Author: Sanjoy Roy
Song of the City
It is 150 years since the birth of Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali writer, musician, artist and all-round Renaissance man. To mark the occasion, Akademi has commissioned and produced a new dance piece by Ash Mukherjee.
19 September 2011
Faultline/Bruise Blood
Have you noticed how much horror happens around teenagers? Any broad sample of horror films will show adolescents portrayed as bright young flames to the dark, mothy spirits of poltergeists and demons.
15 December 2010
Alchemy 2010 — Dance Triple Bill
A triple bill of dance at the South Bank’s Alchemy festival may have been intended as a showcase for young up-and-coming artists, but in the event it was an absent 80-year-old who dominated the programme: Kumudini Lakhia.
7 June 2010
Practice and Critique – A two-way street
Sanjoy Roy explores the tensions between performers and reviewers.
11 December 2009
Confluence
Confluence was the piece Akram Khan and Nitin Sawhney premiered as the Festival finale.
11 December 2009
Akram Khan and Nitin Sawhney – Makers & Shakers, the mould-breakers
Sanjoy Roy talks to dancer and musician about their classical training and contemporary productions crossing cultures, genres and art forms .
22 September 2009
Play Ball!
Nina Rajarani returns to the stage with three short pieces that put blokeish fun and frisk into bharatanatyam dance.
16 June 2008