Staycation/Vacation
It is an evening of two separate performances and many contrasts: between student and professional dancers, classical Indian dance and contemporary dance, narrative and abstract forms, and context and style.
14 September 2016
Author: Nicholas Minns
Studied Architecture at Cambridge, graduating with a BA and then decided to dance. He trained at the Rambert School and with Roger Tully then left for North America where he danced in the Louisville Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and finally Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal. Now living in England again, he takes class with the Tully Collective, sees as much dance and other performing and visual arts as possible, performs when the opportunity arises, reads widely and aims to bring all these elements together to add to the broad stream of those who are writing about dance.
First Light & Choreogata
For an open-application choreographic competition, Akademi’s Choreogata Artist Development Programme seems to have been dealt a demon hand this year.
20 March 2014
Strange Blooms & Configurations
It is no coincidence that Shobana Jeyasingh chose the biology of plants to underpin the twenty-fifth anniversary of her choreographic debut and the birth of her company.
16 December 2013
Subathra Subramaniam – Dance Spokesperson for Science
Bharatanatyam has always been her passion, but Suba Subramaniam also wanted to be a doctor and she trained as a scientist. She talks to Nicholas Minns about the confluence of art and science in her work as a director and choreographer.
13 September 2013
Akademi presents: Arunima Kumar and Shane Shambhu
Akademi presents: Arunima Kumar and Shane Shambhu offered a thought-provoking comparison of the ways in which these two artists, both trained in classical dance (Kumar in kuchipudi, Shambhu in bharatanatyam), have chosen to interpret their respective dance form for today’s audiences.
15 June 2012