Pulse in Conversation with Ranjana Ghatak
Ranjana is a Hindustani vocalist, who trains under Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty and is a full-time performer, teacher, dance accompanist and composer. The Odissi Ensemble is very fortunate to have danced…
Pulse in Conversation with DJ Ritu
The name of DJ Ritu is very familiar, even if we were not lucky enough to have experienced the heady Club nights of Kali and Kuch-Kuch that made her a…
The Stories of Our Elders: Akademi’s Oral History Project
How does a chat with a grandparent become material for movement? Finding a deeper meaning in the spoken word is the essence of Akademi’s Oral History dance project, entering its…
Towards a New Youth Movement
In August 2018 I was thrilled to have been offered the role of Artistic Associate of Yuva Gati, the South-Asian Dance strand of the Centre for Advanced Training (CAT). CAT is…
Supriya Nagarajan – singer, composer, synesthete.
New ideas and aesthetics inspire Supriya Nagarajan, classically-trained Carnatic vocalist, erstwhile bank manager, and founder of the Yorkshire-based arts organisation Mansamitra. Sanjeevini Dutta took the opportunity to find out more…
Secular Themes in Bharatanatyam: Ideas for an Inclusive Future – Part III
In the first two essays of this series, I presented the need for more secular themes in bharatanatyam and how we can find inspiration from ancient sangam poetry, which…
Secular Themes in Bharatanatyam: Ideas for an Inclusive Future Part II
In the first essay of this series, I presented my synthesis of the relevance of religion in bharatanatyam in relation to the present day multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multifaith audience, and…
The Currency of Caste: Arundhati Roy in Conversation with Ken Hunt
B.R. Ambedkar, principal architect of the Indian Constitution, had in 1936 prepared a presidential address for delivery at the annual conference of a Hindu reformist group, the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal…
Aakash Odedra and Hu Shenyuan In Conversation
Samsara : A major new international collaboration This year will see the pairing of two extremely virtuosic dancer-choreographers in a new dance production that reinterprets a classical Chinese epic. Hu Shenyuan…
Secular Themes in Bharatanatyam: Ideas for an Inclusive Future – Part I
Sangam, the earliest known literature from South India, provides an abundance of secular themes for the bharatanatyam dancer. In the first of a series of three articles on secular themes…
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