Akram Khan: Xenos review – his body as a battleground

Sadler’s Wells, London
The influential choreographer’s final solo show is a mythic elegy to India’s war deadIt is surely key to Akram Khan’s magnetism that his first training was in kathak dance, a predominantly solo form in which the dancer must both command the stage and conjure a world into being upon it. While Khan has forged his name as a contemporary dance artist, those qualities still distinguish him as a performer. So it is apt that he begins Xenos – a tribu