2018: Recognitions
It has been a bumper year for the South Asian dance community. We congratulate those recognised in the Honours bestowed by the Queen; and reflect on the achievements of a number…
BBC Young Dancer – South Asian Dance Category Finals
Friday 19 April 2019 It’s eight o’clock and I’m in front of the TV with a dosa dinner to catch the first of the BBC Young Dancer category finals –…
Gauri and Sujatha Copyright Rehmat Rayatt-Sohal
Darbar- Reflections
The second dance Darbar Festival at Sadler's Wells provides some food for thought The second Darbar Festival (24-26 November 2018) concluded on Sunday evening at the national dance house, Sadler’s Wells, having…
The World of Books
Dancer Sooraj Subramaniam bemoans how 'adult life' and social media distract him from the total immersion of a good book. I state the obvious: books draw you into their own…
Reflections on Darbar 2017
Magdalen Gorringe, bharatanatyam dancer and PhD scholar attended as many concerts at Darbar as she could manage with her commute from Birmingham. For the first time this year, the longstanding…
Hot Under the Collar
Dancer Sooraj Subramaniam is unsettled by the popular and potent Childish Gambino video, 'This is America'. How does one explain the urgency in movement? What is it that makes us…
The Aah factor…
A moment of suspension, the calm before the storm...Sooraj gives a poetic description of the gathering and focussing of energy before its release in a movement we will all recognise.…
The Editor’s Blog
In her first Editor's Blog, Sanjeevini Dutta welcomes you to our new website Dear Reader With this website we have created a digital space to assemble and project the excellent…
Identity Crisis
'I am an identity crisis that's been happening across three continents.' – Sooraj Subramaniam, I am an identity crisis that's been happening across three continents. I am dosha and kootaan, avial…
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