Amina Khayyam’s Yerma is a kathak adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s 1934 play of the same name, the story of a woman whose desire for a child is so desperate and whose position so untenable – her husband is stony, and society unforgiving – that she commits murder.
16 December 2013
What might two lawyers and an accountant have in common besides an interest in white-collar professions? The possibly highly surprising answer is a shared passion for classical Indian dance.
16 December 2013
In the shadowy northern quarter of the majestic York Minster, bright lights beamed across a low stage onto an audience filled with anticipation. High expectations had been set for such collaboration.
16 December 2013
It is no coincidence that Shobana Jeyasingh chose the biology of plants to underpin the twenty-fifth anniversary of her choreographic debut and the birth of her company.
16 December 2013
After an enthusiastic response to her solo work The Spirit of Frida at the Epic Women Conference in December 2012, Dutch dancer-choreographer Kalpana Raghuraman was back in Chennai to present a new work, She Ra, commissioned by Ramli Ibrahim of Malaysian-based Sutra Dance Theatre.
13 September 2013
Manickam Yogeswaran is probably the most-heard South Indian vocalist on the planet ever.
13 September 2013
Journeys carry baggage, as do identities. What is to be said of journeys made by foreparents passing on conflicting identities as an inheritance? Porkpie Dance Theatre’s director Anaish Parmar looks to his family history book for a soul-searching answer.
14 March 2013
This past weekend (26–28 October), I had the pleasure of attending the third annual Gait to the Spirit Festival of Indian classical dance in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
18 December 2012
Iqbal Khan’s Much Ado About Nothing, which recently transferred from Stratford to the Noel Coward Theatre in the West End, is part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s international Shakespeare season.
18 December 2012
Games, politics and personal and national identity are inseparably intertwined in Satinder Chohan’s new play Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi.
18 December 2012
