Akademi Dance Film Festival 2021
Akademi Dance Film Festival 2021
Friday and Saturday 19th & 20th March 2021
Reviewed by the Pulse Dance Audience Club
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.
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.
Reflection on Sadir, a forgotten heritage
Dance Dialogue: Glittering Tales: Dancing for Rajahs, Nawabs, and the Officers of the Raj
Swarnamalya Ganesh and Chitra Sundaram
25 June 2019
Asia House, London
#Akademi Chronicles – what can we learn?
Urged by the creator Shivaangee Agrawal to take some time to explore the Akademi Archives (a Heritage Lottery funded project), I grudgingly accepted the nudge. Once I began, I was hooked.
The Stories of Our Elders: Akademi’s Oral History Project
How does a chat with a grandparent become material for movement?
Finding a deeper meaning in the spoken word is the essence of Akademi’s Oral History dance project, entering its second phase at the end of January 2021.
The Troth
The Troth
Akademi and Gary Clarke
Saturday 5 May 2018
Alchemy Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
Reviewed by Nicholas Minns