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…
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…
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…
Bharatanatyam dancer and Peak District National Park Ranger Chamu Kuppuswamy tells us of how she is combining her twin passions. Photos: Credit: Simon Richardson | Location: Michael's Folly, Hertford…
IndianRaga is the brainchild of US-based Sriram Emani, who was fired by the vision of bridging the classical arts with popular forms to engage the next generation. In a Ted…
A Suitable Boy, the BBC One adaptation of Vikram Seth’s epic novel of post-Independence India, stepped into the Sunday evening slot on our TV screens in late July. Among the large cast…
When it comes to arts in lockdown, all artists have pushed themselves beyond their comfort zone into the precarious world of technology. Topping in scale and ambition is the vision…
Jahnavi Harrison talked to dancer, teacher and award-winning choreographer Nina Rajarani as she prepared to present her new duet with Y. Yadavan to mark Srishti's Silver Jubilee in 2016. We are sharing this…
Image: Simon Richardson Dance and Society In the third of our articles in this series, Sammitha Sreevathsa raises the question of who defines our ideas of beauty. …
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival would have opened this week but for the pandemic. Among those due to perform was Amina Khayyam Dance Company, with two works at two venues. These are…
