Many will roll their eyes at this subject heading. Too often the bharatanatyam work that comes out of the UK is examined with regards to India, sometimes to validate its…
What stops me from perceiving my practice and my form in a radically different way, from trying things that may raise eyebrows? Is it even possible to be both a…
18 May 2019, The Place, London The Pulse Dance Audience review The first point to make about this version is that there was no sense of a disjunction between…
18 May 2019 Birmingham Hippodrome Reviewed by Pamela Covey Pamela Covey was the proofreader of Pulse for thirteen years and her knowledge of South Asian dance was imbibed from the compulsory…
14 May 2019 Birmingham Hippodrome Reviewed by Magdalen Gorringe When Igor Stravinsky’s orchestral concert work The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913 with choreography by Vaslav Njinsky, it…
In an age where body positivity is flourishing and the societal pressures (for women, especially) to look a certain way are increasingly acknowledged and refuted, dance still seems to be…
Madhavi Mudgal's Vistar Darbar Festival 26 November, 2019 Sadler's Wells, London Reviewed by Donald Hutera Photos by Rehmat Rayatt There were two standing ovations on consecutive nights at the…
'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. This can be…
When I began transitioning into a dance career and learning contemporary dance, my ballet teacher refused to show any sequence more than once, demanding that we try and rebuild the…
Wednesday 15 April Studio 10, The Place, London. Seeta Patel is working with six dancers on her latest production, The Rite of Spring, premièring at Dance City, Newcastle on 9 May 2019, before a…
