Suhaee Abro – one who must dance
At a recent gig in Camden Town presented by Insaan Culture Club, the Pakistani folk singer Arieb Azhar and band had an unusual addition- that of a whirling spirit who…
Dance Dialogues – Dancer Profiles
Sadlers Wells and Kadam Dance place contemporary and classical South Asian dance on an equal footing in the Dance Dialogues project running currently at Hymers College in Hull. Three bharatanatyam-trained artists…
From the 12th to the 21st Century: Gita Govinda Symposium
Gita Govinda Symposium Ananda Odissi Arts Festival University of Bedford 26 August 2019 Photos: Simon Richardson The Gita Govinda (Song of Govinda) is a work composed in Sanskrit by the 12th-century…
Provocation: Bharatanatyam is not best suited to telling contemporary stories.
We are putting this question to a series of bharatanatyam artists. Shane Shambhu Njaan ippol Malayalathil ezhathiyaal ningalku vallatthum manasallago? Do you understand what I’ve written? Anything? It’s Malayalam (albeit…
Maker and Shaker: Shane Shambhu
Shane Shambhu was the dancer featured on the first cover of the revamped Pulse magazine in Summer 2008. During the ten years since he was interviewed for that issue, this dancer-choreographer, actor…
Akram Khan- On Curating Darbar Festival
Akram Khan talks to Parbati Chaudhury, kathak artist, about curating the dance programme of the Darbar Festival. Q. Off the back of last year’s Darbar, what vision did you set out with…
#MeToo, one story, many stories
Pulse has deleted all references to the identity of the abuser and victim in the article. It is an important cautionary case to share for the benefit of the dance…
Not Appropriation…
Alain de Botton in The Art of Travel suggests that we are attracted to foreign cultures not because of their exotic content but because they express some aspect of one’s…
The Loom of Life- Malavika Sarukkai’s Thari
Malavika Sarukkai’s new show, Thari, will be the opening dance production at the refurbished Queen Elizabeth Hall in London's Southbank Centre. The artist talks to Editor Sanjeevini Dutta about the creative process. Malavika Sarukkai’s new production…
Between the Lines – Re-thinking Tagore for the 21st Century
By 2014, the UK had seen many performances and events marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore in 1861. Pulse was prompted to bring together writers, singers,…