He was awarded the BEM (Order of the British Empire Medal) in the 2021 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Dance and to the community in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
Aakash Odedra is dyslexic. In 2014, he attended a TED talk at the TEDGlobal in Rio De Janeiro. He didn't talk but he danced an excerpt of his work "Murmur" in which he explores how the misconceptions of dyslexia can be revealed through movement.