Pravaas- Akademi
Pravaas- Akademi, Drummond Street, London, 29 July 2023 Reviewed by the Pulse dance audience club The props, the costumes and the movement of the protagonists vividly evoked the journey of…
#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…
Akademi Dance Film Festival 2021
Akademi Dance Film Festival 2021 Friday and Saturday 19th & 20th March 2021 Reviewed by the Pulse Dance Audience Club This was the first ever Screen Dance Festival of new…
The Stories of Our Elders: Akademi’s Oral History Project
How does a chat with a grandparent become material for movement? Finding a deeper meaning in the spoken word is the essence of Akademi’s Oral History dance project, entering its…
Ruminations
Ruminations held on 15 October 2019, was a look back by Akademi, South Asian Dance in the U.K., at its forty years of existence - 1979 to 2019. The beautiful…
In Conversation with Mira Kaushik, Director of Akademi
The task of putting South Asian dance on the map of London and the UK was a tall order. When Pushkala Gopal, dancer and former Director of the Academy of Indian…
Reflection on Sadir, a forgotten heritage
Dance Dialogue: Glittering Tales: Dancing for Rajahs, Nawabs, and the Officers of the Raj Swarnamalya Ganesh and Chitra Sundaram 25 June 2019 Asia House, London SADIR: Dancing for the Rajahs,…
The Troth
The Troth Akademi and Gary Clarke Saturday 5 May 2018 Alchemy Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London Reviewed by Nicholas Minns Gary Clarke’s choreographic adaptation of The Troth at…