Call of Bangalore begins with an agile-minded, musically unafraid opening gambit. With its title slyly alluding to her birthplace, this studio album not only shows off violinist Jyotsna Srikanth’s roots but also her command of melodicism, rhythmicality and pace.
13 September 2013
DESH derives from a Bengali word with a few translation possibilities and semantic associations. For their 2011 dance project musician-composer Jocelyn Pook and Akram Khan settled on homeland as their preferred translation.
14 March 2013
The EPIC WOMEN CONFERENCE, curated by Anita Ratnam and hosted by Kartik Fine Arts, cleared a space for thought and reflection in the dense jungle of performance activities of the Chennai December Season.
14 March 2013
Dubbed ‘South Asia’s largest contemporary dance festival’, the 2013 edition of the Attakkalari India Biennial was the sixth to be held since its modest beginning in 2000.
14 March 2013
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
From its opening flourish, Hobey Hobey Heleyoy (‘Come Sing and Dance’) with its blend of Punjabi and Somali ingredients, the pretty much unerring plus ça change philosophical logic of Somali Party Southall is bracing.
18 December 2012
The excitement is almost tangible in the lounge of The Hague’s Korzo Theater. It is playtime for the Indian dancers in the Netherlands. The annual India Dans Festival, held in October, is unique of its kind.
18 December 2012
This past weekend (26–28 October), I had the pleasure of attending the third annual Gait to the Spirit Festival of Indian classical dance in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
18 December 2012
Iqbal Khan’s Much Ado About Nothing, which recently transferred from Stratford to the Noel Coward Theatre in the West End, is part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s international Shakespeare season.
18 December 2012
Games, politics and personal and national identity are inseparably intertwined in Satinder Chohan’s new play Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi.
18 December 2012
