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
Madhavi Reimagined: A Bharatanatyam Exploration by Amritha Jayakrishnan
Image: Kattam Katti (above) SEVENS (below) from Instagram company publicity
As the performance season in the UK directs us towards pantos and Christmas carols, South Asian dancers have been looking to new frontiers.
An alliterative title, three seemingly divergent concepts, and the idea that repetition can produce complexity.
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
Image: Screenshot from trailer for Romeo and Juliet
Nuanced abhinaya comes from the process of ‘inner dialogue’, bharatanatyam artist Vidhya Subramanian tells dancer and educator Kumudha Chandrasekaran.
25 September 2022
Bhavan, London
Reviewed by Annapoorna Kuppuswamy
