Soldiers of the Empire
Soldiers of the Empire Annapurna Indian Dance Nehru centre 2 July 2018 Reviewed by Anna Kuppuswamy Dancers representing the various classical dances of India solemnly walked through the…
Soldiers of the Empire Annapurna Indian Dance Nehru centre 2 July 2018 Reviewed by Anna Kuppuswamy Dancers representing the various classical dances of India solemnly walked through the…
A profile of Kali Chandrasegaram by Donald Hutera If words are clues to understanding how a person thinks and functions in the world, there are a few key phrases that pop…
Borderline Royal Court Theatre 31st May 2018 Written by Hanif Kureishi | Directed by Kully Thiarai Reviewed by Ayndrilla Singharay Part of ‘Retracing Our Footsteps’, three nights of play readings…
Magdalen Gorringe, bharatanatyam dancer and PhD scholar attended as many concerts at Darbar as she could manage with her commute from Birmingham. For the first time this year, the longstanding…
Dancer Kali Chandrasegaram found his teacher Shankar Kandasamy’s performance at the Bhavan Centre (7 May 2018) brought memories flooding back. Shankar Kandasamy was one of my dance teachers, around twenty…
Dancer Sooraj Subramaniam is unsettled by the popular and potent Childish Gambino video, 'This is America'. How does one explain the urgency in movement? What is it that makes us…
Agathi 10th June 2018 Bhavan Centre Reviewed by Annapoorna Kuppuswamy On a day when a refugee ship with hundreds of people was refused permission to dock, watching Agathi was a…
Odissi dancer Sushmita Pati is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Kala The Arts, the organisation she set up and directs based in Basingstoke, Hampshire. To mark the occasion, she has mounted a modest…
A moment of suspension, the calm before the storm...Sooraj gives a poetic description of the gathering and focussing of energy before its release in a movement we will all recognise.…
The Troth Akademi and Gary Clarke Saturday 5 May 2018 Alchemy Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London Reviewed by Nicholas Minns Gary Clarke’s choreographic adaptation of The Troth at…