Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company 2 October 2025 Mayflower Studios, Southampton Ranjini Nair, dance scholar and kuchipudi practitioner, reflects on her first experience of watching the work of Shobana Jeyasingh live. …
Clay, cues and cardboard houses: A day in the double life of a Performer-director By Vidya Thirunarayan Artistic Director, Thirunarayan Productions www.vidyathirunarayan.com Photos: Robert Golden HOLY DIRT premiered…
In India, dance is not merely performed; it is lived. It seeps into the body through ritual, mythology, familial memory, and collective inheritance. As an odissi dancer rooted in India's…
Over the past few months, one of my favourite thinking dancers/dancing thinkers, Dr Apoorva Jayaraman has been writing what she describes as a spontaneous series on Instagram. She calls these…
Saturday 14th September 2024 MAC, Birmingham By Hiten Mistry As I entered the Midlands Arts Centre I was swept up by the excitement of guests, artists, and friends, echoing…
Image: Kattam Katti (above) SEVENS (below) from Instagram company publicity As the performance season in the UK directs us towards pantos and Christmas carols, South Asian dancers have been looking…
One of the richest experiences of holidaying in India, and here I refer to my home city of Bombay, is the exchange with taxi drivers of the yellow and black…
At Pulse we have been discussing the role of the reviewer: is it to judge, comment, provide feedback and improvements, or to help audiences interpret and to spark their interest?…
Aunusthan – A celebration of neo-classical Indian dance and Music Pagrav Dance Company 10th January 2024 The Lowry, Salford Aunusthan began with the sounds of the sarangi played by Satwinder…
Prabha Atre (13 September 1932 – 13 January 2024) My introduction to Prabha Atre was online. I had not heard her or indeed heard of her for the first forty…
