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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Not Appropriation...
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
Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty- Student’s Perspective
Vocalist Ranjana Ghatak and sitar and vocal artist Debipriya Sircar speak to Pulse about their experiences of learning under the master.
Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty-pioneer of raga music for all
The name of Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty is well-known to lovers of classical Indian music in the UK and around the world. His musical career spans five decades.
Mandelbrot, Meera’s Madhava, and Messy Meaning-Making
An alliterative title, three seemingly divergent concepts, and the idea that repetition can produce complexity.
Divya Sharma’s Manch Pravesh
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.
We Stand Against Casteism in Indian Performing Arts
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