Subduction Zone
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
Issue
Inter_rupted
Attachment, the subject Mangaldas explores choreographically in seventy-five minutes of uninterrupted choreography.
15 December 2016
An East Wind
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
If I Could Reach Home
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
Young Voices
Now that South Asian classical music and dance have become established and visible in the UK, how are young musicians and dancers trained and based in the UK building their careers? Sanjeevini Dutta and Gopa Roy talked to some young artists.
14 September 2016
Choreographing resistance. Resisting definitions – Ananya’s Contemporary Odissi and Her Pledge to Social Change
Odissi dancer Elena Catalano reflects on how Ananya Chatterjea’s thought and choreographic work unsettles and provokes new understandings.
14 September 2016
My Soul is Alight
My Soul is Alight presented a beguiling glimpse into odissi and kathak through movements, themes, colours and emotions.
14 September 2016
The Magic Fish
The Magic Fish is Mayuri Boonham’s first work for children, and the centrepiece of this year’s Something Happening For Kids children’s festival at The Place.
14 September 2016
A double bill: Rouh, Spoken Word and Ghazal
Natalia Hildner ‒ a dancer with the nazāka (delicacy, elegance) and adā (grace) of the Lucknow gharana of kathak and yet with a very contemporary feel ‒ performed in a double bill presented by Sama Arts Network
14 September 2016
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