Keith Khan Associates is a London based creative organisation. The company delivers direction and design commissions and collaborates with clients to build projects and events.
Recent
Keith Khan designs for Wah! Wah! Girls
East London meets Bollywood in a new musical marking the first ever collaboration between Sadler’s Wells, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Kneehigh.
Inspired by traditional Mujra dancers, who for generations have entertained the rich and powerful with a spellbinding mix of dance and song, Wah! Wah! Girls is a contemporary new musical set in the East End of London that tells a story of love against the odds. The show has its world premiere at Sadler’s Wells’ West End venue, the Peacock Theatre from 24 May to 23 June 2012.
Sadler’s Wells, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Kneehigh Theatre’s collaborative production is part of World Stages London, a celebration through theatre of the exhilarating diversity of London’s people and culture. www.worldstageslondon.org.uk
Virtual hip hop choir
Associate Kentaké Chinyelu-Hope works with composer Paul Gladstone Reid to build a virtual Rap and Beatbox choir. Read more & watch the video
Britain's Got Bhangra wows press
Britain’s Got Bhangra opened at Watford Palace Theatre to rave reviews….
“My reaction to the musical Britain’s Got Bhangra when it played at Watford Palace last year was one of curiosity … Second time around, watching the suped-up show last night back at the Palace, I saw it achieve an impeccable sense of balance and integrity. So what’s changed? Keith Khan, who recently acted as head of culture for the London Olympics, has created a set that thrills and surprises at every turn and, best of all, puts the superb bhangra band stage centre throughout”.
-Watford Observer:5 Stars, 23 September 2011
Creative Associates
The company works closely with its talented Associates – Akala, Kentake Chinyelu-Hope, Paul Hetherington, Josanne Leonard, Alexie Sommer, Janet Waugh and Haider Zafar. Together the team cross-collaborate to build projects and offer a range of services including:
-Creative: design / direction / concept development / curation.
-Production: Project concept design / consultation / commissions.
-Communication: Graphic and spatial design / art direction of photography and illustration / web design / creative branding / viral advertising.
UNESCO Symposium, Paris
Read Keith Khan’s presentation Youth, Creativity & New Partnerships for Culture in this UNESCO publication, Funding Culture, Managing the risk. Part of UNESCO’s Culture & Development Series.
Sketches by Keith Khan
Development
Cultural Olympiad commissions
Keith Khan Associates is collaborating on the development of a number of Cultural Olympiad commissions and projects, which has included design for the UKCCA’s Carnival Crossroads project.
In partnership with the UK Centre for Carnival Arts, Keith Khan Associates has designed a carnival concept for communities in the East of England. The project looked to create an “English” carnival, inspired as much by Hip-hop and user-generated content as by carnival’s Brazilian or Trinidadian roots, and achieve a carnival procession that could only have been made in the UK.
