Uncharted Seas/Timeless
Trying to find a way to resolve the potential conflict between past and present, tradition and contemporaneity remains a concern of so many South Asian dance artists that it’s practically become a cliché.
13 September 2012
Review
The Raghu Dixit Project
Raghu Dixit, a rising star in contemporary Indian folk music, performed as part of the final part of the Milton Keynes’ International Festival
13 September 2012
Open Souls
Open Souls, an innovative experimental group that mixes beat-boxing, ambient sounds and rhyming, had their own reason to celebrate: merging Indian classical and contemporary vibes.
13 September 2012
Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna
Never to see Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna perform live must be one of the cruellest injustices life can mete out.
13 September 2012
Jyotsna Srikanth Project
East London’s London International Arts Festival, under Jyotsna Srikanth’s curatorship and organised by Dhruv Arts, took place between 10 and 12 August.
13 September 2012
Bamboo Blues
O ne of the highlights of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad was a month-long season of works by the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
12 September 2012
Thumri Rasrang
On 17 May Dr. Margaret Walker, University of Ontario, delivered a lecture entitled ‘Subtle Glances and Graceful Stances: The Gentrification of Women’s Dance in North India’, followed by a performance of two thumris by kathak dancer Natalia Hildner.
15 June 2012
Dev Kahan Hai?/Configurations
Shobana Jeyasingh trained in bharatanatyam, and when she formed her company back in 1988 she was clear that the abhinaya aspect of that style was not her interest. Instead, it was nritta, the formal lexicon of steps, sequences and rhythms.
15 June 2012
Akademi presents: Arunima Kumar and Shane Shambhu
Akademi presents: Arunima Kumar and Shane Shambhu offered a thought-provoking comparison of the ways in which these two artists, both trained in classical dance (Kumar in kuchipudi, Shambhu in bharatanatyam), have chosen to interpret their respective dance form for today’s audiences.
15 June 2012
Odissi Dance Recital
Following her performance at the Nehru Centre in autumn 2011 – Ileana Citaristi’s first visit to the UK for many years – this Orissa-based dancer and scholar returned to conduct a one-week workshop at the Bhavan and to perform a programme of choreography by her teacher, Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.
15 June 2012