Conditions of Carriage
It is a game played by an invisible hand with one team of ten players on a square, red-carpeted floor with a broad, raised rim on all four sides, like a trampoline without the elastic.
23 June 2017
Issue
Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances: The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance
Odissi has blossomed in recent decades with an increasing number of performing artists, festivals and choreographic works being produced in this dance form, both nationally and internationally.
23 June 2017
Ravi Shankar and Sukanya — The Pull of the Myth
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
Orchestrating Sukanya
Composer David Murphy worked regularly with Ravi Shankar. He spoke to May Robertson about the intensity of their projects and how he approached his orchestration of Sukanya.
15 March 2017
The Librettist — Amit Chaudhuri
Writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri talked to Ken Hunt about Ravi Shankar, comic books and telling the ancient story of Sukanya in a modern Indian tradition.
15 March 2017
Supporting Sukanya — The Bagri Foundation
Doria Tichit writes about the Bagri Foundation, who have funded the première of Sukanya.
15 March 2017
Cultivating Young Choreographers
Shivaangee Agrawal, Manuela Benini, Parbati Chaudhury, Raheem Mir and Seeta Patel tell Gopa Roy about the visions that Akademi’s Choreography Commissions are helping them to realise.
15 March 2017
BBC Young Dancer 2017 — Taking to the stage (and screen) again
As we look forward to BBC Young Dancer 2017 Pulse proofreader Pamela Covey shares her response to the first series.
15 March 2017
Echoes and I Imagine
The setting of a theatre is not the most conducive to a meditative state; its dimensions are more utilitarian than spiritual and one’s focus on the stage is shared (in the case of the Lilian Baylis Studio) with about 180 other people.
15 March 2017