GUIDE TO BEING A FREELANCE DANCER: Dance Companies
Thinking about starting your own dance company, or wondering why people do it? In Part 4, Shivaangee speaks to Kamala Devam and Subhash Viman Gorania on why they set up…
Chinnadevi – from dancer to Queen’ – A first-person perspective of a new production touring in London
Chinnadevi is new bharatanatyam dance piece created for performance in a London temple: ahead of the performance of Chinnadevi on 30 November at the London Sri Murugan Temple, Chamu Kuppuswamy fills…
Ruminations
Ruminations held on 15 October 2019, was a look back by Akademi, South Asian Dance in the U.K., at its forty years of existence - 1979 to 2019. The beautiful…
GUIDE TO BEING A FREELANCE DANCER: How to Make Social Media Work For You
This series is designed to demystify the professional dance career and illustrate the ins and outs of working as a freelance dancer in the UK. Each part of the series…
GUIDE TO BEING A FREELANCE DANCER: Applying For Funding
In Part 3, Shivaangee speaks to Seetal Kaur and Arts Council England, who share their expert insights on applying for funding. This series is designed to demystify the professional dance…
Seeta Patel- On Weight of an Iconic Score
Seeta Patel is spearheading some of the most exciting bharatanatyam developments in the UK. She spoke to Shivaangee Agrawal about her work, about fear, about education. The Rite of Spring…
In Conversation with Mira Kaushik, Director of Akademi
The task of putting South Asian dance on the map of London and the UK was a tall order. When Pushkala Gopal, dancer and former Director of the Academy of Indian…
GUIDE TO BEING A FREELANCE DANCER: Managing Your Training
In Part 2, Shivaangee speaks to Sooraj Subramaniam who shares his top tips for taking care of your body and practice. This series is designed to demystify the professional dance…
Provocation: “The Technical Standards of Dance Achieved in the UK Do Not Match Those of India”
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…
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. This can be…
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