Seventieth Birthday Celebrations
What could be a more fitting tribute to a performer whose love and passion for dance remain undimmed after fifty-five years at the game, than to mark a milestone birthday by dancing?
15 June 2012
Review
Circle of Sound
The UK-based duo of Soumik Datta and Bernhard Schimpelsberger is an electro-acoustic hybrid with varying currents flowing through their music.
15 June 2012
Rising
It’s fascinating to observe even a bit of the grooming of a potential star. Trained in kathak as well as various other dance forms, Aakash Odedra is a talented and lucky young man to have acquired the support of so many people and organisations.
13 March 2012
Towards Dawn
A vibration in an eyebrow is the first phase of a movement initiated by the head. This movement trickles through the entire body to pull the dancer, violently shaking, down to the floor.
13 March 2012
NowHere
Since her last creation, Memory, appeared at The Place’s Resolution! 2011, Divya Kasturi has become one of the Arts Council England, East’s Escalator Dance Artists, completing her first tour of the Eastern region at the Hat Factory’s intimate studio theatre.
13 March 2012
Elixir
Sadhana Dance opened their second production Elixir following its premiere in Eastleigh, at The Place Theatre, London, to a full house of mainly dance cognoscenti.
13 March 2012
Contemporary Indian Dance: New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora
Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Studies in International Performance’ series has published one of the most significant books to come out on Indian dance studies scholarship in recent years: Ketu H. Katrak’s Contemporary Indian Dance: New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora.
13 March 2012
Kindred Spirits
Arranger-composer-pianist Zoe Rahman’s last few musical forays into her roots have proved wholly fascinating.
13 March 2012
Moving On Symposium
The Centre for Indian Classical Dance (CICD) celebrated its 30th anniversary with Moving On: National Symposium for South Asian Dance at The Curve, Leicester.
9 December 2011