GFEST is the umbrella name for nearly two weeks of films, visual arts, debates and live performances organised across London by the arts charity Wise Thoughts and focused on work by, or socio-cultural issues relating to, the LGBTQI community.
19 December 2014
A swimming pool, dance and live music – not the most obvious combination. In drawing together seemingly disparate elements, Synchronised offered a fabulous spectacle, adding elite synchronised swimming to the movement mix with kathak and contemporary dance.
15 September 2014
Guru Purnima, an important event in the Hindu calendar, signifies an opportunity to pay tribute to those whom we hold in the highest regard.
15 September 2014
Proclaiming the past and the future to be perpetually bound to the present, performance artist Ansuman Biswas and collaborative group ATMA enacted this concept of time and its irredeemable transience in their respective works.
23 June 2014
Artist Hetain Patel went a bit viral over the last year, with two very different presentations.
23 June 2014
For an open-application choreographic competition, Akademi’s Choreogata Artist Development Programme seems to have been dealt a demon hand this year.
20 March 2014
Basant Bells was an entertaining evening of bharatanatyam performance by Swati Dance Company.
16 December 2013
Who knew surgery could be so… sexy? Not me. But Sadhana Dance’s new trio Under My Skin, based on observations of operations, turns out to be a surprisingly erotic piece.
16 December 2013
Daredevas at Arts Depot in North London was presented by Akademi, the leading producers of South Asian dance in the UK.
16 December 2013
