A NEW work by the acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan is always a highly anticipated event in the world of dance-theatre. The creator of such spectacular pieces as XENOS – a memorable reflection on the First World War, which played at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2018 – he returns to the Festival this year with Jungle Book Reimagined.
“I wanted to take something that I grew up with as a child,” he explains, talking of Rudyard Kipling’s famous series of stories. The Jungle Book was so much a part of Khan’s early years that, he remembers, “I even played Mowgli in a dance-theatre production when I was a child.
