• The Jungle Book Reimagined: how an eight-year-old girl helped reinvent a classic

    The Jungle Book Reimagined: how an eight-year-old girl helped reinvent a classic
    UK choreographer Akram Khan planned his new show while working from home, with his daughter drawing in the corner. She overheard his meetings – and had some notesAkram Khan remembers seeing Disney’s animated version of Rudyard Kipling’s the Jungle Book when he was about eight years old: “It was the first time I’d ever seen a person who looked like me represented on television,” says the British choreographer, whose stage version of the tale makes its Australia

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