Uncharted Seas/Timeless
Trying to find a way to resolve the potential conflict between past and present, tradition and contemporaneity remains a concern of so many South Asian dance artists that it’s practically become a cliché.
13 September 2012
Author: Donald Hutera
Donald Hutera is a freelance arts journalist, devising performer and occasional PR, mentor and dramaturg.
London 2012 Olympic Games – Keeping the Dance Flame Alive
What can we expect from the arts in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games? Donald Hutera investigates.
15 June 2012
Anusha Subramanyam
Bharatanatyam artist, Anusha Subramanyam, talks training, creation and philosophy with Donald Hutera.
15 June 2012
Rising
It’s fascinating to observe even a bit of the grooming of a potential star. Trained in kathak as well as various other dance forms, Aakash Odedra is a talented and lucky young man to have acquired the support of so many people and organisations.
13 March 2012
Shades of Love
It’s always gratifying to see a group of artists whose work evinces a potential to someday display them all together at the top of their game.
9 December 2011
Shane Shambhu – Meeting of Head and Heart
This artist reveals to Donald Hutera his passion for creating dance theatre that will touch audiences and make a difference.
19 September 2011
Exposure: Dance
These two evenings of short works by young and more established choreographers yielded unsurprisingly mixed results.
19 September 2011
Sriyah
For many years the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble has been led by the school’s very first student, the dancer and choreographer Surupa Sen. And so, fittingly, it was she who appeared with two other dancers, Bijayini Satpathy and Pavithra Reddy, in a rather sparsely-staged and yet rewarding programme of solos, duets and trios at the 2011 edition of the Edinburgh International Festival.
19 September 2011
Kali Chandrasegaram
Donald Hutera traces the journey of this multidimensional artist from a dance class in Kuala Lumpur to becoming one of the three ACE/Akademi choreographic bursary awardees.
17 June 2011
Her and Bliss
There are two basic perspectives from which to consider this solo evening by the multi-faceted Anita Ratnam, a well-known dancer, choreographer, writer and producer.
11 March 2011