Alain de Botton in The Art of Travel suggests that we are attracted to foreign cultures not because of their exotic content but because they express some aspect of one’s innermost yearnings – ‘what we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger fo
An alliterative title, three seemingly divergent concepts, and the idea that repetition can produce complexity.
On 14 September 2024 a milestone event will take place at the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham for dance student Divya Sharma and her guru Sonia Sabri.
By now many will be aware of the furore that broke out in Chennai (with ripples felt globally) over the Music Academy’s Sangita Kalanidhi award to Carnatic musician T M Krishna and the reaction by several musicians including the Gayatri sisters to boycott t
Jaivant Patel has had a meteoric rise in the world of dance since his graduation from Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2004.
Veena Basavarajaiah is a movement artist: a performer, creator, producer and activist based in Bengaluru. Her dance training ranges from bharatanatyam to kalaripayattu to contemporary. She has a Masters in Dance from Roehampton University in the UK.
‘When dancing, I feel connected to the Supreme power-the stage is my mandir’
This Mini-Series examines the connection between new musical compositions and how these elicit new ways of moving, which may or may not be outside the strict classical form.
