Seventieth Birthday Celebrations
What could be a more fitting tribute to a performer whose love and passion for dance remain undimmed after fifty-five years at the game, than to mark a milestone birthday by dancing?
15 June 2012
Review – Dance Performance
Rising
It’s fascinating to observe even a bit of the grooming of a potential star. Trained in kathak as well as various other dance forms, Aakash Odedra is a talented and lucky young man to have acquired the support of so many people and organisations.
13 March 2012
Towards Dawn
A vibration in an eyebrow is the first phase of a movement initiated by the head. This movement trickles through the entire body to pull the dancer, violently shaking, down to the floor.
13 March 2012
NowHere
Since her last creation, Memory, appeared at The Place’s Resolution! 2011, Divya Kasturi has become one of the Arts Council England, East’s Escalator Dance Artists, completing her first tour of the Eastern region at the Hat Factory’s intimate studio theatre.
13 March 2012
Elixir
Sadhana Dance opened their second production Elixir following its premiere in Eastleigh, at The Place Theatre, London, to a full house of mainly dance cognoscenti.
13 March 2012
Double Bill: Anant – Endless/I, within
After establishing themselves in the UK and following a successful UK tour in 2009, Pagrav Dance Company brings to the plate a double bill of two very different works: the vivid solo Anant – Endless and the deeply emotive duet I, within.
9 December 2011
Shades of Love
It’s always gratifying to see a group of artists whose work evinces a potential to someday display them all together at the top of their game.
9 December 2011
Paramaakriti : A Classical Kathak Presentation
From the outside, the Bhavan Centre doesn’t seem like the most obvious place for a kathak recital but take a look inside and this former church in West Kensington becomes a gateway to the classical Indian arts.
19 September 2011
Song of the City
It is 150 years since the birth of Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali writer, musician, artist and all-round Renaissance man. To mark the occasion, Akademi has commissioned and produced a new dance piece by Ash Mukherjee.
19 September 2011