Arts Council England ACE commissioned Courtney Consultancy in October 2019 to undertake a mapping exercise within the South Asian dance and music sector in England. The research would…’identify gaps, highlight…
What do an 85-year-old Methodist born in Grantham, a 43-year-old refugee from Sri Lanka and a 58-year-old Parsi born in Dar es-Salaam have in common? The answer is that they…
Niraj Chag is a hugely versatile and successful musician and composer who makes albums, film scores, and compositions for dance and theatre. On Monday 22 February he launched a new…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
