of hip hop - breakdance, music, graffiti, rap, beatboxing and more. And to bring out inner feelings in movement, in expressions of joy and trauma, tension and release.  Jonzi calls it cultural...

Olivier Award-winning Actress and Director Kathryn Hunter is renowned for her work with physical theatre, notably with the pioneering theatre company Complicité, co-founded by her late husband Marcello Magni. She talks to Akram about her work with Marcello and how movement has always been a cornerstone of her approach to acting. Shakespeare has also been a cornerstone of Kathryn’s career and she d...

Francesca Hayward joined the Royal Ballet in London at the age of eighteen and since 2016 she has been a Principal dancer. She talks to Akram about her grandmother buying her a ballet video aged three, how the stories she saw enveloped her, and the drama of dance became her all-consuming passion. She says ‘as a small person’ she likes to surprise people by using the stage to the max – her big jump...

Actor, filmmaker and activist Khalid Abdalla was born in Scotland to Egyptian parents and feels at home in both London and Cairo. His film credits include Paul Greengrass’s United 93, in which he plays one of the hijackers in the 9/11 attacks, Green Zone, The Kite Runner and Jehane Noujaim’s Oscar nominated The Square, about the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and its aftermath. Khalid also played Dod...

Violinist and author Izzy Judd opens up to Akram about the impact that a family tragedy has had on her and the ways she has found to cope. As a past finalist on Britain’s Got Talent and a performer with her husband’s band McFly, she reflects on how a small venue can be more intimidating than a massive stadium. And when it comes to her children learning new skills, how is movement an essential ingr...

For decades actor and director Andy Serkis has been at the cutting edge of how the movements and expressions of the human body can merge with animation to create creatures of myth and the imagination, from King Kong and Caesar from Planet of the Apes to Tolkien’s Gollum in The Lord of the Rings .  He talks to Akram about his early days acting in theatre repertory where he learned how physical...

Akram describes artist and stage designer Es Devlin as a force of both nature and wisdom. In a wide ranging conversation Es reveals to Akram how being sensitive to movement has a profound effect on all her many and varied design projects. Es Devlin talks about the movement that is both within us and all around us, and how as an artist she harnesses it for creativity. From the subtleties of human e...

As a taster to his new series, choreographer and dancer Akram Khan introduces us to his passion for movement and the way it affects everything he does in life. In conversation with Marquee TV’s Director of Content, Susannah Simons. Akram’s groundbreaking and innovative work includes projects ranging from Jungle Book reimagined to the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, while his many collaborators incl...

Acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan explores the transformative power of movement in a brand new series of insightful conversations. He delves into the lives of top actors, artists, musicians, and dancers, revealing how movement fuels their creativity and well-being. Join Akram as he unpacks the power that movement has to enrich our experiences on a personal and collective level. In this preview yo...