Ritu Shringar
Pawar’s recent work, ‘Ritu Shringar’ – ‘Seasons of Love’, collaboration with sitar maestro Gaurav Mazumdar, was humble and harmoniously uplifting.
22 September 2009
Review – Dance Performance
Sringara: Journey of Desire
It was one of those rare Sundays in London full of warm sunshine and an evening of bharatanatyam performed to live music at the Royal Opera House was a perfect end to the weekend.
22 September 2009
Her Story
Srinidhi Raghavan and Sahasara Sambamoorthi are bharatanatyam dancers based in New York who met at graduate school in Columbia and in 2007 started working on the concept of Her Story, which premiered a year later in Manhattan.
22 September 2009
Circa
Gauri Sharma Tripathi’s definition of ‘Circa’ as a time for new beginnings was certainly in evidence as she joined forces with beatbox performer and South Bank Associate Artist Shlomo.
22 June 2009
My Stamping Ground
The forty-eight minute production featuring five dancers, four musicians, a singer and a rap artist exploring the gang culture in the city came across as something between a Tamil film with a run-of-the-mill-storyline and a bharatanatyam piece with countless ‘dith dith thei’ and a sprinkling of other recognisable steps.
12 June 2009
Avartan
Avartan was this year’s annual showcase by students of kathak teacher Abhay Shankar Mishra, offering a diverse collection of group choreography from classical to folk and Bollywood-influenced work.
12 June 2009
From Stardust To Life
From Stardust to Life combines scientific explanations on the origins of the universe, with Darwin’s theory of evolution and Hindu mythology the ‘Dashavatara’.
12 June 2009
Box
Joyce SoHo Theatre in New York City (April 3-5, 2009) hosted Hari Krishnan’s (Artistic Director) Toronto-based InDance Company’s 10th anniversary Program titled Box.
12 June 2009
Kathak Repertoire
After a break of thirteen years to raise a family, Kajal Sharma returned to the stage at London’s Nehru Centre with a solo kathak performance.
12 June 2009
Just Add Water?
In her latest work Shobana Jeyasingh uses food as a metaphor for how we define ourselves and subsequently establish – and overcome – distinctions and divisions of personal taste or cultural origin and identity.
12 June 2009