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.…
AO Global: The Road to Nine. Bisakha Sarker, blogpost 5: Veera (‘Courage’)
The exploration of the state of being ‘courage’, veera in Sanskrit, opened with renowned dance artist Aditi Mangaldas highlighting the gender bias in the popular perception of the word ‘courage’. In simple…
AO Global: The Road to Nine. Bisakha Sarker, blogpost 4: Sringar
The emotion / rasa that took us away on the fourth week of this journey was sringar. In terms of the state of being it was interpreted as ‘love’ or…
AO Global : The Road to Nine – blogpost 1: Surprise
The Road to Nine I have taken the first step of a journey that promises to be super exciting, passing through nine states of being, crisscrossing time zones, sharing a ZOOM…
End of an unusual year
On the last day of 2020, the editor Sanjeevini Dutta looks back on the year. 2020 is a year like no other we have known. We have read in history…
Dancer in Lockdown – On Practice
"...the ability to cultivate an inner space that has clarity, expansiveness and grace is the real goal of our practice." In the days before official lockdown, when people had begun…
How has dance helped you during the pandemic?
How has dance helped you during the pandemic? This question caught me off guard and I froze! The reason is that in my mind the expected answer would be ‘dance…
Ambiguity of Time
Pranita Choudhry has written this piece in response to our call-out for writers. RENOWNED DANCER AND ARTIST Mythili Prakashji in her interview with Pulse beautifully narrates the ambiguity of…
Bharatanatyam Hip Hop from New Jersey
Diksha Sharma, in the recent call-out for writers, sent Pulse a response to the article Old Stories for New Generations on New Jersey-based dancer Ishita Milli, written by Gemma Connell…
Lockdown Life / Captive Artist
Two contrasting views on the lockdown experience: life behind bars, or the retreat into the mind and the imagination? Cartoon_natyam Veena Basavarajaiah illustrates one angle while Nainika Mukherjee from Delhi writes…