Last long solo for Akram

The Adelaide Festival has announced that the acclaimed dancer-choreographer Akram Khan will return in 2018 with his last solo full-length stage performance piece, XENOS.

Khan has said publicly that this will be the last time he appears as a solo artist in a full-length piece. He is now in his 40s. He still plans to do little solo roles, but has said "I would rather people say, ‘Why are you stopping?’ than ‘Why aren’t you?',” according to The Guardian newspaper.

Khan's return to the Adelaide Festival will mark 30 years to the month that he first took the stage as a 14-year-old in Peter Brook's The Mahabharata as part of the 1988 Adelaide Festival. 

The title XENOS means "stranger" or "foreigner", and represents a work that explores the myth of Prometheus through the experience of an Indian colonial soldier in the First World War. Supported by five outstanding international musicians and an award winning creative team, Khan will seek to express tales of loss, hope and redemption through the rich language of movement, light and sound.

Akram Khan's company may be well known in Australia - it has taken out several Helpmann Awards - but seeing the man himself is a much rarer event. 

Akram Khan will appear at Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, from March 16 to 18.

Details: here