Journeys carry baggage, as do identities. What is to be said of journeys made by foreparents passing on conflicting identities as an inheritance? Porkpie Dance Theatre’s director Anaish Parmar looks to his family history book for a soul-searching answer.
14 March 2013
How much of us is found in others? For visual artist, choreographer and performer Hetain Patel, his discoveries take to the philosophy of his childhood hero, martial artist Bruce Lee: “Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless like water.”
18 December 2012
Sensational is when a soft breeze kisses down a naked spine’s trail. The vertebrae squirm with desire, and goosebumps await for a warm touch to terrorise that carnal yearning. This is the thin line between pleasure and pain. This is also … a shiver.
11 March 2011
Akram Khan’s curated double bill of Aakash Odedra and Yuko Inoue could be seen as a Thanksgiving feast with generous portions of kathak delights prepared by the avant-garde Kumudini Lakhia.
11 December 2009
Pawar’s recent work, ‘Ritu Shringar’ – ‘Seasons of Love’, collaboration with sitar maestro Gaurav Mazumdar, was humble and harmoniously uplifting.
22 September 2009
Feisty, opinionated and adventurous, choreographer Farah Khan shares her insights into why the world needs Bollywood and dance.
18 March 2009
The Sonia Sabri Dance Company presented ‘Parallels’ at Croydon’s Clocktower continuing its ‘quest to infuse … kathak with contemporary relevance’ with a mixed bill of solos (including choreographies by Shobana Jeyasingh and Lisa Torun), where ‘… classical and cutting edge modern day interpretations of kathak [existed] side by side’.
18 March 2009
