Slut
Slut is the new work by Amina Khayyam Dance Company (AKDC), which premièred at the Edinburgh Fringe and responds to a personal encounter experienced by Khayyam when she was growing up.
27 September 2017
Review – Dance Performance
Sigma
Sigma is a new forty-five-minute work developed by Gandini Juggling (developed in partnership with Seeta Patel) that explores choreographic architectures, visual patterning and the rhythmic crossover between bharatanatyam and juggling.
27 September 2017
Beyond the Frame and Gods and Mortals
The Odissi Ensemble opened Luton Hat Factory’s Beyond the Frame Sunday afternoon performance series with an improvisatory exploration of the spaces of the venue’s café, moving between the packed tables to make their stage the broad window sills.
23 June 2017
Queen Size
Nishit Saran’s article ‘Why My Bedroom Habits Are Your Business’ is the trigger for the creation of this insightful, thought-provoking, gutsy and confrontational contemporary dance choreography by Mandeep Raikhy in response to Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises homosexuality in India.
23 June 2017
Conditions of Carriage
It is a game played by an invisible hand with one team of ten players on a square, red-carpeted floor with a broad, raised rim on all four sides, like a trampoline without the elastic.
23 June 2017
Echoes and I Imagine
The setting of a theatre is not the most conducive to a meditative state; its dimensions are more utilitarian than spiritual and one’s focus on the stage is shared (in the case of the Lilian Baylis Studio) with about 180 other people.
15 March 2017
Plurality of Abhinaya
Many art forms have expressed the notion of plurality by transcending boundaries and evolving with the times. In today’s world, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘global’ and ‘inclusion’ are buzz-words.
15 December 2016
Subduction Zone
There are some stories that get swept under the rug. Perhaps there aren’t enough opportunities to express them or there is an assumption that no one is listening.
15 December 2016
Inter_rupted
Attachment, the subject Mangaldas explores choreographically in seventy-five minutes of uninterrupted choreography.
15 December 2016
An East Wind
Those who have attended a few Bengali song-and-dance programmes, including those presenting themselves (justifiably or not) as ‘dance-dramas’, have doubtless also acquired a fairly sure sense of what to expect from these occasions.
15 December 2016