The exploration of the state of being ‘courage’, veera in Sanskrit, opened with renowned dance artist Aditi Mangaldas highlighting the gender bias in the popular perception of the word ‘courage’. In simple…
The emotion / rasa that took us away on the fourth week of this journey was sringar. In terms of the state of being it was interpreted as ‘love’ or…
The Kitchen A dance film directed by Vishwakiran Nambi Chamudeshwari Studios, Bangalore 6 February 2021 Reviewed by Veena Basavarajaiah The film opens with the shot of a traditional upper class South Indian kitchen.…
The name of DJ Ritu is very familiar, even if we were not lucky enough to have experienced the heady Club nights of Kali and Kuch-Kuch that made her a…
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…
In August 2018 I was thrilled to have been offered the role of Artistic Associate of Yuva Gati, the South-Asian Dance strand of the Centre for Advanced Training (CAT). CAT is…
Love Letters Anoushka Shankar 30 May 2021 Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London Reviewed by Ken Hunt Let’s set the scene. Since the Corona pandemic ushered in a weird new…
Dancing Nation Sadler’s Wells & BBC Arts 28 January – 26 February 2021 Reviewed by the Pulse Dance Club 24 February 2021 These three films have been made ‘to celebrate all…
The Road to Nine I have taken the first step of a journey that promises to be super exciting, passing through nine states of being, crisscrossing time zones, sharing a ZOOM…
On the last day of 2020, the editor Sanjeevini Dutta looks back on the year. 2020 is a year like no other we have known. We have read in history…
