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…
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…