You know what it’s like when you’re reading a really great book… you can peek to see how many pages remain. When you’re in a really great Hindustani recital, there’s no knowing how many ‘pages’ are left.
24 December 2015
Renaissance iconography and traditional Indian dance converge when a crimson sari of intense contrast folds and contours around the dancing figure of Bengali artist Bisakha Sarker MBE.
24 December 2015
In 1994 the San Anselmo, CA-based Moment! record label released an album with the title Masters of Percussion. It was a ten-piece percussion ensemble that the tabla maestro Zakir Hussain had gathered together.
19 December 2015
As one would expect from such a renowned critic and dance writer, Leela Venkataraman’s latest book is painstakingly researched and benefits from both the author’s balanced, analytic approach and the constellation of beautiful dance photographs scattered throughout.
14 September 2015
Well-known odissi dancer Ileana Citaristi’s third book, My Journey: A Tale of Two Births, is an autobiography and memoir.
14 September 2015
From 24 to 26 July 2015 Canada’s Sampradaya Dance Creations hosted the Beyond Boundaries – Imagining a New Future for South Asian Dance in Canada National Dance Symposium in Mississauga, Ontario.
14 September 2015
Treating an abstract theme presents a challenge for any choreographer trained in Indian classical dance. How can the body reproduce the naturally disembodied?
14 September 2015
Celebrated artists Aakash Odedra and Kalpana Raghuraman recently presented their works Rising and Through the Eyes of My City respectively in Singapore at Samarpana 2015. The three-day festival was held at the Esplanade Theatre.
14 September 2015
Akademi’s Choreogata is a professional development programme commissioning two artists each year to create new, contemporary South Asian dance works…. Read More
14 September 2015
Nepal is close to the hearts of walkers and climbers who seek to scale the glittering peaks of the Himalayan range. Equally the magnificence of its architecture, like the medieval township of Bhaktapur sadly severely damaged in the recent earthquake, is well-known to travellers.
14 September 2015
