Under My Skin
Who knew surgery could be so… sexy? Not me. But Sadhana Dance’s new trio Under My Skin, based on observations of operations, turns out to be a surprisingly erotic piece.
16 December 2013
Review
Daredevas
Daredevas at Arts Depot in North London was presented by Akademi, the leading producers of South Asian dance in the UK.
16 December 2013
Yerma
Amina Khayyam’s Yerma is a kathak adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s 1934 play of the same name, the story of a woman whose desire for a child is so desperate and whose position so untenable – her husband is stony, and society unforgiving – that she commits murder.
16 December 2013
Navodit
What might two lawyers and an accountant have in common besides an interest in white-collar professions? The possibly highly surprising answer is a shared passion for classical Indian dance.
16 December 2013
RUDRA – Emotive Flight
In the shadowy northern quarter of the majestic York Minster, bright lights beamed across a low stage onto an audience filled with anticipation. High expectations had been set for such collaboration.
16 December 2013
Strange Blooms & Configurations
It is no coincidence that Shobana Jeyasingh chose the biology of plants to underpin the twenty-fifth anniversary of her choreographic debut and the birth of her company.
16 December 2013
Transposed Rhythm And The Saraswati Veena
Transposed Rhythm And The Saraswati Veena was the inaugural double bill of the 2013 Darbar Festival. This Indian classical music… Read More
16 December 2013
Iconic Sitar to Mesmerising Carnatic Ragas
This double bill concluded the third day of the eighth Darbar Festival, held between 19 September and 22 September 2013.
16 December 2013
She Ra
After an enthusiastic response to her solo work The Spirit of Frida at the Epic Women Conference in December 2012, Dutch dancer-choreographer Kalpana Raghuraman was back in Chennai to present a new work, She Ra, commissioned by Ramli Ibrahim of Malaysian-based Sutra Dance Theatre.
13 September 2013
Manickam Yogeswaran
Manickam Yogeswaran is probably the most-heard South Indian vocalist on the planet ever.
13 September 2013