Catch The Bird Who Won’t Fly & Our Animal Kingdom
Catch The Bird Who Won’t Fly Amina Khayyam Company & Our Animal Kingdom Akram Khan Company and Numeridanse Reviewed by the Pulse Dance Club 21 December 2020 A group of…
Supriya Nagarajan – singer, composer, synesthete.
New ideas and aesthetics inspire Supriya Nagarajan, classically-trained Carnatic vocalist, erstwhile bank manager, and founder of the Yorkshire-based arts organisation Mansamitra. Sanjeevini Dutta took the opportunity to find out more…
Secular Themes in Bharatanatyam: Ideas for an Inclusive Future – Part III
In the first two essays of this series, I presented the need for more secular themes in bharatanatyam and how we can find inspiration from ancient sangam poetry, which…
Dancer in Lockdown – On Practice
"...the ability to cultivate an inner space that has clarity, expansiveness and grace is the real goal of our practice." In the days before official lockdown, when people had begun…
Secular Themes in Bharatanatyam: Ideas for an Inclusive Future Part II
In the first essay of this series, I presented my synthesis of the relevance of religion in bharatanatyam in relation to the present day multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multifaith audience, and…
The Currency of Caste: Arundhati Roy in Conversation with Ken Hunt
B.R. Ambedkar, principal architect of the Indian Constitution, had in 1936 prepared a presidential address for delivery at the annual conference of a Hindu reformist group, the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal…
Aakash Odedra and Hu Shenyuan In Conversation
Samsara : A major new international collaboration This year will see the pairing of two extremely virtuosic dancer-choreographers in a new dance production that reinterprets a classical Chinese epic. Hu Shenyuan…
Secular Themes in Bharatanatyam: Ideas for an Inclusive Future – Part I
Sangam, the earliest known literature from South India, provides an abundance of secular themes for the bharatanatyam dancer. In the first of a series of three articles on secular themes…
Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution
Kali striding over Shiva, probably Krishnanagar, Bengal, 1890s. ??The Trustees of the British Museum Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution British Museum, London Supported by Bagri Foundation 25 September 2020 – 21…
Pleasure and Pain – Dancing in the Outdoors
Bharatanatyam dancer and Peak District National Park Ranger Chamu Kuppuswamy tells us of how she is combining her twin passions. Photos: Credit: Simon Richardson | Location: Michael's Folly, Hertford…
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