Sankari Mridha- A digital profile
Sanjeevini Dutta investigates what we can learn about a dancer from their digital presence. As a dancer myself, I know that one can discern the quality and strength of a…
Orpheus – Monteverdi and Jasdeep Singh Degun – A Rasika’s view
Orpheus Music by: Claudio Monteverdi and Jasdeep Singh Degun Opera North October – November 2022 Guest blog by Sudipta Roy, who is a student of Hindustani vocal music and a…
Divya Kasturi’s To Varnam With Love’ – another point of view
Image: Screenshot taken from trailer. Melodious singing by Divya heralded To Varnam With Love (30 September, 2021, The Place, London) as a spotlight highlighted a stepped podium on…
A response to Divya Kasturi’s ‘To Varnam with Love’
To Varnam With Love (30 September, 2021, The Place, London) was an evening of multimedia dance performance, exploring projection, props, lighting, music, spoken word, singing and a variety of different…
AO Global: The Road to Nine. Bisakha Sarker, blogpost 3: Karuna
The state of being we explored in the third week was Karuna, ‘Compassion’, with two very sensitive artists, contemporary dancer Gizem Aksu and photographer Nirvair Singh Rai. Aakash introduced Nirvair as…
Solidarity from the Kitchen.
It is said that January in the UK is the time when many are at their lowest ebb, the nights are long, dark and cold and spring seems far away.…
#Akademi Chronicles – what can we learn?
Urged by the creator Shivaangee Agrawal to take some time to explore the Akademi Archives (a Heritage Lottery funded project), I grudgingly accepted the nudge. Once I began, I was…
A dip into #AkademiChronicles
A dip into the website drew me, via my own memories of having been a primary school parent, to the section on Schools. The projects were reminders of what education…
Dancing in the Kitchen- a disco with serious intentions
Creating a community of common interest while being immersed in something that gives pure pleasure, has been our experience of developing the Dancing in the Kitchen night with DJ Ritu.…