The dance performance by Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company at the Laban Centre for Contemporary dance made a kind of history since it was the first time that Laban had presented on its stage a performance of dance other than western contemporary.
18 March 2009
The opening sequence featured a dancer holding a pose, whose limbs were being manipulated by fellow dancers.
18 March 2009
At the QEH on London’s South Bank, the South Asian Dance Faculty was celebrating the tenth anniversary of bharatanatyam and kathak becoming part of ISTD.
18 March 2009
ugalbandis between Hindustani and Carnatic traditions have been around for decades, but many end up not so much a shared space between two traditions but a musical ping-pong between two great artists.
18 March 2009
For the best part of November 2008, an enormous array of India’s varied arts and cultures took over the Dutch capital’s auditoriums and public spaces in the Amsterdam India Festival. It was, I was reliably informed, the largest India festival ever in Europe.
18 March 2009
Mukut – The Crown of the Rasas is the title given to an evening of odissi, performed by Mitali Dev and Enakshi Das Sinha.
11 December 2008
With track titles such as ‘Red Sea’, ‘Railway Dreams’, ‘Basant’, ‘Macondo’ and ‘Fronteras’, it’s no surprise that ‘Songs for a Global Journey’ was ‘intended to inspire in us a zest for voyaging’.
11 December 2008
Over the last 40 or so years, British Indian classical music lovers have had the pleasure of hearing the great and the good. But few artists have presented Tappa.
11 December 2008
Fresh from the lush exuberance of the Electric Proms in London, the ambience of the University of Manchester was that… Read More
11 December 2008
TILLANA TARANA presented Malavika Sarukkai and Nahid Siddiqui for ‘a feast of classical dance’ that took place at Birmingham’s newly restored Town Hall as part of the International Dance Festival Birmingham
16 September 2008
