Caste Away: From Devotion to Heresy Prathiba Batley
30 August 2025 Robinson Theatre, Cambridge Reviewed by the Pulse Team The title is deep and its scope is ambitious. The opening film, first with the image of the revolving…
Line & Verse Review: Erasing Borders Dance Festival 2025, Day Two
Photos: Nir Arieli/Erasing Borders Dance Festival Day two of the Erasing Borders Dance Festival, presented by the Indo-American Arts Council, offered a rich interplay of classical rigor and contemporary storytelling.…
Line & Verse: Erasing Borders Dance Festival 2025, Day One
Photos: Nir Arieli/Erasing Borders Dance Festival The Erasing Borders Dance Festival Day, presented by the Indo-American Arts Council, opened with a diverse evening of Indian classical dance that highlighted both…
Arangetram: Reflections of a Dancer
Arangetram: Reflections of a Dancer Annapoorna Kuppuswamy 31 May 2025 Seven Arts, Leeds Photos: SAA-uk I will admit that when I was first asked to review Arangetram: Reflections of…
Drishti – The Gaze of the Beloved
Drishti – The Gaze of the Beloved The Hat Factory, Luton 19 July 2025 Presented by Kadam Dance Photos: Simon Richardson In celebration of the start of South Asian Heritage…
Garbh
Richmond Festival of Ideas Little Green, Richmond 22 June 2025 Report by Anita Chanda It was a lovely surprise discovering an entrancing and soulful dance performance on a sunny Sunday…
Astad Deboo – An Icon of Contemporary Indian Dance
Ketu H Katrak Published by Seagull Books (2024) Reviewed by Sanjeevini Dutta A biography of Astad Deboo, the father of Indian Contemporary Dance, has been written by his lifelong friend…
Rooh: Within Her – Pagrav Dance Company
ROOH: Within Her Pagrav Dance Company Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, London 25th April 2025 Pulse Dance Club review Image: Pari Naderi Our group found this dance-theatre work to be a…
Towards a British Natyam -Magdalen Gorringe
Towards a British Natyam Magdalen Gorringe Published by Berghahn, 2025 Reviewed by Sanjeevini Dutta The timing of Magdalen Gorringe’s book Towards a British Natyam happily coincides with the uplift South…
Dvanda – Amritha Jayakrishnan
Dvanda Amritha Jayakrishnan 6th April 2025 Bhavan, London. Dvanda, a themed solo bharatanatyam performance by Amritha Jayakrishnan, promised to be a show exploring the concept of duality that is…