Ravi Shankar’s Sukanya explores common ground in music from east and west and draws on myth and personal experience. As it receives its première this spring, Ken Hunt tells the story behind this music, dance and drama creation.
15 March 2017
There are some stories that get swept under the rug. Perhaps there aren’t enough opportunities to express them or there is an assumption that no one is listening.
15 December 2016
I f I Could Reach Home was created and performed by Magdalen Gorringe with dancers Lakshmi Srinivasan and Vidya Patel as an Akademi commission under the Choreogata scheme to develop choreographic voices.
15 December 2016
Those who have attended a few Bengali song-and-dance programmes, including those presenting themselves (justifiably or not) as ‘dance-dramas’, have doubtless also acquired a fairly sure sense of what to expect from these occasions.
15 December 2016
Attachment, the subject Mangaldas explores choreographically in seventy-five minutes of uninterrupted choreography.
15 December 2016
Many art forms have expressed the notion of plurality by transcending boundaries and evolving with the times. In today’s world, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘global’ and ‘inclusion’ are buzz-words.
15 December 2016
With Aruna Sairam, what need is there to equivocate or elaborate? She is one of the most defining and moving voices in the world of music, irrespective of musical genre
15 December 2016
“The seeds of Land of Gold originated, in the context of the humanitarian plight of refugees. It coincided with the time when I had recently given birth to my second child.
15 December 2016
Claire Farmer and Seema de Jorge-Chopra on how dance science can help dancers perform to their peak potential.
15 December 2016
