Video: Akram Khan's DESH at Sadlers Wells When Akram Khan's then-new solo show DESH first appeared at Sadler's Wells, I said it was "as transporting a piece of dance as I have ever seen" and "his best show yet: poignant, thrilling, magical, moving and, throughout its perfectly judged 80 minutes, utterly transfixing." A year and a half later, I stand by every word. Khan was born in London, of Bangladeshi descent, and DESH (Bengali for "homeland") is essentially his attempt to understand his parents" country and thereby make sense of himself. Although based on a handful of tableaux created by Khan and poet Karthika Nair, the added conceit is that his father has died, and that the entire show is in some ways the dialogue he'd like to have had with him had he not been too young and foolish to listen. What follows is a mesmerising tapestry of extraordinary dance, beautiful music (by Joscelyn Pook) and lighting (by Michael Hulls), and astonishing animation (take a bow, "new-orientalist" designer Tim Yip and digital animators Yeast Culture), all served up by Khan with indecent amounts of imagination and in a perfectly concise package. It returns for its third run at Sadler's Wells on June 11 (until June 15), and if I were you I'd beg, borrow and steal to get a ticket. Trust me: you won't be disappointed.