After establishing themselves in the UK and following a successful UK tour in 2009, Pagrav Dance Company brings to the plate a double bill of two very different works: the vivid solo Anant – Endless and the deeply emotive duet I, within.
9 December 2011
It’s always gratifying to see a group of artists whose work evinces a potential to someday display them all together at the top of their game.
9 December 2011
Let’s begin with a confession. Let’s lay some cards on the table. Attending every Ravi Shankar concert had no longer been a must. The reasons for that were complex and varied.
9 December 2011
Ecstatic Journey, the last night of Barbican’s Transcender festival, presented a taster of Sufi music from some outstanding musicians from Morocco, Pakistan, India and Indonesia.
9 December 2011
The South Indian veena player S. Balachander (1927–90) was one of the subcontinent’s most remarkable, maverick and acclaimed instrumentalists.
9 December 2011
From the outside, the Bhavan Centre doesn’t seem like the most obvious place for a kathak recital but take a look inside and this former church in West Kensington becomes a gateway to the classical Indian arts.
19 September 2011
It is 150 years since the birth of Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali writer, musician, artist and all-round Renaissance man. To mark the occasion, Akademi has commissioned and produced a new dance piece by Ash Mukherjee.
19 September 2011
These two evenings of short works by young and more established choreographers yielded unsurprisingly mixed results.
19 September 2011
For many years the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble has been led by the school’s very first student, the dancer and choreographer Surupa Sen. And so, fittingly, it was she who appeared with two other dancers, Bijayini Satpathy and Pavithra Reddy, in a rather sparsely-staged and yet rewarding programme of solos, duets and trios at the 2011 edition of the Edinburgh International Festival.
19 September 2011
Kala Ramnath’s concerts are magical mystery tours with no destination on the front of the bus. Exactly where she will transport and deposit listeners is all down to her spontaneous craft and creativity.
19 September 2011
