GUIDE TO BEING A FREELANCE DANCER: Earning Money
Not being able to earn enough money is perhaps the most significant turn-off for those considering a career in dance.
Ruminations
Ruminations held on 15 October 2019, was a look back by Akademi, South Asian Dance in the U.K., at its forty years of existence – 1979 to 2019.
Mythili Prakash- In Conversation
Ahead of the world premiere of Here and Now, at the prestigious Dance Umbrella season, Mythili Prakash shares the ideas and motivations behind the new work with Shivaangee Agrawal.
From the 12th to the 21st Century: Gita Govinda Symposium
Gita Govinda Symposium
Ananda Odissi Arts Festival
University of Bedford
26 August 2019
Photos: Simon Richardson
In Conversation with Mira Kaushik, Director of Akademi
The task of putting South Asian dance on the map of London and the UK was a tall order. When Pushkala Gopal, dancer and former Director of the Academy of Indian Dance, left in 1984, the fledgling organisation still needed a lot of nurturing.
Seeta Patel- On Weight of an Iconic Score
Seeta Patel is spearheading some of the most exciting bharatanatyam developments in the UK. She spoke to Shivaangee Agrawal about her work, about fear, about education.
Does the guru-shishya model of dance teaching hold out the best prospect of creating a performer?
'We have found that it is only up to a level that you can teach students as a group. Each one’s experience, imagination and capacity is different.
Dance Dialogues – Dancer Profiles
Sadlers Wells and Kadam Dance place contemporary and classical South Asian dance on an equal footing in the Dance Dialogues project running currently at Hymers College in Hull.
#MeToo, one story, many stories
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