Hemantika Festival-Sujata Banerjee Dance Company
Arts Depot, London 10 November 2024 Reviewed by Sanjeevini Dutta & Stacey Prickett The annual Hemantika Festival produced by Sujata Banerjee Dance Company (SBDC) is in its ninth edition and…
Aakash Odedra Company, Songs of the Bulbul
Songs of the Bulbul Aakash Odedra Company Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Reviewed by Donald Hutera on August 9, 2024 Photo: Kuldeep Goswami Aakash Odedra's new solo has the distinction of being…
MEHEK – Aakash Odedra Company/Aditi Mangaldas Company
MEHEK Aakash Odedra Company / Aditi Mangaldas Company Friday 12 April 2024 Sadler’s Wells, London Reviewed by the Pulse Dance Audience Club Mehek was a textured experience formed by set, lighting,…
The Making of MEHEK – Aditi Mangaldas
Kathak dancer and choreographer Aditi Mangaldas has established an international reputation for excellence of technique and aesthetics and for breaking new ground in the themes she has tackled, from feminine…
Samsara – Aakash Odedra Company
Samsara Aakash Odedra Company Sadlers Wells, 18 October 2022 Reviewed by Pranav Yajnik Photo: Nirvair Singh Rai Samsara opens with Hu Shenyuan, liquid-limbed and bare-bodied under a wash of…
Webinar on Banyan Tree Films – Circle of Dance – The Blossom
Webinar to discuss the films in the series Banyan Tree – Circle of Dance: The Blossom. Thursday 29 September 6.30 – 8 pm Join a panel from the dance world to…
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…
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…